Indestructible in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
There are plenty of mechanics and keywords in Magic. What about straight up just tanking damage and destruction? Enter indestructible.
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Survival in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Duskmourn: House of Horror is all about harrowing toys, impending doom, eerie rooms, and nasty things that want to eat you alive and chew you slowly, to extend your agony. But such a distressing Magic set needs some underdogs that, against all...
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Firebending in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Firebending is the elemental bending art dominated by the Fire Nation, the main antagonists in Avatar: The Last Airbender. In MTG terms, firebending is a very red ability associated with the production of red mana while you attack.
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Reconfigure in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Reconfigure is one of the main set mechanics of Neon Dynasty and acts as a means of giving life to equipment that you can turn into independent creatures. Reconfigure is a mechanic that takes a minute to understand, but it makes sense once you...
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Everything You Need to Know About Ability Words in Magic
Magic has a long history of sets and mechanics, and one way that they’ve varied cards over the years is by including ability words on cards and in designs. These offer both design and flavor benefits in the game, simplifying how you understand...
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Tribute in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Tribute ended up being kinda bad, and it was never reprinted outside of its debut set, Born of the Gods. But if you happen to love forcing foes into tough choices, and your deck happens to love +1/+1 counters, there might be something here for...
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Offspring in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Offspring is an additional cost you may pay when casting creatures with the offspring ability. If you choose to pay the additional cost, you get to make a 1/1 token copy of the “parent” creature when it enters.
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Expend in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
As it turns out, Bloomburrow’s raccoons are by and large the only critters in this Magic set that have stumbled upon a new mechanic: expend. Expend is a rules term that cares about how much mana you’ve spent casting spells each...
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Station in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
The station mechanic from Edge of Eternities adapts many of the ideas seen on vehicles and broadens them to function in a familiar yet rather unique way.
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Freerunning in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
]The Universes Beyond crossovers have brought many interesting mechanics to Magic. These mechanics are designed to capture the flavor of whatever property MTG is crossing over with.
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The 46 Best Lifelinkers in Magic Ranked
Lifelink is an incredible evergreen keyword that radically changes combat math, especially when connected to a combat trick. But we’re interested in creatures with lifelink today, the ones that’ll gain us some life while chipping away at our...
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Tiered in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Next in a long line of “kicker-style” mechanics is tiered, a way to increase the impact of your spells and feel like you’re developing your own JRPG Final Fantasy mage character. Or healer. Or support character.
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