Splinter, Radical Rat makes it easier to play your ninjas with their special abilities as an unblockable enabler, plus it doubles up on your ninjas’ triggered abilities, usually combat damage/saboteur triggers that these slippery fighters tend to...
Read moreCantrips are probably one of the first slang terms you’ll end up hearing in Magic. They’re great spells because they replace themselves in your hand and offer excellent tempo and strategy implementation through a game of Magic.
Read moreMyojin are some of the coolest big-mana haymakers in Magic, because they don’t just hit the board, they threaten a one-shot moment that can flip the whole table.
Read moreEnter the battlefield effects are simple ways to extract a ton of value from the cards you play. If you hope to be competitive in MTG, you must understand how to utilize ETB effects. For today’s purposes, we’ll check out the best blue cards with...
Read moreThe original Rakdos in Ravnica had a strong focus on mindless action, and in our latest return to the city-plane, we got a Rakdos Cult with a strong focus on sacrifices. This is a color combination of recklessness, speed, spectacle, violence, and...
Read moreYou might already know that there’s a way to win a game of Magic aside from dealing damage: when your opponent must draw a card with an empty library. Most of the time, this is an afterthought. For some, it’s the dream.
Read moreI really, really want to like things with beasts in them, but Magic makes it tough. They’re mana intensive to cast, and that’s sort of their identity. You really need special cards to help make MTG beasts playable. And often that’s going to be a...
Read moreIf there’s anything holding you back from buying booster packs you’ll be happy to know that Magic actually makes a great product that addresses them all. They’re called bundles, and they’re very helpful when it comes to building your card...
Read moreI’ve been a Magic player longer than I haven’t, and that’s largely because of Commander. I’ve had the pleasure of playing dozens of different decks. Different strategies, colors, themes, name it and I’ve probably piloted it a few times. That’s...
Read moreDamage, treasure-making, and rummaging are just a few of the common effects you’ll find on red ETB cards.
Read moreEach color in Magic has something it excels at and does almost exclusively, even if they share the mechanical space with other colors. One of black’s marque mechanics? Sacrifice outlets! Black decks love throwing creatures into the woodchipper...
Read moreMagic’s a game that can be modified a lot as long as you and your friends all agree on the new rules. This open-endedness is a highly positive thing about Magic, as evidenced by the creation of the Dandân format.
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