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Modern Focus: Mill

”121.4. A player who attempts to draw a card from a library with no cards in it loses the game the next time a player would receive priority.” – Magic: the Gathering comprehensive rules, written by Wizards of the...

Commander Focus: Slay Queen Marchesa

Image credit: Kieran Yanner, Wizards of the Coast In Commander Focus, Pseudanonymous looks at key Commanders, how to build around them, and what makes their decks work. In this first installment, he’s looking at Queen Marchesa. Queen Marchesa represents a stable platform...

Getting Started: Magic’s Modern Format, Part 1 – A Primer

Modern was created in the summer of 2011 as an eternal format that had a starting point later than the Limited Edition Alpha and Beta sets from 1993. At nearly 14,000 cards and counting, Modern is the largest eternal...

Commander Focus: Atraxa

In Commander Focus, Pseudanonymous looks at key Commanders, how to build around them, and what makes their decks work. In this first installment, he’s looking at Atraxa, Praetors' Voice. Atraxa, Praetors’ Voice is a  powerful and flexible commander that has...

Commander Focus: Golos, Sleeping Pilgrim

In Commander Focus, Pseudanonymous looks at key Commanders, how to build around them, and what makes their decks work. In this first installment, he's looking at Golos, Tireless Pilgrim. Among the storied tales of tier 0 commanders are such legends...

Magic: the Gathering Double Masters Set Review

With the full spoiler out now for Wizards of the Coast’s newest reprint set, Double Masters, we thought we’d take a look at the set as a whole and talk about its impact on constructed formats, including Commander, and...

Building a Commander Deck

We've previously covered the basics of Commander - check out our Getting Started article here - but in today's article we're talking about how to build a solid Commander deck. One of the frequent questions people ask is "How can...

Getting Started: Competitive Magic

This is Part Four of our "Getting Started: Magic the Gathering" series. You can find parts 1-3 here: Getting Started, Commander, and Arena. In this article we're going to discuss how you can take the next step in paper Magic, moving from...

Getting Started: Commander

Welcome to part three of our Getting Started series for Magic: The Gathering! Yesterday we covered the basics of getting started with Magic: The Gathering Arena electronically (click here if you missed that one and want to know more), and...

Getting Started: Magic the Gathering

So you’ve played a few games and enjoyed them, and decided that you want to take the plunge with Magic: The Gathering. Good choice! Magic is one of our favorite games, with dozens of game variants, tons of wonderful...