While the simple act of fetching a land from your library to the battlefield can fix your mana, the best targets for your fetch abilities enter untapped or have additional effects when they hit the field.
Read moreBlack and green combine to create some of the most relentless combos in Magic: The Gathering, mixing resource recursion with sacrifice engines that just won’t quit.
Read moreThe best black cantrips are either cheap or offer value beyond the cantrip itself. These cards see play in a variety of formats as a way to accelerate a game plan without giving up card equity.
Read moreEsper decks often lean controlling, with lots of removal and card draw, but the shard includes aggressive strategies, token strategies, even reanimation and artifacts. If it falls under the purview of white, blue, or black, an Esper deck can...
Read moreAzorius is the control player’s dream color combination and one of my favorites in all of Magic.
Read morePicking a commander can be tricky. You need to figure out what kind of strategy you want to play, how expensive and powerful you want your deck to be, and what colors you want to play in the first place. Today I showcase the Ravnica guild of...
Read moreImagine your opponent kept a two-land hand filled with 3-drops just waiting to draw that third land. You’re on the play, and on turn 3 you nuke their tapped dual land with Stone Rain.
Read moreJeskai decks often dabble with spellslinging, artifacts, or token production, and with 11 Commander precons in print, there’s some real competition within the color trio’s decks.
Read moreEnchantment creatures have both the enchantment and creature types in their typeline. The most defining characteristic of these cards is that they’re considered, for all positive and negative purposes, enchantments and creatures at the same...
Read moreGolgari decks often dip into graveyard and sacrifice synergies, though a few prominent creature types like squirrels and elves have been built into MTG’s Golgari precons.
Read moreA classic iconic card is Prodigal Sorcerer, affectionately known as Tim. Tim was the first pinger, or creature that tapped to deal damage. But the term “pinger” has grown to encompass a broader range of cards than in Tim’s day.
Read moreArtifacts in Magic: The Gathering are the backbone of countless strategies. But what really makes artifact decks tick are the support cards behind the scenes, the ones that make your artifacts cheaper, stronger, or easier to recur.
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