Reality Fracture Reshapes and Revives The Dying Standard Meta
The curse has been broken. Landfall is still at the top, but Magic’s OG format hasn’t looked this healthy in years. These decks are currently running the gamut.
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Wretched Ranks Upgrade Guide: 18 Easy Changes You Can Make
Wretched Ranks is a budget zombie EDH precon with Ghoulcaller Gisa at the helm. It’s a great introduction to go-wide token decks in Commander.
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All 4 Azorius Commander Precons in Magic Ranked
Blue and white often have a strong tempo, evasion, or control theme, but Azorius precons have explored some more unconventional themes for the color pair.
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The 41 Best Monk Cards in Magic Ranked
Monks in MTG take inspiration from people that devote their lives to perfecting themselves via martial arts or arcane knowledge, usually via the prowess mechanic. Most of them can get evasion (now you see me, and now you don’t) and can raise...
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The 27 Best Second Spell Payoffs in Magic Ranked
Second spell payoffs are cards with a triggered ability that rewards you for casting your second spell in a turn. It’s becoming an increasingly more popular design space for archetypes in new sets.
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Which MTG Set Is the Best to Buy? (2026)
With over 160 sets spread across more than 30 years of Magic’s history, it is daunting to figure out where to start when you look to buy packs. As someone who has played Magic for more than 10 years and devoted countless hours to this game, allow...
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All 249 Magic Scene Cards and How to Get Them
I love the encounter with the Balrog in the movie and the books. I’m not “a servant of the Secret Fire,” but I can help to give you a preview of the wonderful scene cards from the new Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth set.
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Everything We Know About the Magic: The Gathering Movie
A Magic: The Gathering movie has been “in the works” so many times that it’s basically a running gag by now. The difference this time is that the current version has a major studio partner, and according to several reports, the project has a...
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[Status] Magic’s Serialized The One Ring Has Been Found, Graded and Sold!
With the release of The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth for MTG, we got something that we’ve never (quite) seen before in Magic before: a single, serialized version of a card. The One Ring is a key artifact from Tolkien’s world of...
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The 53 Best Mono Green Commanders in Magic Ranked
Green has lots to offer, with competitive but also fun commanders to choose from. Combine this with the color’s diverse range of cards, and you have a lot of options when trying to build a mono-green deck.
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All 23 Insect Commanders in Magic Ranked
It shouldn’t be a surprise that many insect commanders in Magic interact with the graveyard in some way, whether they care about what’s in there, let you mill cards, or help you to reanimate creatures and lands.
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Acorn Cards in MTG: Rules, History, and FAQ
Magic designers had previously used silver borders to indicate non-tournament legal cards, but that evolved into the much nuttier acorn stamp we see today.
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