As 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...
Read moreTheros was defined by its enchantment creatures. Two mechanics emerged as part of this enchantment theme. The second, bestow, generated advantage in more subtle ways.
Read moreThe Eldrazi have always been the MTG equivalent of a strange alien threat, and although they have some pretty memorable mechanics like annihilator, nothing quite evokes the horror of their strangeness like emerge does.
Read moreModern Magic sets have been super powerful, and Modern Horizons 3 looks to be no different. There are some very nutty things in here, and I think we’re all hoping that this doesn’t break formats.
Read moreWhile Modern Horizons 3 may not have a wealth of legendary creatures like we just got in Outlaws of Thunder Junction, there are still quite a few commanders in this new Magic set. As a set focused on Modern, some of the new legendary creatures...
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