Runes in MTG: History, Alternatives, and Rankings
I hope you’re having a good day and that nothing, er, “runes” it.
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The 40 Best Magic Color Pie Bleeds, Breaks, and Violations Ranked
The color pie is influenced both by the game’s lore and its mechanics. Each color represents a certain ideology, which is why some characters are aligned to a specific color of mana. More importantly for our purposes, each color also has certain...
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The Dark Spoilers and Set Information
The recent return to the age of the Brothers’ War and its long-lasting consequences has sparked some interest for the stories of Magic’s past. What better reason to revisit older sets and compare them to modern design and art standards.
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Avacyn Restored Spoilers and Set Information
Fear not, people of Innistrad! The big, flying, and good-aligned angels are coming to save the day, led by no one other than Avacyn herself now that she’s restored. Avacyn Restored is the set that concludes the original Innistrad block, which was...
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Weatherlight Spoilers and Set Information
Weatherlight was the third and final expansion released as part of Magic’s Mirage block. It set itself apart from the previous two sets in the block by focusing on the graveyard.
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The 79 Best EDH Precon Original Cards in Magic Ranked
Ikoria was when Commander products made the transition to what we now expect: a set of precons tied to premier set releases. The immediately preceding sets had planeswalker and brawl decks, but Ikoria shifted the Commander landscape to this day...
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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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