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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

How to play all the best Magic cards at once. Four-Color Yorion is the premier midrange deck in Magic: The Gathering’s Modern format. Thanks to the range of Modern manabases, you get to play the best answers, the best threats, and stitch it all together with powerful card advantage. Somehow we get to live in … Read more

Casting Pirates has never looked so good. Temur Pirates (or commonly known as Temur Malcolm & Tana) is a creature-combo cEDH deck that often looks to be the most aggressive deck at the table, beat out only by the most all-in of Ad Nauseam decks. It is my favorite competitive Commander deck to play, and I have gotten a Top 16 … Read more

Early March of the Machine previews leads to aggressive speculation. Earlier in the week, Wizards of the Coast kickstarted March of the Machine previews, where previews remain ongoing, showing off a range of exciting new cards. From the new Battle card type to other exciting additions such as Sword of Once and Future and Tribute to the World Tree, March of the … Read more

A financial retrospect of the two Modern Horizon releases. In 2019, Wizards of the Coast introduced an exciting new line of Magic: The Gathering products that would aim to support the popular eternal format, Modern. Modern Horizons came as a promise to print engaging new-to-Modern cards to bolster old archetypes and assemble new ones. In … Read more

What reprints could we expect in Dominaria Remastered? Magic: The Gathering’s first set release for 2023 is Dominaria Remastered. With a global release of January 13, Dominaria Remastered contains reprints from 27 different sets throughout MTG’s history. Players will find a rare or mythic rare, a Retro-Frame card, and a Retro-Frame land in every Dominaria Remastered … Read more

Powerful legends from Magic’s past. Dominaria Remastered is something of a surprise hit for me. It shouldn’t be, as reprint sets tend to be full of exciting game pieces for me to fill my Commander collection with, but the number of powerful cards hiding in these packs is beyond the expectations I’ve set for myself. … Read more