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So to talk about hidden agenda, we first have to talk about conspiracies. A conspiracy is a special card type that has appeared in, fittingly enough, both Conspiracy sets. They are only legal in Limited formats, and do not go into your deck. Instead, at the start of the game, you may place any number of Conspiracy cards into the …
Surprised to see another Draft Guide already? Sure, not all of us have quite had our fill of The Brothers’ War just a month after I previewed it here on Card Kingdom. But trust me — this is a special occasion. Dominaria Remastered is only the second remaster set to receive a full paper release, and it’s very different compared …
Dethrone is a creature mechanic that triggers when a creature with it attacks the player who has the most life in the game, or is tied for having the most life. When they do, the creature gets a +1/+1 counter.And yeah. Pretty simple stuff here. There’s a few notes, but nothing too tricky. You have to attack a player for …
We as magic players love to have all the answers. How often have you heard players say, “Oh this deck isn’t good,” or, “This deck needs a ban,” only to have time prove them wrong? Magic players are really good at finding a thing that works and then saying, “why play something else?” This is a totally reasonable stance for …
Tribute is a mechanic that appears on creatures, and is a little odd in that it gives your opponents the choice of how it resolves. When you cast a creature with Tribute, as it enters the battlefield, your opponent chooses whether or not it enters with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number written next to …
Chances are if you’ve played Modern on Magic Online or in a paper tournament of any significant size recently, you’ve likely run into Rakdos Scam. This deck’s path to becoming the Modern boogeyman is an odd one for sure, and today I want to dig deeper to see what about today’s metagame allows it to be the top dog. I …
Modern, as a format, has always been propped up by a “you can do whatever you want” mentality. However, during the last year, Yorion made playing creature decks in Modern incredibly difficult due to cards like Solitude, Fury, Prismatic Ending and Unholy Heat. The good news for creature fans in Modern is that many of these cards are on the …
Standard has had a few weeks to percolate since we first touched on it after The Brothers’ War released. But Standard is a big, wide format right now, with many viable archetypes floating around. And since it’s still too early to gauge which decks will settle into the various tiers, I’m not even going to try quite yet. Instead, here …
Bestow is an alternate casting cost that appears on Enchantment Creatures, so we’re getting pretty specific already as those are somewhat uncommon to begin with. If you cast the Bestow creature for its normal mana cost, it enters the battlefield and behaves like any other creature spell. If you choose to cast it for its Bestow cost, it instead enters …
There’s no such thing as a free lunch, and likewise, no such thing as “free” in Commander. Kristen is here to help us with some cost-benefit analysis. Everyone loves free, right? Free bonus cards in your Secret Lair; free door-prizes at the LGS, a free drink with your meal deal. But none of those things are ever truly free. The …
