What if I told you there’s something even more dangerous than counterspells in Magic: The Gathering? Today, we’re diving into target-changing spells, cards with the potential to wreak havoc on the battlefield for just a small amount of mana.
Read moreAdding new mechanics and styles of spells to Magic at this point is pretty hit or miss. There are some huge successes like sagas, and then there are some that just kind of peter out like the party mechanic. Adventures currently exist somewhere in...
Read moreTokens are created in every color in Magic, but what those tokens are and how they’re created changes in the different parts of the color pie. Blue tends to make smaller creature tokens, and usually as an incidental part of a larger spell.
Read moreCommander is a game with many strategies under its belt, one of which uses blink commanders. These powerful entities love enter the battlefield effects and recurring them to bury your opponents in raw card advantage.
Read moreAlthough there have been cards called “sorcerer” since the beloved Sorceress Queen in Arabian Nights, only now with Lorwyn Eclipsed are sorcerers an official creature type in MTG.
Read moreLands don’t really have a color in traditional MTG. But in Commander, a card’s color identity is determined by the colors of pips on the cards, which restricts lands to the color identity of the deck’s commander. So “white” lands are just lands...
Read moreEdicts are a classic form of removal dating back to Diabolic Edict. It’s a powerful form of interaction that circumvents several defensive abilities and can ruin strategies like Voltron that depend on a single large creature. But which of these...
Read moreMagic players seem to collectively agree that cards and sets have become more complicated than they used to be. There’s more text on cards these days, they interact with each other in complex ways, and some even have six cards’ worth of text to...
Read moreCounterspells are a core part of blue strategies, and the cheaper they are, the better. But what if I told you there’s a subset of counterspells that can be cast without spending any mana?
Read moreCard draw is fantastic as it gives you plenty of spells and the chance to hit your land drops. If your EDH decks need a little extra card draw, what not put it in the command zone so you have access to it every game?
Read moreSecrets of Strixhaven officially releases today, and hype for the new elder dragons is making the secondary MTG market go brrrrrr.
Read moreIn addition to having an extremely limited card pool of Standard-legal sets from Fourth Edition to Scourge, Premodern has a small ban list aimed at the most powerful strategies that maintains the identity of the format.
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