Today’s Commander has some qualities that take away from the original intent of the format. What used to be a casual place to use some of your underpowered pet cards is becoming increasingly competitive. Luckily, some players who miss the...
Read moreCommander’s success in both casual and competitive settings can be attributed to many of its qualities. The wide range of legal cards and how easy it is to get your hands on them are two of its best. But what else is there to know about this...
Read moreCommander is known as the most popular format of Magic. The possibilities are endless with far more than 3,000 legendary creatures to choose from to make your commander. With the partner mechanic, and its variants like choose a background and...
Read moreMagic’s a game that can be modified a lot as long as you and your friends all agree on the new rules. This open-endedness is a highly positive thing about Magic, as evidenced by the creation of the Dandân format.
Read moreOne of the things that has kept me so hooked up on Magic for over a decade is its wide range of possibilities and homebrewing. There’s an absurd number of options for you to pick from, but even beyond that, it’s a very malleable game. It takes...
Read moreMagic: The Gathering is designed to be played as a one-versus-one duel game, traditionally. However, that hasn’t stopped players and designers from creating dozens of ways to graft the rules onto a multiplayer format.
Read moreRotisserie drafting (ROTO) can be a very skill-testing, novel, and challenging experience to spice up Drafts, especially for Cubes.
Read moreThere are four differences between Premier and Traditional draft in MTG Arena: reward structure, match structure, the hand-smoothing algorithm, and most important of all, the different matchmaking systems.
Read morePai Gow is the perfect way to squeeze more value from your pack-opening experience. It’s a way to gamify cracking packs, adding a little touch of extra flair to your boosters.
Read moreTimeless is a Vintage-like format that allows you to play with any card added to MTG Arena. It’s a format that has an ever-evolving metagame and today you’ll learn all you need to know about it.
Read moreShared deck formats are niche micro formats with special rules, the most significant of which being that all players in the game pull from a single, shared deck. They’re essentially mini-games that test different aspects of the game in fun...
Read moreTwo-Headed Giant is almost exclusively played as a Limited variant, but much like Archenemy or Planechase, it’s an “add-on” that can be tied to any MTG format you like, Commander included. We’ll be exploring Sealed Two-Headed Giant for the most...
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