Stephen A. Smith is no stranger to weighing in on drafts, but he was recently asked by to give his take on a very different kind: a Magic: The Gathering draft. Ever the consummate professional, Smith got straight to work analyzing the two Magic...
Read moreWotC is reconsidering its position about having only a single Planeswalker in each premier Magic set, according to MTG Head Designer Mark Rosewater. “We are talking about it,” Rosewater wrote in his blog last Sunday, answering a...
Read moreClaiming the two top spots at Magic’s Champions Cup in Shizuoka, Japan, Mono-Black Demons went from an interesting deck to a bona fide Pioneer powerhouse. After beating a field of 259 MTG players, Tomoaki Ogasawara defeated Tasuro Asano...
Read morePartner is one of MTG’s most powerful keyword abilities in the EDH format, with partner commanders routinely topping cEDH tournaments and showing the highest conversion rates. Is it too powerful, though?
Read moreWacky does not mean cheap, though: some of the most expensive MB2 cards, including the technically unplayable Alchemy “reprints,” are soaring well over the $200 mark.
Read moreFollowing WotC’s announcement of their plans to introduce a power bracket system to rate EDH cards, a survey on Reddit received more than 225,000 votes sorting the 150 most popular Commander cards into the four proposed brackets. The survey...
Read moreWizards of the Coast announced they would be taking over management of Commander. This announcement came with the outline of a four-tier bracket idea designed to be “a more objective approach to deck power level” than the current 1-10 deck level...
Read moreOver the last few days, the Commander community has been shaken by the unexpected ban of, not just one, but four major staple cards. The uproar from the community was loud, with all kinds of responses and questions emerging—most of them not in a...
Read moreWizards of the Coast has announced that they will take over management and oversight of the Commander format and banlist from the Commander Rules Committee following a series of controversial bans.
Read moreKnowing it would be controversial, Rosewater named Magic’s third biggest mistake: the proliferate mechanic.
Read moreDuskmourn’s release brings a powerful and cheap new infinite combo into Magic’s Standard, Modern, and Pioneer formats with Fear of Missing Out.
Read moreDuskmourn’s Withering Torment will give black its first instant-speed, unconditional enchantment removal, firmly putting “enchantment destruction” in the list of things black can do in Magic.
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