Modern Horizons Prerelease Primer

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Supplemental Magic products don’t normally have Prerelease weekends, but Modern Horizons isn’t your usual supplemental Magic product. The set is the first to bypass Standard and feed cards directly into the Modern format, and it’ll be the star of three main events at MagicFests this month. Like the original Modern Masters set, Modern Horizons is poised to become a fan …

Card Kingdom’s Modern Horizons Giveaway

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With Modern Horizons coming up, we’re running a special giveaway to celebrate with our Card Kingdom Twitter community! Each week leading up to the release of Modern Horizons, we’ll be sharing a new video explaining two major Modern archetypes. These videos are meant to educate newer players about the most popular decks in Modern, from Tron to Dredge to Blue-White …

Modern Archetype Stickers

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We all know the feeling: Sometimes you have too many Magic: The Gathering decks, and you can’t keep track of all of them! Even if you use different colored deck boxes, you may have trouble remembering where you put each of your decks. Well, good news for Modern players: With the release of Modern Horizons, we’re introducing new Modern Archetype …

Modern Horizons and Modern Tribal Decks

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As Modern Horizons preview season has progressed, one thing has become increasingly clear: Tribal decks are getting more support in Modern. Tribal decks are creature-based decks that take advantage of synergies between creatures that share a type. These decks have been and continue to be mainstays of the Modern format, but some have overperformed of late while others have faded …

6 War of the Spark Standard Decks to Watch

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Two weeks have passed since War of the Spark’s release, and we have enough data to start analyzing the new Standard metagame. From the looks of it, the landscape is as diverse as ever, with aggro, midrange, and control strategies each claiming a large slice of the pie. While there are at least a dozen viable strategies, a few decks …

An Intro to Modern

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With Mythic Championship II just behind us and Modern Horizons coming up, there’s been a lot of buzz about the Modern format. We’ve also seen a huge influx of new Magic players to the competitive ecosystem with the advent of MTG Arena, so we wanted to offer a quick introduction to the Modern format. Modern is a non-rotating format that …

Magic vs Hearthstone

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Magic: The Gathering, the tabletop game about powerful plane-hopping wizards, has seen a spike in popularity with the release of its new digital analogue, MTG Arena. For years, people have been discovering Magic at their local game stores and through their D&D groups. Now more than ever before, players are coming to Magic from other digital games, including other collectible …

War of the Spark Limited Archetypes

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War of the Spark Traditional Draft has been live on MTG Arena for a week, and we’ve already had a few opportunities to try out the new format. War draft is more complex than usual, with high-powered cards and complicated interactions in seemingly every game. If you’re still trying to wrap your head around the draft format, we wanted to …

War of the Spark Standard Preview

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War of the Spark is available today, but its early release online has already given Magic fans ample opportunities to play the new Standard format. The first Magic Online League results are in, and MTG Arena players have been sharing their brews with @arenadecklists on Twitter all week long. While there’s still plenty of room for innovation, we have a …

3 Tips for your War of the Spark Prerelease

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Good news, Magic fans: You won’t have to contain your hype for War of the Spark much longer. Starting this week, you can finally play War of the Spark – starting Thursday on MTG Arena and at Prerelease over the weekend. We were fortunate enough to play War of the Spark a little early as part of the Early Access …