5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (907+ words) Ashiok, Nightmare Muse | Illustration by Raymond Swanland Sonic and Shadow. Batman and Owlman. Pit and… Dark Pit. Throughout their journeys, our favorite protagonists often meet mirrored versions of themselves, characters that share many of their traits, but whose goals are…...

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, 5+ day ago   (1511+ words) Elesh Norn | Illustration by Magali Villeneuve Rarity is a great tool for Magic developers to balance cards, typically for Limited formats. If a super strong card appears too often, it warps the Draft environment around itself. Thus higher rarity often…...

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…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (456+ words) Jace Reawakened | Illustration by Cristi Balanescu We just got an extended look at Reality Fracture, including a bunch of exciting new cards. Among the most exciting (and utterly strange) are the ones that reintroduce a classic mechanic…with a wild…...

4+ day, 17+ 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…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1406+ words) Dragonlord Atarka | Illustration by Antonio José Manzanedo There are so many Gruul cards to love, like the iconic Rhythm of the Wild and the flavorful Bigger on the Inside. Today, we'll look at the best mythic rare cards Gruul has…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1458+ words) Sen Triplets | Illustration by Greg Staples Esper colors naturally lend themselves to value, card advantage, and a control game, elements that are highly valued in EDH, so today we’ll take a look at all the mythic rare cards with the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (382+ words) Mishra's Bauble | Background Illustration by Zack Stella On Monday, August 24, the prominent MTG card database Scryfall.com updated their front page with a grey background texture and images for some card art we'd never seen before. Clicking any of those…...

2+ day, 19+ 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…...