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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 …
Murders at Karlov Manor is about to shake up how we buy Magic cards, with Set Boosters and Draft Boosters both being replaced with a single product – Play Boosters. This is both a big change and a not-so-big change, depending on how you look at it. It will certainly impact the vast majority of players in some way or …
Murders at Karlov Manor brings us back the Ravnica, one of the most popular and impactful Magic planes of all time. Card Kingdom’s Presale of the set starts this Friday, January 12th, so ahead of that we’re going to tell you everything we know about the mysterious set! The Story A string of high-profile murders across Ravnica bring together an …
Every Magic set goes through an excitable honeymoon phase, and it’s only after the first few weeks of events that you can really measure their impact on the metagame. The top minds in Constructed Magic have had some time to thoroughly explore Lost Caverns of Ixalan, so which shiny new decks have emerged to flash their tournament potential? More importantly, …
The new cards from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan hit Standard this week! Fittingly, they’re about to enter a strange and deadly environment unlike anything ever seen before. Changes to Standard legality have led to a larger card pool and higher standard of card quality than in many other years, which makes it hard for new mechanics and archetypes to …
Even in an epic fantasy card game like Magic: the Gathering, populated by giants, dragons, angels, titans, krakens and demons, labeling something a “god” creates an extra layer of expectation. A god card has to feel powerful, and in a unique way that sets them apart from other high-impact creatures. Some games might elevate them above the mere mortals by …
Other than mighty dinosaurs and mythical treasures, the big theme in The Lost Caverns of Ixalan is exploration and discovery — the different factions of pirates, vampires, merfolk and native Oltcec all racing to reach the mysterious Core. This journey to the center of the Earth is represented in-game not just by the explore keyword action, but the signature, transforming …
We return to the Meso-American inspired plane of Ixalan in the upcoming The Lost Caverns of Ixalan, and there’s a lot going on in this set that we already know about. That said, without any official story released yet and scant few cards previewed, a lot is still up in the air. So, let’s make some predictions about what’s in …
Update (11/02): Wizards of the Coast has announced production issues for The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Collector Boosters. As a result, we are unable to ship preorders of The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Collector Boosters within the timeline below. No preorders containing Collector Boosters will be cancelled, and we will fulfill them as soon as we have the product in hand. Our expectation is we …
To enfranchised Magic players, rare lands are always headline cards for any new set. The availability of color-fixing lands is a huge factor in deciding the metagame of a format, especially the presence of multicolor aggro decks. But despite this vital role, there’s usually not a lot interesting to say about the cards themselves. But that’s different for Cavern of …
