The rising popularity of Commander has led to a rise in the popularity of proxies for Magic’s most popular formats. Players doing personal play testing would use proxies, or stand-in cards, as would those interested in playing casual games of...
Read moreYou can proxy a card and put it in your deck, and that’s totally accepted and sometimes even incentivized by the casual community. Then there’s counterfeiting or buying fake cards, which is totally illegal.
Read moreReleased in 2008, Morningtide contains one of my favorite cards in MTG. To be completely transparent, I couldn’t play with the Lorwyn block, but I used some of its most powerful cards in formats like Extended and Modern in the early days.
Read moreShards of Alara was the MTG set that fleshed out and named the allied 3-color combinations as we know them today: Bant, Esper, Grixis, Jund, and Naya. That’s also why these combinations are called “shards”
Read moreThrone of Eldraine introduced Food tokens, which became one of my favorite Limited mechanics. It added so much texture to the format, giving control decks legs against more aggressive decks leveraging Rimrock Knight and other cheap creatures.
Read moreMaybe I’m old, but I remember a time when cards from Magic sets were just Magic cards. No Universes Beyond. No alternate art. Just regular cards, maybe some foil cards, and that was it.
Read moreZacama, Primal Calamity isn’t the most popular dinosaur in EDH; that crown belongs to Gishath, Sun’s Avatar. But for my money, Zacama can be one of the most fun ways to start your dinosaur adventure. Is this deck actually viable? Or is it just a...
Read moreI dedicate today’s list to all the enchantment lovers out there, specifically the lovers of cheap low-curve auras. Keep your Eldrazi Conscription and Colossification at home, I’m bringing it down much, much lower, and exploring the best low-mana...
Read moreThat’s right. After somehow managing to talk about Rakdos every chance I got, I’m finally writing about a Rakdos commander. However, this isn’t a “pure Rakdos” deck in the sense that I didn’t build it thinking in building around the commander...
Read moreAntiquities is a puzzling set to look at through the lens of 30 years of Magic, with its emphasis on artifacts over other permanents and the strange ways in which different colors interacted with that card type. It’s also home to some all-timer...
Read moreA classically powerful mono-green EDH deck is Marwyn, the Nurturer. There’s a cEDH build of this deck, which shares 80% of the cards and the plan with the better Selvala, Heart of the Wilds deck, but I think Selvala, even down at cEDH tier 2 or...
Read moreAs a wise man once said: “If you’re not first, you’re last.” Sure, being the first at something is great, but Ricky Bobby’s dad didn’t seem to grasp that there’s merit in being second, too. Case in point: Limited Edition Beta, Magic’s second ever...
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