All 8 Circles of Protection in Magic Ranked
Gather round once again, friends, and let’s tell the tale of an ancient, initially incomplete cycle of cards.
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Cleave in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
MTG has tons of ways to remove a card from the field. You can bounce it back to its owner’s hand, destroy it, exile it, or even wrath the whole board away. But what about removing actual text from a card? It sounds like a design idea from...
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Mirage Spoilers and Set Information
Although I started playing Magic during Ice Age, that was my first real relationship with a card game. It was scary and confusing at times. I had to grapple with my crush’s complicated past, you know, mistakes like Fallen Empires or banding.
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All 17 Thopters in Magic Ranked
What exactly is a thopter? And what makes a good one? Let’s have a look and figure it out!
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Odyssey Spoilers and Set Information
Odyssey is the set that made us care about the graveyard, count the number of cards there, cast some spells from the graveyard thanks to the flashback mechanic, and much more. Today I’m covering the story of those 350 cards, why you should care...
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All 47 Heroic Cards in Magic Ranked
Achilles was an impressive warrior, but that ankle tho. Hercules, strong as can be, was also a haughty son of a gun. His Twelve Labors were mostly to purge the blood poison from *checks notes* committing a bunch of murders. It’s this flavor of...
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Gatecrash Spoilers and Set Information
Gatecrash is the second set in the Return to Ravnica block, preceded by the titular Return to Ravnica, and followed by Dragon’s Maze, the final set in the block. While the original Ravnica block featured four guilds per set, Gatecrash and Return...
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The 30 Most Expensive and Must-Have Cards in March of the Machine
There are always multiple angles to examine in a new Magic set. There’s the gameplay aspect, there’s all the new lore that is introduced to Magic’s story, and of course, there’s the financial side.
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Invasion Spoilers and Set Information
MOM is far from the first time Phyrexia has posed a threat. Before New Phyrexia and the modern age of Magic, Yawgmoth’s original Phyrexians threatened the safety of the Multiverse and especially Dominaria.
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Plane Cards in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Imagine all your friends are planeswalkers, and your deck of MTG cards represents the spells you can cast. It’s valid to think that in each plane the rules of engagement are different, right?
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Sick of Getting Countered? Here Are 8 Ways to Easily Beat Counterspells in Magic
In my work at a local store I see a lot of newer players come across counterspell decks and not know what they could do differently. Today I’m going to do my best to simply answer a few questions that come up.
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Phenomenon Cards in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Thanks to the reprint of plane cards in March of the Machine Commander, plane cards and the Planechase format have been given a lot of attention lately. Planechase is a MTG variant introduced in 2009, with special phenomenon cards that were added...
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