Magic the Gathering

Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Review, Part 3 – Multicolor, DFCs, and Colorless

Just in time for Halloween we’re returning once again to Innistrad. The days are getting shorter, the nights are getting longer, and we’ve got an entire set of spooky new cards to shake up every format. In today’s set...

Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Review, Part 2 – WUBRG

Magic's newest expansion has us returning to Innistrad just in time for Halloween. Innistrad: Midnight Hunt is the first of two expansions set in the horror-themed plane, and this first set sees the story focusing on the besieged humans'...

Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Review, Part 1 – The Mechanics

Magic's newest expansion has us returning to Innistrad just in time for Halloween. Innistrad: Midnight Hunt is the first of two expansions set in the horror-themed plane, and this first set sees the story focusing on the besieged humans'...

Commander Focus: The Death of Golos

Yesterday's ban announcement  is one of the largest to happen in a while: As of 09/13/2021, Golos, Tireless Pilgrim is banned from Commander. As it turns out, we'd just finished building another Golos deck, and while it's no longer...

Commander Focus: Markov, Blood on the Cheap

Credit: Volkan Baga, Wizards of the Coast Okay, you want a deck you can build for a whopping $160 dollars, here you go. Eminence, in my October opinion, is a really underused mechanic. I understand the logic: Magic is largely supposed...

Commander Focus: Syr Gwyn, the Night Rider

Credit: Lie Setiawan, Wizards of the Coast I sort of identify as an Azorius player; or a blue player, generally. Long ago, when Extended had a deck that was essentially 32 counterspells, thieving magpie, morphling, and faerie conclaves, that's what...

Commander Focus: Kolaghan, A dash of Fire

Credit: Jaime Jones, Wizards of the Coast Dragons are cool, big flying, nigh-invulnerable creatures that breath fire, and appear to have some sort of fetish for non-fiat assets. Maybe they're all a bunch of libertarians, or maybe it has some...

Commander Focus: Esika, God of Gods

Credit: Johannes Voss, Wizards of the Coast As soon as I saw The World Tree I thought there had to be a deck around it. Of course, it could be just as simple as running god Tribal deck. There are...

Mental Magic: Lessons I’ve Learned About Managing Mental Health Over the Last 10 Years

CW: Self Harm/ Mental Health Discussion Hello everyone, I hope you have all been good. This week I decided I wanted to talk about some lessons about Mental Health and gaming so I'm going to tell some stories from my...

Commander Focus: Abusing Dungeons with Golos, Tireless Adventurer

Golos, Tireless Pilgrim. Credit: Joseph Meehan, Wizards of the Coast Every time a new set comes out, I think it's worth trying to make a deck around the new mechanics in the set. I like sets like Modern Horizons/Modern Horizons...