Come, let me peer into your mind and read your future. Ahh, yes, I see it all so clearly. You’re about to learn about scrying in Magic: The Gathering. A great teacher and L1 judge will walk you through how it works, the history of the mechanic...
Read moreOn today’s MTG mechanics menu we have shroud.
Read moreGraveyard-based mechanics are often one of the most popular in MTG. There are tons of ways to interact with the graveyards and generate a long-term value. But what about ways to put them in the graveyard in the first place? Today I cover one of...
Read moreIn the post-nuclear apocalypse world of the Fallout universe, one of the many dangers you’re going to have to face as you venture out of your nice, safe vault is Radiation.
Read moreIf you’ve ever played the Fallout games before, you’ll no doubt remember picking up all kinds of junk from around the game world and (hopefully) making good use of it later on, whether by selling it, trading it or crafting with it. Whatever you...
Read moreChanging the text of a card in Alchemy has proven unpopular, and oracle text adjustments remain grump-inducing, but when a card lets us do that as part of Magic, we love it! It feels like cheating, but in a totally safe way.
Read moreBest cards, plural, may be overstating this keyword ability a bit: as it turns out, there’s exactly two cards with the fortify keyword in all MTG. The same is true for fortification, the artifact subtype associated with the fortify keyword...
Read moreWizards has made numerous forays into the video game market throughout Magic’s 30-year history. Some strived to capture the essence of paper Magic in a digital environment while others departed from the card game framework entirely in favor of...
Read moreFuture Sight was a super interesting set. The weird and chaotic lore of the set essentially allowed the game’s designers to come up with tons of weird and original mechanics, making it a sort of testing ground for ideas that might’ve...
Read moreDaybound and nightbound were met with criticism on release. While this looked like an innovation to the usual werewolf-transforming mechanics, it turned out to be a muddled mess that’s hard to understand in the first place.
Read moreMorbid’s a simple mechanic that cares about creature deaths, making it a perfect ability for the Golgari color pair.
Read morePrototype gives you options between casting a huge artifact creature for its full cost, or taking a hit on power to cast it for a cheaper, alternative cost. Its introduction in The Brothers’ War was splashy, and big, but how well have the...
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