Coin flip decks tap into this randomness, but they also want to harness it, tipping the scales in their favor any time they can. It’s almost like creating a handicap for yourself, then finding a way to cheat out of it.
Read moreAre you a Magic player that loves an interactive play style that keeps your opponents on their toes? With sneaky battle tactics that can make your opponents start second guessing their blocking decisions, running a ninja Commander deck makes for...
Read moreWe’ll look at six decks that have been doing very well in MTGO’s Challenge 32 in the last few days.
Read morePicture this. It’s Magic Arena, Explorer or Historic, and you’re on some kind of aggro deck. They’re angels. You’ve kept up thus far, but they just dropped Righteous Valkyrie and Resplendent Angel with a Bishop of Wings out. The angel on your...
Read moreEver since Innistrad introduced double-faced cards to resounding success, MTG designers knew that they could push the envelope further and throw in some wild innovations. After all, if people loved a card with two different faces, what else can...
Read moreAfter dropping like stones from their pre-order prices (like it’s the case for most cards from all sets; such is the eternal cycle of hype!), two saga creatures from Final Fantasy x MTG have rebounded from their rock-bottom lows and...
Read moreWhen you’ve got a deck of 40 cards and 23 nonlands, only so many of those are really strong, but such is the way of Limited play on Arena or paper. So who does the winner end up being?
Read moreJohnny likes to win, but while doing their own unconventional stuff, like moving counters and tokens around or creating engines out of different cards. Here are my picks for some of the best Johnny cards in Magic.
Read moreLifelink is an incredible evergreen keyword that radically changes combat math, especially when connected to a combat trick. But we’re interested in creatures with lifelink today, the ones that’ll gain us some life while chipping away at our...
Read moreUtility lands function like spells and lands in that they give you a way to use your mana, mitigating the effect of flood since you can do something and helping ease mana screw because you can slip in a few extras. My favorite utility lands are...
Read moreCommander has long been a place friendly to the idea of making tribal decks, now called typal, that stack a bunch of creatures of the same type together to head off to fight. It’s a classic fantasy trope, straight out of The Hobbit’s Battle of...
Read more“Temur Good Stuff” is a strategy as old as time, and one that the color combination can easily support. Today I’d like to introduce you to every Temur commander in Magic and offer a sample decklist to get your brain turning and inspire you to...
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