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Reality Fracture preview season ends later this week and pre-releases and the official release on October 2nd are right around the corner. In addition to all the really cool and flavorful designs this set has to offer, it also has one of the best Magic stories for a very long time. In this article, I’m going to recap all the …
We’re just about to dive headfirst into Reality Fracture preview season. This set releases on October 2nd, and the presale for this multiverse-shattering set has already begun here at Card Kingdom. The set focuses on Jace’s construction of an alternate reality where none of the horrors of the New Phyrexian invasion ever happened. He’s attempting to overlay his new universe …
Secrets of Strixhaven comes out on April 24th, and we are deep into preview season for this intriguing new set, and the entire story has now been released. This marks our first return trip to the plane of Arcavios and its school of magic, which we first visited in 2021. If you want a quick crash course on the plane’s …
Secrets of Strixhaven releases on April 24th, and the set’s official story will begin in the very near future. Strixhaven is a magical university located on the plane of Arcavios. Secrets will be our second adventure set on the plane, with 2021’s Strixhaven: School of Mages introducing us to the plane. As such, I thought it would be a good …
Magic’s next set is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which releases on March 6th and is available for preorder here at Card Kingdom. Unsurprisingly, the Mutant, Ninja, and Turtle creature types are all quite prominent in the set. While “Mutant” might seem like the kind of creature type that is exclusive to Universes Beyond sets like TMNT and the upcoming Marvel …
Lorwyn is a fan-favorite plane despite not being well received on initial release. The hype for the revisit is building, but what about if you weren’t around for original Lorwyn / Shadowmoor sets? Here’s a quick rundown on inspiration and references in Lorwyn, from the original set through to the new Lorwyn Eclipsed. LORWYN IS CELTIC Let’s get the main …
Lorwyn Eclipsed comes out on January 23rd. While we’ve only gotten a glimpse at a few dozen cards in the set so far, the set’s official story came to a conclusion last week. In this article, I’m going to summarize this epic 7-part story into one digestible read. LORWYN-SHADOWMOOR: A PLANE OF DUALITIES It’s been a very long time since …
Light and shadow are no longer taking turns. In Lorwyn Eclipsed, the eternal day of Lorwyn and the endless night of Shadowmoor now exist side-by-side, their borders a shimmering, volatile aurora. Step across, and you don’t just enter a new land, you become a new person. Your memories rewrite themselves, your personality inverts, and the self you knew is left …
In terms of aesthetics, Magic has perhaps the broadest range of any tabletop game. And it gets broader all the time. From its high fantasy roots, traveling to different sets and planes have allowed us to see science fiction, westerns, classic mythology, magitek, cyberpunk, fairytales and even other pop culture IPs through Magic’s cardboard lens. But by far the most …
Happy Halloween week everyone! In observance of the holiday, it’s time for a spooky Magic article. Magic has a long history of designing cards and sets with horror themes. In fact, in the earliest days of Magic classic horror characters were lifted directly from the page and turned into Magic cards – like Frankenstein’s Monster and Headless Horseman. This practice …
