Shroud in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
On today’s MTG mechanics menu we have shroud.
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Towns in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Final Fantasy isn’t exactly part of the multiverse, so towns aren’t quite canon to Magic lore yet, but the card type is now available to the game and could easily expand out of Universes Beyond.
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Marvel’s Arcane Spells Might Herald the Return of Another Obscure Mechanic
There are two new cards in Marvel Super Heroes with the arcane suptype, something we haven’t seen in a standard legal set in over twenty years. Why would they include this, and what does this mean for potential future sets?
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Job Select in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
For those Magic veterans who fondly remember living weapon and for Mirrodin!, the Final Fantasy x MTG crossover brings another auto-attach trick: job select, now with freshly minted 1/1 heroes rather than germs or rebels.
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Teamwork in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
In the Marvel universe, heroes and villains alike often work in teams, so let’s assemble a team of creature cards and see what teamwork in Marvel Super Heroes is all about.
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Connive in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
MTG usually needs mechanics that smooth the game, either providing more opportunities for you to play the lands when you need to or to find that spell you need, the mana you need, etc. Connive also serves this purpose in Streets of New...
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Omens in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
With so many dragons in a single set, we have a simple mechanic to ease high mana value cards into a regular deck curve: Omens.
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Harmonize in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Harmonize is three mechanics, rolled into a single keyword. It works like flashback, but you also get some optional cost reduction, and it plays into Temur’s big-creature identity well enough.
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Blood Tokens in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Nearly every Standard set these days has some kind of “gimmick” designed (at least in part) to smooth out the Limited format, whether it’s Treasures in Forgotten Realms, Powerstones in The Brothers’ War, or kicker in Dominaria United. Crimson Vow...
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Flood Counters in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
There aren’t many cards out there that create or interact with flood counters, but the mechanic is a great blend of flavor and function.
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Affinity for Artifacts in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Affinity is one of MTG’s most broken mechanics, alongside storm and others, and the term is synonymous nowadays for playing a lot of artifacts. Affinity for artifacts decks saw a lot of play in plenty of Constructed formats to the point of...
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Endure in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Abzan has always been at the intersection of life and death. The color combination has also been a good space for some of Magic’s most fundamental mechanics: +1/+1 counters, and tokens. With Tarkir: Dragonstorm, we now have a mechanic that puts...
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