Prepare in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Prepare is one of the bigger mechanics in Secrets of Strixhaven, one that features on 46 cards across the main set and the precons, and makes up a large portion of the Limited landscape.
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Repartee in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Repartee is the mechanic for aspiring Silverquill students who want their words to sting just as badly as a Prismari mage’s fire magic. It draws on a subtheme from the OG Strixhaven to give the second round of Silverquill cards a more distinct...
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Opus in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
The Prismari school in Secrets of Strixhaven gets a mechanic similar to magecraft in opus, which also cares about casting instants and sorceries, and it loves when you get flamboyant with expensive ones.
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The Complete List of Serialized Cards in Magic: the Gathering
There’s no denying it: The hottest of hot cards these days are all serialized. In any set that includes them, they make up the most expensive cards that you can pull. In just a couple of years there’s been multiple iterations, and they’ve...
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Meld in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Meld is a mechanic first bought into Magic with Eldritch Moon as one of the methods to evoke the eldritch horrors that Emrakul was raining down upon Innistrad in that set. Well, it came back in The Brothers’ War, and the cards are pretty...
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Companions in Magic: Rules and FAQ
Some people love the challenges and the extra power companions can bring, while other players get tired of battling a Lurrus or Yorion deck again and again. Today we’re going over all there is to know about companion rules, the power level...
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Oil Counters in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Phyrexia: All Will Be One was an even more distorted take on Scars of Mirrodin/New Phyrexia. Phyrexians took the plane of Mirrodin after all. Oil counters were one of the key features of this set.
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Protection from Everything in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Protection is a mechanic from MTG’s past that’s hard to grasp, and it’s rarely used these days. But Commander players often have to deal with its evolved version: protection from everything.
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Time Travel in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Time travel is a mechanic that lets you mess with that clock, and make it run slower or faster depending what you need. It accelerates or dampers time counters.
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The Ultimate Guide to Kingdoms EDH
One of the things that has kept me so hooked up on Magic for over a decade is its wide range of possibilities and homebrewing. There’s an absurd number of options for you to pick from, but even beyond that, it’s a very malleable game. It takes...
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Trample in MTG: Rules, History, and FAQ
There are some keywords in Magic that those of us who’ve been playing for years can hardly remember ever not knowing how they work, while newer players may get confused in the details. Trample is a great example of this, and today I give you an...
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Toxic in MTG: Rules and FAQs
Phyrexians, the greatest threat to the known Multiverse, showed their claws and teeth in Phyrexia: All Will Be One, where they had lots of weapons at their disposal. One of those was toxic, which relates to infect, a previous Phyrexian-themed...
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