A Letter to the Card Kingdom Community

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To the Card Kingdom community: Many of you have seen news online of an ongoing unionization campaign for Card Kingdom employees. Until this point, we have been cautious when releasing information—there are rigorous legal requirements that ensure businesses uphold every employee’s right to free speech and organizing that we want to follow closely. We also want to honor our employees’ …

Myriad – MTG Keywords Explained

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Myriad is a creature-based multiplayer mechainc. I mean, you could play it in a 1-vs-1 game, but it wouldn’t do a whole lot of anything. Here’s why: When a creature with Myriad attacks, for each opponent other than the one you attacked, you create a token copy of the myriad creature that enters the battlefield tapped and attacking those opponents. …

Devour – MTG Keywords Explained

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Devour is a mechanic that flavorfully does exactly what it says on the tin, and makes some truly huge threats as a result.  Devour appears solely on creature cards, and represents some monster getting larger as it, well, devours other creatures. When a creature with Devour would enter the battlefield, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. If you do, …

News of the Realm – 5/20/22

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With News of the Realm, we take a quick look at everything that went on at Card Kingdom, with our friends, and in the Magic world this week!  Welcome one and all to News of the Realm! Here’s what we and our friends had going on for the week leading up to May 20th, 2022. The Professor discussed the value …

Retrace – MTG Keywords Explained

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Retrace appears on Instants and Sorceries, and is a mechanic that lets you get a lot of use out of those spells. If a card with Retrace is in your graveyard, you may pay its mana cost and discard a land from your hand to cast it from there, still obeying all normal timing restrictions. However, unlike a lot of …

News of the Realm 5/13/22

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With News of the Realm, we take a quick look at everything that went on at Card Kingdom, with our friends, and in the Magic world this week!  Welcome one and all to News of the Realm! Here’s what we and our friends had going on for the week leading up to May 13th, 2022. The Professor told the story …

Casualty – MTG Keywords Explained

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Casualty will usually appear on instants and sorceries, although as Ob Nixilis, the Adversary shows, it can appear on any card type. It will always be written with a number next to it, and functions as an optional additional cost. Whenever you cast a spell with casualty, you may sacrifice a creature that has power equal to or greater than …

News of the Realm – 5/6/22

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With News of the Realm, we take a quick look at everything that went on at Card Kingdom, with our friends, and in the Magic world this week!  Welcome one and all to News of the Realm! Here’s what we and our friends had going on for the week leading up to May 6thth, 2022. The Professor played the Booster …

Shipping Status: May 5, 2022

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Card Kingdom orders may be subject to temporary shipping and processing delays as we get caught up from the Streets of New Capenna release. While it is great to see so many people checking out the new Magic set, the popularity took even us by surprise! This may create longer order processing times of ~4 days. While we expect any delays …

Connive – MTG Keywords Explained

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Connive appears on creature cards and is a triggered ability. Whenever a creature connives, you draw a card and discard a card – and if the card you discarded was a nonland card, that creature gets a +1/+1 counter. Sometimes, connive will be written as connive X, where X will be some variable or number, like on Raffine. In that …