When you think of Magic pushing into new design territory, you probably weren’t expecting them to simply up the ante on an already established mechanic, were you? Modern Horizons 3 is adding a new realm of triggered card advantage with three...
Read moreAs weird as it sounds, in Magic sometimes you’d rather have a card in your graveyard than in your hand. The main culprits are [REPLACE CARD]Golgari Grave-Troll[/REPLACE] for dredge 6, Griselbrand alongside Animate Dead, or Arclight Phoenix in...
Read moreThe Lost Caverns of Ixalan was Magic: The Gathering’s final Standard-legal release for 2023. It took us back to the Mesoamerican-inspired plane of pirates, merfolk, vampires, and dino-riding humans, with an underground twist on top.
Read moreThe Assassin’s Creed franchise spans 16 years and around 25 individual videogames and spin-offs. The new Assassin’s Creed x MTG crossover set brings a total of 37 brand-new legendary creatures representing some of the series’ most iconic...
Read moreAssassin’s Creed isn’t too far-fetched for a Universes Beyond product, but there’s something comical about seeing historical figures like Sokrates and Cleopatra on our Magic cards. Leonardo da Vinci even gets his own card and an entire Secret...
Read moreThe modal gates have been opened, and many sets have printed double-faced lands. MTG now has more than 100 cards that have a land as one of their sides, and I’ve got the 48 best.
Read moreThere are many thresholds in life and MTG, like what you’d pay for a deck, or the number of energy drinks before you can no longer function properly. All these thresholds exist, but let’s take a closer look at the threshold ability word in...
Read moreAnother year of Magic, another new booster type hitting the markets. What, you thought we were gonna get it easy after the Play boosters announcement? Let’s dissect what a Beyond booster has to offer and compare it to the well-established...
Read moreThere are a bunch of reprints in Assassin’s Creed, headlined for me by Onslaught’s Cover of Darkness, Exodus reprint Reconnaissance, and of course, Black Market Connections. I’m also curious if Propaganda becoming new-to-Modern will...
Read moreAll Magic players love land destruction, right? Reanimating Sundering Titan, casting Armageddon, and powering out Balance with a bunch of fast mana are all great ways to make friends.
Read moreMagic has plenty of forever mechanics, the evergreen abilities you see in every Magic set and recognize at a glance. Then it has its objectively bad mechanics, like daybound/nightbound and ante. But there’s a third category of mechanics that lies...
Read moreThe Modern Horizons sets have been contentious since their very inception, printing cards directly into Modern while bypassing Standard. We’ve now had two and a half of them (if you count Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth at all) and are...
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