Aetherdrift Draft Guide

Aetherdrift Draft Guide

Tom AndersonLimited, Products, Standard, Strategy

Get your wheels on the starting line and your foot on the accelerator, because it’s time for Card Kingdom’s Aetherdrift Draft Guide! The expectation for this vehicle-heavy set was that it would be a lightning-fast race to finish off your opponent… but in reality that’s only half true. It’s certainly an unforgiving competition though, so make sure you read on …

How Aetherdrift Mechanics Redefine Speed

Tom AndersonProducts, Strategy

I’m writing this piece after my first experience with Aetherdrift over the prerelease weekend and wow, what a rush that was!  I’m a “Melvin” according to Wizards’ well-known player profiles – meaning I’m most excited by cards which use the Magic rules in clever or exciting ways – and it felt like so much of this set really touched that …

How to Build a Foundation in Magic

Building a Foundation in Magic The Gathering

Chris CornejoProducts

Foundations is a set that’s all about making a new baseline for Magic. Cards from the set are going to be Standard-legal through 2029. So at least for the next half-decade, this set will be a good starting point to use for anyone. As the spiritual successor to the Core Sets, with a simpler design philosophy than other Standard-legal sets, …

What to Expect from Magic in 2025

Card KingdomCommander, Design, Legacy, Limited, Modern, Pioneer, Products, Standard

MagicCon Las Vegas happened this past weekend, and with it came a presentation from Wizards of the Coast breaking down what we have to look forward to from Magic in 2025. We’ve gathered that information here for you – so without further ado, prepare for THE FUTURE!  Ahem.  Anyway, the future starts with a look to the past:  Innistrad Remastered – …

Magic: The Gathering Core Sets - A Retrospective

Magic: the Gathering Core Sets – A Retrospective

Jacob LacknerDesign, Products

Foundations releases on November 15th [EDITOR – Card Kingdom’s Presale is live now!]. With its release we’re getting the most recent iteration of a Magic: the Gathering core set and this one is nothing short of revolutionary. However, core sets have been around since (almost) the beginning, and they’ve undergone several major changes over the years. In this article, I’m …

Duskmourn: House of Horror Early Shipping Deadlines

Card KingdomCardKingdom.com, Products

Duskmourn: House of Horror is swiftly approaching, and our Presale is in full swing! We’ve got some information below you may be interested in if you want to get your hands on the spine-tingling set as early as possible. For any orders containing only Duskmourn Sealed products (Play and Collector Booster Packs, Play and Collector Booster Boxes, Bundles, Commander Decks, …

Outlaws of Thunder Junction Early Look

Outlaws of Thunder Junction Early Look

Card KingdomCommander, Products, Standard

Modern Magic has been more expansive in its themes and settings; where in the early days every plane was some variant of a high-fantasy vaguely medieval world, things have opened up in recent years. From Gothic and Victorian Horror, Sherlock Holmes/Agatha Christie-style locked-room murder mystery, to technologically advanced Cyberpunk, the main story of Magic encompasses a lot more than it …

Science! Upgrade Guide

Science! Fallout Commander Precon Upgrade Guide

Kristen GregoryCommander, Products

Fallout is the newest Universes Beyond set, and it releases with four new Commander decks. Science! Is the Jeskai artifacts precon that focuses on the Energy mechanic. Energy was last supported in Kaladesh block, so how does the mechanic shape up with a dedicated Commander and new cards? Science! New Fallout Commanders The face Commander of Science! is Dr. Madison …

Mutant Menace Upgrade Guide

Mutant Menace Upgrade Guide

Chris CornejoCommander, Products

Mutant Menace, one of the new Universes Beyond: Fallout Commander decks, is a Blue-Black-Green deck that features one of the most popular deck themes, but with a twist. This is a counters deck, but not +1/+1 counters or anything like that; we’re working with the brand-new Rad counters!  The Wasteland of Fallout is an irradiated caricature of America, and one …

Hail, Caesar Upgrade Guide

Hail, Caesar Upgrade Guide

Tom AndersonCommander, Products

The big design challenge for Universes Beyond: Fallout is how to adapt such a sprawling, storied franchise into just four Commander precons. Wizards seems to have based each deck on one of the Wasteland’s largest and most recognizable factions, and then added other characters and references from the games which share a similar ideology. The Hail, Caesar precon deck is, …