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A Review of Magic: the Gathering’s Strixhaven Expansion, Part 1 of 4: The Mechanics

FromTheShire -
With the imminent release of the new Strixhaven set, we're evaluating the first years as they make their way into the academy. And also the set's cards, we guess. In this article - the first of four in our...
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Commander Focus: Krark and Sakashima – the cake is no lie

B Phillip York -
The odds are pretty good there's some interesting Magic: the Gathering lore as to why poor Krak has no thumbs. But maybe we've already lost that bet. For the most part, Wizards of the Coast have decided to scale...
Gaming

The 16 cards that are banned in Commander but not Conquest

B Phillip York -
We've previously covered the Conquest format and what sets it apart from the Commander format. In today's column, we're looking at how the format's ban list differs from Commanders, and the impact certain "unbanned" cards may have. Part of the...
Magic the Gathering

Trogdor Tribal – Old School Burnination with Vaevictis Asmadi

FromTheShire -
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...
Gaming

Magic: Legends Review — Beta Luck Next Time

Jonathan Bernhardt -
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:...
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Commander/Conquest Focus: America: FY with Brallin and Shabaz

B Phillip York -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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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