Magic the Gathering

Trogdor Tribal – Old School Burnination with Vaevictis Asmadi

FromTheShire - April 2, 2021

Credit: Anti Rusu, Wizards of the Coast Back in my day, before you kids came along with your Emracools and your Urgos, when YOU were the only planeswalker around, and Commander was a military rank, we used to play the...

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Magic: Legends Review — Beta Luck Next Time

Jonathan Bernhardt - March 30, 2021

Generally speaking we try not to review games before they release too often on this site -- we’ve broken the rule before, usually for games deep into Early Access, and we’re going to be breaking it again for Magic:...

Competitive Play

Commander/Conquest Focus: America: FY with Brallin and Shabaz

B Phillip York - March 25, 2021

I've long had a fondness for the "Curiosity effect + deal a damage when you draw a card" combo that's pretty obviously built in to Niv Mizzet, the Firemind. The combination of card draw and damage based off card...

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Time Spiral Remastered: Once More, With Feeling

Sean "Star Man" Matoon - March 19, 2021

Time Spiral: Remastered is a reprint set like Modern Masters or Double Masters before it. The theme of this set borrows from the MTGO-only set Tempest Remastered and the Arena-only sets Kaladesh and Amonkhet Remastered but with the added...

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Conquest Focus: The Recent Bans and Revisiting Jorn, God of Stax

B Phillip York - March 18, 2021

We've talked about the Conquest format and what's cool about it pretty recently - check out our intro here. Well the format recently updated with a new set of bans: - Inalla, Archmage Ritualist is banned as commander. - Rograkh,...

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Commander Focus: Jorn, God of Winter

B Phillip York - March 11, 2021

Credit: Wizards of the Coast, Magali Villaneuve Kaldheim continued a thread started in Zendikar Rising by offering new modal cards, though no longer bound to lands, giving us modal double-faced cards that instead had two spells to choose from. These...

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Commander Focus: Conquest, the Format of the Future Past

B Phillip York - March 4, 2021

Conquest is a new-ish (it's actually close to a year old at this point) format that attempts to capture the interesting aspects of cEDH while avoiding some of the problematic luck components and excessive shuffling aspects. It's no accident...

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Commander Focus: Golgari Elves, the Re-anim-elf-matrix

B Phillip York - February 25, 2021

Credit: Wizards of the Coast Elves have been pushing into Golgari territory the last year or so, and though it's not a new concept - Wizards first introduced green-black elves in Ravnica with the Golgari and expanded the concept in...

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Commander Focus: Uro, Never Not Banned Cards

B Phillip York - February 18, 2021

Credit: Vincent Proce, Wizards of the Coast Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath, is probably the stand-out card of Theros: Beyond Death. It's hard to say exactly but Simic has been at the center of a number of cards which required...

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Commander Focus: Take it to the Limit (Aegar, the Freezing Flame)

B Phillip York - February 11, 2021

Credit: Chris Rahn, Wizards of the Coast Aegar, the Freezing Flame comes out of Kaldheim as part of a strange and somewhat new tribe combination: Giant Wizards. If you thought this wasn't threatening enough: Imagine if he was also twenty feet...