Equipment artifacts are pervasive in Magic. Sets like The Brothers’ War have quite a few of them, while others may have just one, like Bespoke Battlegarb in Wilds of Eldraine, but it’s really hard to find a Modern expansion or...
Read moreParents: Get your kids some books. Or an e-reader. Or a library card. Just get your kids reading, because it’s the easiest way to transport them to other worlds without leaving home. How else would I have learned the word “spelunking” as a...
Read moreDescend and its related mechanics (descended, descend X, and fathomless descent) are some of the new abilities introduced to Magic: The Gathering in its latest set, The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI).
Read moreSimilar to cascade, discover X lets you exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with a mana value of X or less. Then, you may cast it for free or put it into your hand, and you put the rest of the cards on the...
Read moreHybrid mana debuted in the original Ravnica block in 2005, and it changed the game forever. It took a couple of MTG sets to be used effectively, and 20 years later lots of sets regularly use this feature like Throne of Eldraine, Streets of New...
Read moreDice-rolling in Magic started as a joke, mainly with silver-bordered sets like Unglued, Unhinged, or the few MTG videogames of the ‘90s. After all, players hate variance and luck in their competitive games, and so dice were relegated to a niche...
Read moreUsually, the “unknown” in Magic is in the opponent’s hand or their library – which is threatening, for sure – but what if that element of surprise that could be anything was already on the battlefield, attacking your opponent? That’s the niche...
Read moreManifest was originally an offshoot of morph in the Khans of Tarkir block, but now we’re so far along in Magic that the offshoots have offshoots! Manifest got an upgrade in Duskmourn with manifest dread.
Read moreIt’s more of a new way to handle an existing ability that we’ve seen fairly frequently. But having the ability as part of a counter (as opposed to being meshed into the card’s rules text) adds a subtle layer of strategy. WotC...
Read moreWe all have a role to play in life. Like how I’ve taken up the mantle of being the voice of reason in my friend group, or how my little brother’s adopted the role of being the one who ruins every family reunion. Thanks to a new mechanic from...
Read moreI thoroughly enjoy looking at Magic both from a more mechanic-oriented outlook as well as from a flavor and lore perspective. I also enjoy being very critical of this game when I have to.
Read moreThe Kaladesh block was really polarizing. Some loved it, some hated it, and this has to do with the mechanics and the Standard format, which was shaky to say the least. Two new mechanics debuted in this block, energy and vehicles.
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