Playing five colors in a MTG deck is a balancing act, you’ll have access to more power, but at the cost of a shaky mana base and unplayable cards in the early game. But what if we had something flexible to help you thrive early and late?
Read morePrepare is one of the bigger mechanics in Secrets of Strixhaven, one that features on 46 cards across the main set and the precons, and makes up a large portion of the Limited landscape.
Read moreGrandeur sounds like it’ll be good. It sounds like it’ll be the best. Hence my disappointment when I did an image search for “grandeur” to try to explain the vibe of this word and saw many pictures of Hyundais. Not that that model of car isn’t...
Read moreWhat if I told you that instead of spending $20 on an average rare card, there’s a format where you can invest the same amount to obtain an entire competitive deck? Let’s delve into Pauper, the budget-friendly and competitive format...
Read moreMagic’s lore is always expanding and being built upon, but where it starts is as important as where it ends. Today I’d like to present you with a swath of information about the specific origins of the Elder Dragons, their individual stories, and...
Read moreRepartee is the mechanic for aspiring Silverquill students who want their words to sting just as badly as a Prismari mage’s fire magic. It draws on a subtheme from the OG Strixhaven to give the second round of Silverquill cards a more distinct...
Read moreEveryone likes to cast spells, right? You cast spells and things happen. Today I’m going to talk about flashback, a mechanic that allows you to recast cards from the graveyard.
Read moreThe command zone has experienced a fundamental change since the release of Commander 2014. You can select a planeswalker as your commander, a whole set of rules and questions come into play.
Read moreThe Prismari school in Secrets of Strixhaven gets a mechanic similar to magecraft in opus, which also cares about casting instants and sorceries, and it loves when you get flamboyant with expensive ones.
Read moreThere are a lot of new mechanics to cover for Secrets of Strixhaven, so use this as a study guide, because you’re going to need it if you don’t want to be incinerated by your professor.
Read moreMeld is a mechanic first bought into Magic with Eldritch Moon as one of the methods to evoke the eldritch horrors that Emrakul was raining down upon Innistrad in that set. Well, it came back in The Brothers’ War, and the cards are pretty...
Read moreThe epic mechanic was introduced over ten years ago, and it had huge problems. Secrets of Strixhaven’s new paradigm mechanic completely fixes them.
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