Modern Horizons 3 releases on June 14th. Like its predecessors, it is filled to the brim with references to past Magic: the Gathering cards and events. While many of these are just done for the sake of meta humor, there are also some more practical reasons they did this. While one of the goals of Modern Horizons 3 is to …
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 …
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. …
Legions is a weird set. Released in February of 2003 as the second set of Onslaught Block, it has one of the most extreme set gimmicks we’ve ever seen. That’s because every single card in the set has the same card type! All 145 cards in Legions are creatures. On the whole, Onslaught block was very focused on creature types, …
Homelands makes everyone’s short-list of the worst Magic sets of all time, both in terms of design and the power level of the cards. After all, when it comes to 60-card formats and Commander, there are really only two cards in the set that have made significant contributions – Merchant Scroll, and Memory Lapse. So, if you aren’t playing Blue …
Modern Horizons 3 comes out next month. Like the previous two sets in the series, I think it’s a pretty safe bet to assume that the cards in the set are going to have a massive impact on the format it’s chiefly designed for – Modern. However, it isn’t like Modern is the only format that Modern Horizons sets have …
Love them or hate them, bonus sheets have become a big part of Magic over the last couple of years. In this article I’ll talk about the pros and cons of bonus sheets, especially as they relate to Limited. A “bonus sheet” is a curated collection of reprints that appears in booster packs for a set. Today’s Play Boosters have …
Bloomburrow is Magic’s next Standard-release set, and we’ve been told that it’s a plane where there are no humans. This made me think of Lorwyn, another humanless plane. In my MTG Top 10 on the most important sets in the history of Magic, Lorwyn came in at #6. It introduced two new card types – Planeswalkers and Kindred (called Tribal …
People generally don’t think of Core Sets when they think of powerful cards. This is because Core Sets were intentionally designed to be an on-ramp for new Magic players. As a result, the cards are intentionally simplified. While cards can be powerful even when they don’t have that many words in the text box, it is a little bit harder …
Outlaws of Thunder Junction releases on April 19th! Among the various products available for the new set, there are four Commander Precons. As you can probably guess from the name, the Sultai Grand Larceny deck looks to steal your opponents’ cards and generate extra value for doing so! In this article, I’m going to look at the contents of the …
