Where would the good guys be without the bad guys and their villainous plots? Let’s help spice up our Magic games by honing the most important ability of every self-respecting, moustache-twirling malefactor: setting up villainous choices to...
Read moreKnights have been part of MTG ever since the duality of White Knight and Black Knight in Alpha. Knights are usually a part of aggro and Boros decks, often bleeding into black. They pair well with equipment, and several recent knights have...
Read moreToday, I’ll cover the cards in Marvel Super Heroes that have the most probability of seeing play in Standard, a format with a very well-defined top tier of decks.
Read moreMolecule Man is the newest busted colorless commander from Marvel Super Heroes. He’s here to cast big stuff and win games, but is his ability a miracle, or is it too good?
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 moreScene Boxes are one of the newest twists in Magic: The Gathering’s product line, and they’re all about capturing big story moments in a way we’ve never really seen before. Instead of just cards in a box, you get a full panoramic scene —...
Read moreRed has the worst card draw of any color. The other four have creatures that enter and draw a card, or have card draw as a passive effect, or have an activated card drawing ability. But red? No dice.
Read moreThere are some cards missing from the new Marvel Super Heroes set: The X-men. This huge part of the Marvel franchise are suspiciously absent. Is this a clue towards a new X-Men set?
Read morePlanar Chaos is a small set and the second set in the Time Spiral block, one of MTG’s most beloved set blocks. It suggests an alternate reality of MTG, or what direction the multiverse and characters within could have taken with a few different...
Read moreMarvel Super Heroes gives us an MTG version of traditional comic book power-ups, and the design is slick. Let’s see how it works!
Read moreI kind of take it for granted how ubiquitous equipment is in modern Magic. With any evergreen mechanic you’re bound to see legendary creatures designed specifically to carry that mechanic into Commander’s ever-growing expanse of deckbuilding...
Read moreIn Magic, black is usually tied to grindy situations. It’s a color that relies on 1v1 removal, drawing cards by paying life, returning creatures from the graveyard to play, or win conditions that slowly drain your opponent’s life. Let’s see which...
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