When Vintage was first announced as a playable format on Magic Online (MTGO), MTG players wondered how people would play without the most powerful cards in the format? Cards like the famous Power Nine and other Vintage staples weren’t available...
Read moreMTG players yearn for new formats almost daily. Exhausted with Commander or turned off by competitive formats, many have started looking back in time for a new casual, multiplayer Magic experience. The recent return of Planechase oversized cards...
Read moreThe recent return to the age of the Brothers’ War and its long-lasting consequences has sparked some interest for the stories of Magic’s past. What better reason to revisit older sets and compare them to modern design and art standards.
Read moreFear not, people of Innistrad! The big, flying, and good-aligned angels are coming to save the day, led by no one other than Avacyn herself now that she’s restored. Avacyn Restored is the set that concludes the original Innistrad block, which was...
Read moreWeatherlight was the third and final expansion released as part of Magic’s Mirage block. It set itself apart from the previous two sets in the block by focusing on the graveyard.
Read moreAlthough I started playing Magic during Ice Age, that was my first real relationship with a card game. It was scary and confusing at times. I had to grapple with my crush’s complicated past, you know, mistakes like Fallen Empires or banding.
Read moreOdyssey is the set that made us care about the graveyard, count the number of cards there, cast some spells from the graveyard thanks to the flashback mechanic, and much more. Today I’m covering the story of those 350 cards, why you should care...
Read moreGatecrash is the second set in the Return to Ravnica block, preceded by the titular Return to Ravnica, and followed by Dragon’s Maze, the final set in the block. While the original Ravnica block featured four guilds per set, Gatecrash and Return...
Read moreMOM is far from the first time Phyrexia has posed a threat. Before New Phyrexia and the modern age of Magic, Yawgmoth’s original Phyrexians threatened the safety of the Multiverse and especially Dominaria.
Read moreWe’re stepping into unknown territory once the dust has settled from the Phyrexian invasion, and the planes return to something like normality. But what is this set? What is it bringing to the game? Introducing MOM: The Aftermath.
Read moreThis wacky format originated back in 2009. Planechase is a supplementary set for multiplayer games of Magic, creating the Planechase format, where players duke it out across a variety of battlefields from across Magic’s story. It consists of four...
Read moreI don’t know about you, but I’m absolutely loving March of the Machine so far, and we haven’t started official previews yet! We got plenty to go off of in First Looks, though, so it’s time to take a look what we know so far and what we can expect...
Read more
