Thanks to March of the Machine, we now have a lot of interesting team-up commanders to build decks around. These new legendary creature mashups are almost like turning existing legends into partner commanders, but with the bonus that their...
Read moreThere are always multiple angles to examine in a new Magic set. There’s the gameplay aspect, there’s all the new lore that is introduced to Magic’s story, and of course, there’s the financial side.
Read moreWhen I started playing Magic in the Alara-Zendikar meta, I saw lots of decks I wanted to play that were Standard-legal, but there was a slight problem: they were pricy for a newcomer. Jund and vampires looked like great suggestions but I couldn’t...
Read moreMOM is far from the first time Phyrexia has posed a threat. Before New Phyrexia and the modern age of Magic, Yawgmoth’s original Phyrexians threatened the safety of the Multiverse and especially Dominaria.
Read moreYou’re playing a pretty straightforward Esper fliers deck, here. This is an aggressive deck that wants to get your opponents down to zero with a flying force that ignores any of their blockers.
Read moreImagine all your friends are planeswalkers, and your deck of MTG cards represents the spells you can cast. It’s valid to think that in each plane the rules of engagement are different, right?
Read moreIn my work at a local store I see a lot of newer players come across counterspell decks and not know what they could do differently. Today I’m going to do my best to simply answer a few questions that come up.
Read moreThanks to the reprint of plane cards in March of the Machine Commander, plane cards and the Planechase format have been given a lot of attention lately. Planechase is a MTG variant introduced in 2009, with special phenomenon cards that were added...
Read moreYou ever boot up a console game with a friend, start a split screen match, and find yourself giving them the stink eye a few minutes later? Did they really earn that kill or were they screen-peeking?
Read moreWe’re stepping into unknown territory once the dust has settled from the Phyrexian invasion, and the planes return to something like normality. But what is this set? What is it bringing to the game? Introducing MOM: The Aftermath.
Read moreThis wacky format originated back in 2009. Planechase is a supplementary set for multiplayer games of Magic, creating the Planechase format, where players duke it out across a variety of battlefields from across Magic’s story. It consists of four...
Read moreEverybody comes to a Commander table to play some powerful cards. A core tenet of the format is to play big, scary spells that are too slow for other formats like Modern and Legacy. What could be more fun than playing with your big splashy...
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