Squirreled Away Bloomburrow Precon Commander Upgrade Guide

Squirreled Away Bloomburrow Commander Precon Upgrade Guide

Jacob LacknerCommander

Bloomburrow releases on August 2nd and with it comes four new commander preconstructed decks. As Card Kingdom’s resident rodent lover, I’m very excited to take a look at the Golgari Squirreled Away deck. This deck looks to generate tons of tokens and mana to overwhelm your opponent. In this article I’m going to review the deck’s contents and suggest some …

Is Grouping Creature Types Good for Magic?

Is Grouping Creature Types Together Good for Magic?

Jacob LacknerDesign

Typal (formerly “tribal”) decks are very popular in all of Magic’s formats. These are strategies that revolve around playing a bunch of creatures with the same type alongside cards that give you bonuses for that creature type. Recently, cards that offer typal bonuses to more than one creature type have become more common. In this article, I’ll discuss the history …

Underrated Commander Cards From Planeshift

Underrated Commander Cards From Planeshift

Jacob LacknerCommander

I started playing Magic: the Gathering in Fall of 1998 and my first was Urza’s Saga. This means for the first two years I played Magic, I bore witness to an era dominated by noncreature spells and monocolored cards. So, when Invasion Block came out two years later with a big focus on multicolored cards and powerful creatures, it felt …

5 Underrated Commander Cards from Dragon's Maze

5 Underrated Commander Cards from Dragon’s Maze

Jacob LacknerCommander

Magic players love Ravnica sets. The plane has 10 separate two-color factions tasked with doing different things to maintain order. These separate factions, the flavor behind them, and their internal synergies are what Magic players love the most about Ravnica. Overall, if a set is on the plane of Ravnica, it’s been a real crowd pleaser. However there is one …

5 Underrated Commander Cards From Visions

5 Underrated Commander Cards From Visions

Jacob LacknerCommander

Visions is an important set in the history of Magic. Not only was it part of Magic’s very first cohesive Block (Mirage Block), it also introduced enter-the-battlefield abilities. Love them or hate them, these days tons of creatures come with ETB abilities, and it all started with Visions. However, when it comes to Commander, Visions isn’t exactly a set filled …

Tricky Terrain Modern Horizons 3 Commander Precon Upgrade Guide

Tricky Terrain: Modern Horizons 3 Commander Precon Upgrade Guide

Jacob LacknerCommander

Modern Horizons 3 releases on June 14th and this time around a Modern Horizons set comes with Commander preconstructed decks. The Tricky Terrain deck is perhaps the most unique of these new decks as it is a Simic “lands matter” deck that approaches lands in a couple of very novel ways. In this article, I’m going to look at the …

Modern Horizons 3 Easter Eggs

Is Modern Horizons the New Place for Un-Jokes?

Jacob LacknerDesign

With Un-sets like Unfinity and Unstable waning in popularity, there’s a clear trend replacing those set’s storied reference game: putting references and puns-a-plenty into Modern Horizons sets. Jacob sits down to argue why Modern Horizons sets are a natural place to put these easter eggs. THE ORIGINAL JOKESTER Magic has several joke sets. The first of these was 1998’s Unglued. …