2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (982+ words) Valor's Reach Tag Team | Illustration by Johann Bodin Back in 2014, I was excited to play my new Abzan commander and highlight the Condemn in my deck. So when my friend finally cast his 6-mana commander, I got rid of it…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (180+ words) Ichormoon Gauntlet | Illustration by Tiffany Turrill The Reality Fracture debut stream introduced the mechanics of the set, including empower Jace, an amass-like mechanic for planeswalkers that's caused price spikes for the artifact Ichormoon Guantlet, a niche planeswalker support card from…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (497+ words) Draftsim New Reality Fracture Planeswalker Mechanic Synergizes With Underplayed Jace Card Dramatic Reversal | Illustration by Eric Deschamps Yesterday’s Reality Fracture debut revealed a ton of cards from the set, like a new Emrakul, the five elder sphinxes, and the details…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (549+ words) Battle Brawler | Illustration by Karl Kopinski The main aspect that bothers MTG players about Universes Beyond (UB) is the fact that most of those sets don’t feel like MTG. In a recent declaration, Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks told us important…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1304+ words) Maul Splicer | Illustration by Jason Chan Splicers are the artisans of New Phyrexia, formerly Mirrodin. These Phyrexian artificers have a common characteristic: Their main body is weak, but they bring a stronger 3/3 golem with them, which makes the splicer excellent…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (145+ words) Cast Away Doubt | Illustration by Zara Alfonso The first changed announced by Wizards on the WPN site is the discontinued support of At-Home Prerelease. For the unfamiliar, AHP was introduced around COVID to help support local game stores in a…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1755+ words) Battle of Wits | Background Illustration by Jason Chan As nice as mainstream sets are, supplementary sets often give Wizards the freedom to do something special. That often means power creep—looking at you, Modern Horizons—but sometimes they just get…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1303+ words) Liliana the Repentant | Illustration by Aleksi Briclot Reality Fracture (FRA) is the big finale to Magic’s current storyline arc, with familiar characters returning alongside alternate-reality versions of themselves as Jace's Echoverse collides with the Multiverse. This makes Reality Fracture one…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (455+ words) Scuttling Sliver | Illustration by Mike Bierek Homer, the Hermit is one of the new commanders printed in Mystery Booster Commander Edition (MBC), and it’s clearly a commander for the minorities, considering the few numbers of these creature types. Typal commanders…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (713+ words) Chandra, Chill of Compliance | Illustration by Kieran Yanner Ajani Resolute | Illustration by Aleksi Briclot To the first point, Hydras are almost exclusively green, Krakens blue, and Phoenixes red. These are quintessential creatures for these colors, and so seeing them in…...