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 …
Cantrips are some of the most useful cards in Magic, and come in all different forms. Scott ranks the Top 20 Cantrips of all time! Cantrips are a staple of almost every format. They can help smooth out a deck’s operation, sculpt the perfect hand for a combo turn, or be used as a cheap way to enable spell-based payoffs. …
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur’s Gate is right around the corner! Ahead of previews next week, Chris looks at what we already know. Streets of New Capenna is fully out in the wild, and while we’re having a blast with all the new goodies it brings, we also try to keep an eye on what’s coming up. Commander Legends: Battle …
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 …
Pioneer is a featured format in the return of Organized Play, and Michael’s here to take a deep dive into Rakdos Midrange decks in the format! Pioneer was one of my favorite formats before Covid shut down paper Magic for the better part of two years. With the upcoming Pioneer PTQ season I decided to get back into things ahead …
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 …
With Streets of New Capenna officially on the Standard scene, Mason takes a look at some of the top decks in the format! It’s been a while since we have covered Standard here in these articles. The last time we really checked in, Divide by Zero had just been banned. Now we are at the start of the long Streets …
Nizzahon joins the CK writing crew, jumping in with a look back at this day in MTG history and Pro Tour LA 1996! Hello Card Kingdom readers! I’m Jacob Lackner, and I’m a new columnist here on the Card Kingdom blog. You may already know me from my YouTube channel “Nizzahon Magic,” where I produce multiple videos a week covering …
Tom takes a look at the Riveteers Rampage Commander Precon deck, and has some suggestions for how to give it a bit of an upgrade! It’s been an intense, colorful release week for Streets of New Capenna, but don’t worry, we haven’t forgotten the final Commander Precon guide. It’s green, it’s black, and it’s ready (red-y) to throw down: it’s …
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 …
