Bloomburrow’s story hit most of the notes I was looking for, so it’s time to turn to the cards, specifically Bloomburrow’s commanders. What will this new set bring? What new archetypes are opened by our small friends?
Read moreIt’s finally time for Bloomburrow! I’ve been unrealistically excited about this MTG set since it was first announced. The adorable idea of a Magic plane inhabited by cute anthropomorphic animals grabbed my attention right away, and it’s my...
Read moreIf you’re tired of three years of Esper Midrange in Standard, Bloomburrow should shake things up! And if you’re thinking about getting into Magic because this MTG set looks cute, but wonder if it’ll hold up competitively, I can tell you that...
Read moreWhen you think of Magic pushing into new design territory, you probably weren’t expecting them to simply up the ante on an already established mechanic, were you? Modern Horizons 3 is adding a new realm of triggered card advantage with three...
Read moreAs weird as it sounds, in Magic sometimes you’d rather have a card in your graveyard than in your hand. The main culprits are [REPLACE CARD]Golgari Grave-Troll[/REPLACE] for dredge 6, Griselbrand alongside Animate Dead, or Arclight Phoenix in...
Read moreThe modal gates have been opened, and many sets have printed double-faced lands. MTG now has more than 100 cards that have a land as one of their sides, and I’ve got the 48 best.
Read moreThere are a bunch of reprints in Assassin’s Creed, headlined for me by Onslaught’s Cover of Darkness, Exodus reprint Reconnaissance, and of course, Black Market Connections. I’m also curious if Propaganda becoming new-to-Modern will...
Read moreAll Magic players love land destruction, right? Reanimating Sundering Titan, casting Armageddon, and powering out Balance with a bunch of fast mana are all great ways to make friends.
Read moreMagic has plenty of forever mechanics, the evergreen abilities you see in every Magic set and recognize at a glance. Then it has its objectively bad mechanics, like daybound/nightbound and ante. But there’s a third category of mechanics that lies...
Read moreRattlesnake is an MTG slang term that you don’t hear too often, and it describes a very specific kind of card. The rattle means “Stay away!” Best to heed that warning.
Read moreWith over 300-400 cards printed in both Modern Horizons 3 and Modern Horizons 3 Commander sets, we’ll have plenty of new toys to play with in Modern as well as in other formats. Today we’re taking a look strictly at the reprints, cards that...
Read moreAdapt is different from evolve, which is different from mutate in MTG. They’re also different in real life, but in the fantasy gaming space, they all sort of point towards the same thing: the idea that the creature in play can change for the...
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