The Ultimate Guide to Value Vintage in MTG
Value Vintage is a community created MTG Constructed variant. This format aims to bring fresh air to the Constructed scene for players often priced out of normal Vintage.
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The Ultimate Guide to Cube in MTG
Cube is a wonderful way to play MTG with veteran players, or to teach drafting to newer players, or even reintroduce friends that want to get back into the game. It’s a format that lets you be the player, the designer, and the tester.
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The Complete List of MTG Arena Formats for 2026
MTG Arena has come a long way from the days when it first released, when Standard and Limited were pretty much your only options if you wanted to get a game in. We now have a lot of different formats, each with their own card pools, and it isn’t...
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The 34 Best 5-Color Commanders in Magic Ranked
Commander is something we touch on quite a bit, but I’m going in a bit deeper today on five-color commanders.
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The Ultimate Legacy Format Overview and Guide
While most players might have been put off by what happened, I was amazed. I loved seeing all of these new cards (well, old cards, but new to me) and what they could do in combination. From that moment on, I was hooked. I built my first Legacy...
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The Pauper Ban List: All 74 Cards Banned in Pauper
Even the most humble of formats like Pauper need tuning from time to time. Let’s go over all the banned cards in Pauper, from the most broken ones to the others that are just inappropriate for the game as a whole.
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The Ultimate Pioneer Format Overview and Guide
Hello again wizards of the world! Looking for new ways to play constructed Magic outside Standard or Historic? Well, look no further than Pioneer.
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The Ultimate Guide to MTG Arena Jump In!: Complete List and Rewards
Players had some criticism of Jumpstart on MTG Arena. Enter Jump In!, the second attempt at this style of format, and a much more impactful one that I think you definitely should play.
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The Ultimate Guide to Pauper Commander
While Magic has more than a few sanctioned formats, there’s no reason you shouldn’t make your own. That’s how Commander started, after all, and it’s a format that’s ripe for spinoffs that provide unique takes on a singleton format...
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The Ultimate Guide to Tiny Leaders
Looking for an alternative way to play Commander? While it’s more restrictive, it’s also funnier in some ways. Let’s dig in and discover all the secrets of Tiny Leaders!
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The Ultimate Guide to Drafting Peasant Cube
Let me introduce you Peasant Cube, a format in which you only play commons and uncommons. The gameplay is surprisingly deep and interesting, and some players enjoy it because you’re not losing to that bomb rare each game.
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The Ultimate Guide to Competitive Commander
Commander (and Magic in general) absolutely exploded over the last decade. Today I want to focus on cEDH, otherwise known as competitive Commander, and get you educated on what the format is, what makes it different from casual EDH, and how to...
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