The easiest way to generate black mana is tapping the basic Swamp to add 1 to your mana pool. But that doesn’t have to be your only black land! There are over 50 lands that produce black mana, and not all were created equal.
Read moreThere’s one thing every deck has, no matter the color or strategy: art. Today, our goblin crew is heading to painting class to decide which goblin art is the best ever printed.
Read moreOf Magic’s deck archetypes, control might be the most infamous. Who hasn’t played the long game against the deck that seems to have every answer to sweep your board state aside while drawing more cards than you can dream of?
Read moreSurveil has been in Magic since 2018, and I’ve always thought it weird that a term for spycraft is used to talk about manipulating your own deck. But that’s how it goes sometimes.
Read moreA one-shot card in MTG can take an opponent from any reasonable amount of life to dead with just one action (or sometimes the same action multiple times). This can be anything from attacking with an arbitrarily large creature to some sort of...
Read moreSometimes having the best of both worlds can be good or bad. But not when you have shapeshifter commanders! With so many creature types and many benefits from copying the creature that you or your opponents already have, you never know what...
Read moreIs that Ancestral Recall in a Standard set? Well, by name, yes. But mechanically? It’s a little more complicated than that.
Read moreSome people love the challenges and the extra power companions can bring, while other players get tired of battling a Lurrus or Yorion deck again and again. Today we’re going over all there is to know about companion rules, the power level...
Read morePhyrexia: All Will Be One was an even more distorted take on Scars of Mirrodin/New Phyrexia. Phyrexians took the plane of Mirrodin after all. Oil counters were one of the key features of this set.
Read moreGreen has lots to offer, with competitive but also fun commanders to choose from. Combine this with the color’s diverse range of cards, and you have a lot of options when trying to build a mono-green deck.
Read moreInsects are one of the most diverse groups of creatures in our real world, but how are they represented in Magic?
Read moreBlack is one of the MTG colors with the least mono-colored sagas (it nearly ties with blue for the last spot, and a long way from white), but it has a couple of the strongest sagas.
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