What is The List in MTG? How Does The List Actually Work in 2025?
Lots of players find cards from an outside set in set boosters when opening them and wonder where they came from sometimes. The short answer? The List!
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Prowl in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Hello planeswalkers! I know you’re always on the prowl for great information. I needed to get out one terrible joke, and I promise it won’t happen again. Today we take a look at the uncommon mechanic, prowl. With a total of ten cards with the...
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Wilds of Eldraine Spoilers and Set Information
After the finale of the Phyrexian storyline in March of the Machine and then its Aftermath, we’re going to be returning to Eldraine for a second visit. This plane seems to be the location of story resets, as last time we were here was immediately...
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Boon in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Alchemy has been around on MTG Arena for some time now, and it’s started to settle into its little niche as the digital-only format where digital-only mechanics go to die. One of the mew mechanics, “boon,” is reminiscent of planeswalker emblems...
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Replicate in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Sometimes spell copying takes a Magic meta by storm, usually when there’s an extra turn spell to abuse. But if copying a spell is something you want, the burden of having to pack cards like Galvanic Iteration in your deck to enable those...
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Cipher in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Magic has a string of cards and mechanics that allow you to durably alter a creature after it’s already been cast. Cipher is one of those experiments that seems to have exhausted its narrow design space between under- and overpowered.
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Buyback in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
In Magic you’ll find yourself mana-flooded a fair amount, and buyback gives you a way to sink that extra mana into spells that can bury your opponent. There are also other means of paying buyback besides just extra mana, so let’s delve into this...
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All 17 Sunburst Cards in Magic Ranked
Some MTG mechanics are more popular and used more often than others. Sunburst is one of those mechanics that may not be used as often, especially because it works best in decks with more colors in them.
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Vanishing in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
One turn they’re here, and then poof they’re gone! Magic’s vanishing mechanic puts a time limit on your permanents and forces you to use time as a resource. But what makes vanishing unique, and how did it come about?
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Exodus Spoilers and Set Information
Exodus is a very, very old set – so old that, strictly speaking, Magic: The Gathering was a different game back then with literal different rules and card types that no longer exist.
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All 4 Black Battles in Magic Ranked
Battles are Magic’s newest card type, and who doesn’t love new stuff in Magic? OK, a lot of people may slightly dislike it, but they’ll come around eventually!
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Here’s How to Get Showcase Scrolls of Middle-earth Cards in Magic, Plus Are They Valuable?
Back to Middle-earth we go! With the Holiday Release comes a new card frame exclusive to the new and returning cards in the Lord of the Rings line-up. This “scroll frame” gives an old-timey parchment paper feel to the cards you know and love, but...
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