Living Metal in MTG: Rules, FAQ, and Best Cards
Universes Beyond allows WotC to introduce different franchises to MTG. With The Brothers’ War and its artifact theme, the Transformers IP got its own Beyond treatment on 13 new cards.
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All 5 Red Battles in Magic Ranked
It’s not every day that you get a new card type in Magic, and before battles, the next most recent addition was planeswalkers. And they feel like they’ve been around forever! Although battles are found in all colors, when a card type is called...
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Decayed in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Magic is well-known for designing creatures that fall into one of two camps: either the weaker, more expensive card with a great ability, or the cheaper, over-statted creature with a drawback. Decayed falls into that latter category...
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Recover in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Recover probably belongs to that group of Magic: The Gathering mechanics that sounded better in the designers’ minds. It’s still a quintessentially Magic-al mechanic, though, since it’s all about using your graveyard as a resource.
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All 4 White Battles in Magic Ranked
Battles shook up the Limited format by opening tons of new choices, but they’ve seen Constructed play. Which of the four white battles are the best? Which ones give you the most bang for your buck without being too difficult to flip?
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All 5 Green Battles in Magic Ranked
We’ve entered the post-March of the Machine world, and Wilds of Eldraine has shown us what that plane looks like after The Aftermath. But MOM brought something new that I’m curious to see return: battles.
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All 15 Riot Cards in Magic Ranked
The Gruul Clans are known for opposing the oppressive rules of Ravnica’s civilization. From a flavor point of view, riot perfectly encapsulates the Gruul Clans.
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Clash in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Clash is a mechanic often remembered as a failure, if it’s remembered at all, more than a dozen years after the last clash cards were printed. But Mark Rosewater’s elegy for the mechanic is more nuanced: “I consider it a noble but failed...
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Reinforce in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Magic mechanics can get a little confusing sometimes, so we’re calling in the reinforcements. It’s me, I’m the reinforcements. Get it, reinforce-ments? I come prepared with rules knowledge and jokes!
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Afflict in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Amonkhet block is home to such cool Egyptian-themed world-building and serves as the backdrop to one of the most important story arcs in Magic: The Bolas Arc. The setting is brought to life by the awesome mechanics in both Amonkhet and Hour of...
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The 35 Most Expensive and Must-Have Cards in Wilds of Eldraine
When looking at Wilds of Eldraine from a financial standpoint, and above all when factoring a card’s selling price as you sit down for a Wilds of Eldraine draft, the first thing to mention is that all Wilds of Eldraine boosters (including...
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The 42 Best Animate and Attack with Wall and Defender Cards in Magic Ranked
Perhaps the humblest of aims is breaking the rule set right there on one type of card. Walls, and later defenders, can’t attack. If you read that and think, “But what if I really want them to?”, this article is for you.
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