Unearth is a graveyard mechanic from Shards of Alara block found exclusively on creatures. It’s essentially creature Flashback; a way for you to get a one-shot use out of the creature from the graveyard. When a creature with Unearth is in your graveyard, you may, at sorcery speed, pay it’s Unearth cost. You then return the creature to the battlefield, …
Double Masters 2022 is shaping up to be an earth-shaking set for Pauper, and Scott takes a look at some of the most exciting rarity changes! Double Masters 2022 is here, and with it come a slew of much-needed reprints for all formats. Many players are over the moon to see Imperial Seal’s first real reprint, Force of Negation’s reprint …
Sagas, in Magic and in life, are meant to tell a story. While sagas are among the oldest forms of formalized storytelling that exist in human history, in Magic, they’re pretty new. First appearing in Dominaria in 2018, they’ve appeared every year since. They almost missed 2019, but Urza’s Saga in Modern Horizons kept the streak going. They have now …
Grixis Death’s Shadow is on the rise in Modern, recovering from Lurrus largely thanks to a card Michael is a big fan of – Ledger Shredder. Just earlier this year Grixis Death’s Shadow was one of, if not the best decks in Modern. Then came the Lurrus ban, GDS players had to figure out if the archetype was still playable. …
Magic’s 30th anniversary is coming up, and Tom takes a look at how the game has changed over that span – and how it’s stayed the same! Get ready for a celebration – after WotC’s big announcements last week, it looks like Magic’s 30th anniversary year is officially about to kick off! (Unofficially, it might be pointed out that the …
Pioneer got a bit of a shakeup recently with some bans, so Mason pauses to take a look at the metagame ahead of RCQ Season. It’s been a couple of weeks since the Pioneer banning of both Winota and Expressive Iteration. We have had some results and the players have rushed to figure out the format with the RCQ season …
Double Masters 2022 is a reprint set, which means old cards get fancy new art…sometimes from some familiar names! Being a set composed entirely of reprints, Double Masters 2022 can’t give us much that counts as purely new. All the cards already exist (with a lone exception for Cryptic Spires), so while previews allow for excitement over some welcome reprints, there’s …
Exalted is one of the most enduring combat mechanics to come out in a while. It literally exalts one of your creatures per combat. Exalted is a combat mechanic that can appear on any permanent type. It triggers when a creature you control attacks alone. That creature will get +1/+1 until the end of the turn for each instance of …
Scott gives us an overview of the Artisan Commander format, Commander variant that cuts out all Rare and Mythic cards. Power level talks and rule zero discussions have been a hot button topic in the Commander community recently. Everyone wants to have a good game, and to have some agency in how that game plays out. I previously wrote a …
It’s preview season for Double Masters 2022! Courtesy of Wizards of the Coast, we have a couple of free preview cards to show off! Or, if you want to see them in a slightly more silly way, head over to our TikTok. We have two cards from the new set for you today, one that’s probably a little more Limited …
