Living Metal in MTG: Rules, FAQ, and Best Cards
Universes Beyond allows WotC to introduce different franchises to MTG. With The Brothers’ War and its artifact theme, the Transformers IP got its own Beyond treatment on 13 new cards.
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Decayed in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Magic is well-known for designing creatures that fall into one of two camps: either the weaker, more expensive card with a great ability, or the cheaper, over-statted creature with a drawback. Decayed falls into that latter category...
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Recover in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Recover probably belongs to that group of Magic: The Gathering mechanics that sounded better in the designers’ minds. It’s still a quintessentially Magic-al mechanic, though, since it’s all about using your graveyard as a resource.
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Clash in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Clash is a mechanic often remembered as a failure, if it’s remembered at all, more than a dozen years after the last clash cards were printed. But Mark Rosewater’s elegy for the mechanic is more nuanced: “I consider it a noble but failed...
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Dracula Cards in MTG: What Are They and Where to Get Them
Hello, planeswalkers! I hope you have your bags packed because we’re on our way to Transylvania. MTG has created wonderfully detailed worlds, histories, and characters, but it doesn’t hurt sometimes to rely on well-known story material. With all...
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Reinforce in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Magic mechanics can get a little confusing sometimes, so we’re calling in the reinforcements. It’s me, I’m the reinforcements. Get it, reinforce-ments? I come prepared with rules knowledge and jokes!
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Celebration in MTG: Rules, FAQ, and Best Cards
Everyone has a kind of candy they don’t like. And if I offer you one, you might just take a look and say, “Ah, no thanks.” But if I toss a bunch of candy in a piñata and it all spews to the ground on the vessel’s dramatic destruction, you might...
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Undaunted in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Cost reduction mechanics like delve and affinity are usually very exploitable and devastating to competitive MTG, often leading to cards and decks being banned. Undaunted is one of those mechanics, but it has a clear limit to cost reduction: the...
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MTG Arena Championships: What They Are and How to Qualify
With the return of the Pro Tour and the revamped system for organized play there are a lot of new sub-systems and qualification paths. They’re easy to mix up, which is why I’m going to help you by breaking down the layers of tournament play...
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Ascend in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Magic is full of mechanics. Some are evergreen due to their popularity, and some are cool but aren’t supported thoroughly, like ascend.
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Champion in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
“Champion” is a word that has many different meanings, but two of them are the most well-known and the ones that relate to Magic. But there are only a handful of cards that have the champion ability, and that’s what we’re going to focus on...
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Afterlife in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
The city-plane of Ravnica is ruled by ten guilds. Each of them represents both a combination of colors and an aspect of Ravnican society. So let’s talk about the Orzhov Syndicate and one of the abilities associated with them.
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