Wow, Outlaws of Thunder Junction spoiler season was messy, wasn’t it? Between the chaotic main set, the Breaking News bonus sheet, repurposed “The Big Score” cards, and Special Guests, it felt like literally everything was coming to Thunder...
Read moreBooster packs of Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) feel just about as lawless as the actual Wild West plane of villains itself. Play boosters are already new enough as it is, but OTJ boosters have so much going on. There’s “The Big Score”...
Read moreThe last MTG set from the Mirrodin block, Fifth Dawn, was released in 2004. While it didn’t bring tons of powerful cards like its predecessor sets, Mirrodin and Darksteel, it has some hidden gems worth exploring. Some of them are key in decks...
Read more| Illustration by Jeff Miracola I started playing Magic back in 2012 after a friend of mine got me hooked on it. Even though mana burn had been rendered obsolete three years before that, people were still talking about it. Some with verve, others...
Read moreToday we’re pointing at everyone but ourselves, casting suspicion on our opponents and goading them into combat. Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser’s slinging blame left and right, so good luck blocking, opponents!
Read moreKaladesh was a fairly innovative Magic set. We’d seen artifact sets before, but Kaladesh’s mechanics made it feel distinct. It was a golden world full of invention and energy, and finally solidified how vehicles fit into Magic’s framework. Aether...
Read moreMagic has been recreated in multiple video game formats over the years, from PC to console to mobile. This allowed designers to overcome some paper limitations, like tracking changing card stats or applying random numbers, so tons of digital-only...
Read moreThe 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.
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