The Ultimate Guide to the Old School Magic Format
Product fatigue. Universes Beyond fatigue. Just plain old fatigue. It happens. If you long for a simpler time, the Old School format might just be for you.
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Junk Tokens in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
If 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...
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Type-Changing in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Changing 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.
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Fortify in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Best 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...
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Ranked: All 12 Magic the Gathering Video Games
Wizards 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...
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Gravestorm in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Future 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...
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Daybound and Nightbound in MTG: Rules FAQ
Daybound 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.
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Morbid in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Morbid’s a simple mechanic that cares about creature deaths, making it a perfect ability for the Golgari color pair.
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Prototype in MTG: Rules, FAQ, and Best Cards
Prototype 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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Domain in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Domain is a threshold mechanic that counts the types of basic land you have in play. Let’s delve into domain’s, uh, domain, and explore just what makes it click.
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Blocking in Magic: All Your Rules Questions Answered
What’s the good of having an army of monsters at your disposal if you can’t use them as cannon fodder to protect yourself? It’s what they’re for, right? Blocking.
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Craft in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan just arrived, and it brought the mechanic craft alongside it. Craft is a really crazy and dense mechanic, with a lot going on. Whether you’re going to the set’s prerelease, or you’re playing Standard on MTG Arena, or...
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