Second spell payoffs are cards with a triggered ability that rewards you for casting your second spell in a turn. It’s becoming an increasingly more popular design space for archetypes in new sets.
Read moreI love the encounter with the Balrog in the movie and the books. I’m not “a servant of the Secret Fire,” but I can help to give you a preview of the wonderful scene cards from the new Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth set.
Read moreWith the release of The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth for MTG, we got something that we’ve never (quite) seen before in Magic before: a single, serialized version of a card. The One Ring is a key artifact from Tolkien’s world of...
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 moreIt shouldn’t be a surprise that many insect commanders in Magic interact with the graveyard in some way, whether they care about what’s in there, let you mill cards, or help you to reanimate creatures and lands.
Read moreMagic designers had previously used silver borders to indicate non-tournament legal cards, but that evolved into the much nuttier acorn stamp we see today.
Read moreSerpents have been lurking in Magic’s oceans almost since the beginning as enormous blue creatures, usually with some pretty big drawbacks. Thankfully, serpents have improved quite a bit since Magic’s early days.
Read moreDiscard is an integral part of Magic. It disrupts other strategies, like combo or control. Effects that make your opponents slowly discard cards are nice ways to get an edge in grindy matches or fight opponents with a hand full of cards.
Read moreEnchantments are an amazing card type. There are fewer ways to remove enchantments than creatures and so you compile formidable board states by layering enchantment after enchantment that impacts the board.
Read moreCascade is one of my favorite mechanics in Magic. It offers good value and interesting deckbuilding constraints. For example, you can’t really run countermagic with cascade cards. It can also lead to innovative deck designs.
Read moreAtla Palani, Nest Tender is a Naya commander that creates egg creatures and synergizes with eggs. Rukh Egg is, well, a creature with the “egg” creature type. There are some creatures in Magic that are also eggs, eleven to be precise...
Read moreHuman beings like to simplify things, and we tend to explain things in more streamlined terms. That’s where keyword actions come in handy for Magic.
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