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Bringing a new kind of dazzle to Magic: The Gathering. With every Magic: The Gathering release, it seems Wizards of the Coast want to bring something new and exciting to the table, often taking inspiration from Pokémon when creating exotic card variants. The same is true for Wilds of Eldraine, the highly-anticipated Standard release that hopes to … Read more

Gain an enchanting advantage. Magic: The Gathering, and Commander in particular, is often driven by how efficient you can be with your cards. Few card types exemplify this efficiency better than enchantments, as the synergies that have been built into the card type include ways to generate value over time, including crucial card advantage engines. … Read more

We’re just Boromir living in a Bowmasters world. We’ve now been sitting with The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth for two months and its effects on the competitive (cEDH) and casual Commander metagame have been quite pronounced. Several new cards have been making impacts on the format, some more flashily than others. The One Ring prevents my favorite … Read more

Commander and Modern staples at affordable prices. In recent years, various Magic: The Gathering Standard expansions have incorporated bonus sheets to aid the Limited format, but these also serve as an excellent opportunity to snap up once-expensive cards at a much more affordable rate. Take The Brothers’ War: Retro Artifacts, where cards such as Mox Amber, Helm of the … Read more

Check out the cards from Tales of Middle-earth making waves in eBay auctions. Tales of Middle-earth has been a phenomenal success, delighting every type of Magic player. Whether that’s Tolkien fans looking to see their favorite characters on cards, followers of the hunt for the 1/1 One Ring, or collectors looking for the other flashy … Read more

Time to compleat your collection before All Will Be One! With the new Phyrexian-themed set, Phyrexia: All Will Be One, just around the corner, there is a strongly renewed interest in all things Phyrexian. Particularly with the preview of the brand-new Elesh Norn, who seems to be even more ridiculous than her first iteration, Phyrexians haven’t been … Read more

The Phyrexians are back with a vengeance. Magic: The Gathering’s latest Standard set, Dominaria United, was released on September 9th, and takes players back to the plane of Dominaria, a place filled with familiar tribes, locations, and planeswalkers. Between 41 legendary creatures, returning mechanics, and the beginning of a four-set story arc, Dominaria United offers … Read more

A Black Tarmogoyf? In my Standard format!? We’ve had access to the Lost Caverns of Ixalan cards for about a week. That’s not enough time to “solve” formats or to explore everything that might be out there. But it’s certainly enough to get a glimpse at what tools our boldest and most creative deckbuilders are most interested … Read more

Stupid sexy Malcolm! It’s the most wonderful time of the year! No, not those silly holidays – it’s another Secret Lair drop! This time, we’ve got a wonderful selection of themes, from some neat and avant garde art to a lot of Jurassic Park, so let’s break down what each of these offer and if … Read more

Ranking the best cards in the worst color. It probably isn’t an incredibly controversial take anymore that Green is the worst color in competitive Commander (cEDH). Even throughout its dominance of the occasional Standard format, its omnipresence in Commander (often for ramp purposes, something competitive Commander builds accomplish with mana-generating artifacts), and its longevity at … Read more