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Seth reacts to today’s Banned and Restricted announcement, and shares the decks he expects to benefit. I can’t tell you enough how necessary making bans to Modern was. The format has desperately needed a shakeup, and now we finally got it. As of tomorrow, Oko, Thief of Crowns, Mox Opal and Mycosynth Lattice are all banned … Read more

A legacy of high value cards! Examining a set like Urza’s Legacy is very interesting today, given that a slew of recent reprints have brought cards from this old set back to the forefront of people’s minds. Between The Brothers’ War and Dominaria Remastered, many old cards are being reprinted – some for the very first time – and it’s … Read more

Old archetypes are back in surprising forms. With Covid-19 preventing in-person events these past two years, my experience with the Modern format has felt very disjointed. Now that we are getting back to live events, including the SCG Invitational this weekend, Modern is back in the spotlight. While many classic archetypes are sure to be on display this weekend, … Read more

What’s coming in the March of the Machine? (Outside of the Phyrexians, of course) Magic: The Gathering’s upcoming Standard expansion, March of the Machine, has a global release date of April 21st, 2022. Players can experience March of the Machine a week before release during prerelease weekend. March of the Machine concludes the multi-set storyline beginning with Dominaria United. What fate … Read more

Get up to speed with the premium Commander release. Following the fantastic success of Double Masters 2022, Commander Masters is the next in the lucrative and desirable product line scheduled to drop in the summer, with a massive focus on the popular casual format — Commander. Commander continues to grow year-on-year and is the most popular Magic: The … Read more

Cassie delves into Magic’s latest foray into card scarcity — The One Ring. It finally happened. After Priceless Treasures, Masterpieces, Neon Ink Foils, and serialized cards showed Wizards of the Coast (WotC) willingness to go deeper and deeper into hyper-scarcity, where they finally cannonballed into the deep end of the pool with The Lord of the Rings: Tales of … Read more

Highlighting Standard, Pioneer, and Modern’s best. Magic: The Gathering continues to be as competitive as ever. With the return of the Pro Tour and various other competitive events, such as SCG Opens and the NRG Series, there are plenty of ways to tap into high-level Magic these days. Going further, Magic Online (MTGO) and MTG Arena … Read more

The city (and prices) that never sleep. Some sets go down in Magic history as absolute classics, changing the game on multiple levels. Gameplay, power, flavor, terminology – these sets live a long time in the memory thanks to the impact they have. The original Ravnica block is, I would argue, one of the most … Read more

Riley counts down the best human cards in Magic! Picking the top ten humans ever printed in Magic is tough — really tough. There are so many human cards printed over the years, as it is the most common tribe in all of Magic: The Gathering by quite a margin, that narrowing it down to just ten … Read more

What types of cards maintain value through reprints, bannings, and format changes? The Reserved List contains Magic: The Gathering’s most expensive cards. They’re costly, in part because Wizards of the Coast’s reprint policy states they’ll never get printed again. Besides WotC’s reprint policy, demand and scarcity are other causes for increasing Reserved List card prices. Market Price: $28.54 … Read more