Only 90’s Kids Understand: Are Old-School Mechanics Still Useful?
Magic’s long and unbroken history of development makes it truly unique among strategy games – three decades of evolution and expansion, stretching back towards Antiquities. The constant churn of new cards and new mechanics keeps Magic fresh and current. It also creates something akin to “generations” in its audience. We each discover and learn the Magic of our own time, ... Read More...
How Hard Is it To Cast Anti-Venom?
Marvel’s Spider-Man is the next Standard-release set. You can preorder the set now, and it releases on September 26th. We’ve already seen a huge chunk of the set, and there’s one card in particular that caught my eye because of it’s eye-popping casting cost. Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer is the first-ever card to cost “WWWWW,” and only the 7th card in ... Read More...
Top 10 Best Equipment for Cheap Evasive Commanders
Equipment cards are often relegated to Equipment decks in Commander. That shouldn’t stop you considering them for your other decks, though – especially when you have a cheap evasive Commander. Two and Three mana Commanders wear equipment well, and if they have Flying, Menace, Haste or First Strike, they can get easy repeatable value. EQUIPMENT CARDS ARE GREAT FOR CHEAP ... Read More...
Commander Games Feel Fast These Days… And Here’s Why
Sometimes you sit down for what you expect to be a decent length Commander game, only to feel like the game ended in record time. Life totals melted, despite nobody being on combo. If you’re asking yourself why this is happening more often these days, then you’re in the right place. Let’s explore why Commander games feel so fast these ... Read More...
Is Spider-Man Good for Spider-Decks?
I don’t know if anyone has noticed this, but there are a lot of Spider-Man cards in Marvel’s Spider-Man! I don’t just mean cards that relate to Spidey or depict him in the art, that was to be expected. I mean there’s a shocking number of actual creature cards which represent various versions of Spider-Man. We’ve got Peter Parker and ... Read More...
5 Forgotten Creature Types That We Deserve To See More Of
Magic has 300 creature types, and there are new ones every single day. That’s not too surprising for a game that is 32 years old, and it’s certainly not a bad thing to have so many cool types of creatures. However, over the years I think there are a few exceptionally cool creature types that have fallen through the cracks, ... Read More...
Edge of Eternities Finally Gave Us a Good Bonus Sheet for Limited
Bonus sheets in Limited are a hotly contested topic. Do they make a format more exciting, or ruin it completely? After drafting a lot of Edge of Eternities, I can safely say that my mind is made up: they finally nailed how to do a bonus sheet without compromising Limited. EDGE OF ETERNITIES STELLAR SIGHTS The Stellar Sights bonus sheet ... Read More...