What is The List in MTG? How Does The List Actually Work in 2024?
Lots of players find cards from an outside set in set boosters when opening them and wonder where they came from sometimes. The short answer? The List!
Read moreLots of players find cards from an outside set in set boosters when opening them and wonder where they came from sometimes. The short answer? The List!
Read moreHello planeswalkers! I know you’re always on the prowl for great information. I needed to get out one terrible joke, and I promise it won’t happen again. Today we take a look at the uncommon mechanic, prowl. With a total of ten cards with the...
Read more1997 saw one of the largest updates to Magic: The Gathering since the game’s inception four years earlier. The Fifth Edition Core Set, sometimes stylized as 5th Edition, was the thickest core set by a significant margin and would define the shape...
Read moreThey say that good things come in threes, and maybe that’s what MTG designers were thinking about in the early days of Magic when expansions like Legions used to be part of a three-set block.
Read moreAfter the finale of the Phyrexian storyline in March of the Machine and then its Aftermath, we’re going to be returning to Eldraine for a second visit. This plane seems to be the location of story resets, as last time we were here was immediately...
Read moreIn Magic’s history there have been some banger mechanics, some confusing ones, and even some mechanics that everybody absolutely hated. But there’s one mechanic that hasn’t seen any new cards in 12 years and was so crushing and one-sided...
Read moreSplit cards were introduced back in the Invasion block in 2000 and really changed the way that designers and players thought about MTG cards. Suddenly you have two different cards and effects on a single piece of cardboard, and although the new...
Read moreDrawing a card is one of the most powerful upsides any Magic card can have. There’s just nothing quite like drawing more cards, and white has a lot of spells with that and other effects.
Read moreThere are a lot of options when it comes to lands in Magic. Deciding which ones to include in your deck can be a difficult and time-consuming part of deck construction, but it’s also vitally important. In an effort to make things easier for you...
Read moreEven though we never got a proper story for Theros: Beyond Death, it’s safe to assume that the set was about Elspeth escaping from Theros’ underworld. And we got a new mechanic to go with this theme: escape.
Read moreAlchemy has been around on MTG Arena for some time now, and it’s started to settle into its little niche as the digital-only format where digital-only mechanics go to die. One of the mew mechanics, “boon,” is reminiscent of planeswalker emblems...
Read moreMagic is a game with almost 30 years on its back, and numerous abilities and effects have been introduced since its release. One of them is card copying, which is peculiar as it behaves very differently between permanents and spells.
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