While a lot of blue’s spell power comes from instant speed cards like counterspells, the color also has quite a few great sorcery speed spells. It has everything from simple cantrips to splash extra turn and theft effects.
Read moreA knight levels his lance at his foe and charges across the plains. A fur-cloaked berserker swings her axe in wide arcs, cleaving through a horde of goblins. A rogue dons a magic cloak, and slips unseen past the guards. Heroes with fancy weapons...
Read moreIf your goal is to bury your opponents and raise the undead with bomb Grixis cards, these are the URB shard lands that can support those decks.
Read moreBack in 2007, the Lorwyn set introduced the very first planeswalker cards, and today we explore who they are, what made them special at the time, and more importantly, whether The Lorwyn Five are still any good now.
Read moreColorless planeswalkers are exactly what they sound like, which means they go in every deck and stand out from the many other planeswalker cards in MTG.
Read moreStax decks are powerful, disruptive decks that seek to impede your opponents’ game plan by throwing up lots of roadblocks. So if you want to build a stax deck and make your next Commander game night into a puzzle room of torment, who’s the best...
Read moreAbzan cards always seem to get the short end of the stick. From getting called “Junk” to having the least number of printed cards of any wedge of shard, Wizards doesn’t seem to like them. The injustice doesn’t end today, but we...
Read moreShadow decks were the next weenie/fliers deck when the Tempest block was released. The idea of attacking each turn with nigh-unblockable creatures and tempo-ing your opponent out of the game isn’t novel these days.
Read moreWhat is a tempo deck? How should you play one? And what should you do when facing one? All that’s to come.
Read more| Illustration by Dominik Mayer Mana fixing is among the most important elements of any Magic deck. It doesn’t matter how cool your spells are or what niche synergies inspired you if your spells are uncastable because your shoddy mana base relies...
Read moreEvery time WotC decides to make a mechanic that cheats on mana costs things go horribly wrong. First affinity, then Phyrexian mana, and now delve.
Read moreIf you’re a blue player trying to maximize your mana base without cutting spells, you might be interested in islandcyclers! Though, you’ll probably need a good excuse to squeeze most of these into the average deck.
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