Modified in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
We’ve had to redefine terms of commonly occurring conditions of cards in Magic over time. Today I’m looking at the latest of these terms introduced in Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty: modified.
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Mayhem in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Discard first, then break stuff: That’s the promise behind mayhem, the villain-flavored twist on graveyard casting from the MTG Spider-Man crossover.
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Tempting Offer in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Introduced in Commander 2013, tempting offer was created at the dawn of the new age of supplemental multiplayer sets. It’s one way that WotC would explore multiplayer-centric mechanics through their different product offerings
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Revolt in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Revolt is a very simple mechanic from Aether Revolt that would probably be forgotten by now, if not for a famous removal spell.
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Void in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Void triggers as battlefields get emptier, or whenever a spell is warped away at lightspeed. Just how does void work? And with which previous mechanics does it share some similarities?
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Warp in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Warp has huge implications for MTG, considering that many effects help us take advantage of a creature, even temporarily, and it’ll sometimes feel like cheating to play big creatures way ahead of schedule.
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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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Madness in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Undying and delirium set this world as full of horrors from beyond the grave where people’s sanities are one bad day away from snapping. And there’s another mechanic that plays into the sanity of the characters. That’s madness, the ability I...
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Cascade in MTG: Rules, History, and FAQs
Cascade has probably become one of my favorite mechanics since I started playing Magic back in 2007. Free spells are always fun and it makes players feel like they’re playing more powerful cards, even if the card they cascaded into...
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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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Melee in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Melee is the kind of Magic mechanic that rewards going wide and having as many enemies as possible, to kill them as fast as possible. After all, nothing wrecks wise plans like a punch in the face!
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Paradox in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Paradox in MTG messes with the game’s basics: You don’t want to play the cards from your hand. Today I’ll take you through the paradox mechanic, its rules, the best cards, and some incentives to play a deck built around this mechanic.
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