Top 10 Cards to Watch from the Magic: the Gathering Spider-Man Set
Marvel’s Spider-Man is the first mainline Marvel Universes Beyond booster product, and it’s fast approaching. There’s a whole Spider-verse of Spider-Mans out there, so we’ve condensed the highlights of the previews here: our top 10 cards to watch from Spider-Man. TOP 10 MAGIC CARDS TO WATCH FROM SPIDER-MAN 10. IMPOSTER SYNDROME Oh hey look, it’s the meme. Slow clap Yeah, ... Read More...
Did Spider-Man Learn Anything from Assassin’s Creed?
Magic players have become well-accustomed to Universes Beyond products of late. We’re reaching the point where it’s no longer a novelty seeing pop-culture icons clash with planeswalkers on the tabletop. But the upcoming Marvel’s Spider-Man release is an exception even in its own exceptional class. Despite a huge number of flashy legendary cards, with effects primed to appeal to casual ... Read More...
Is Spider-Man Too Small of a Set To Be a Good Limited Format?
Universes Beyond: Spider-Man releases on September 26th, and we’re already very deep into preview season. The set looks really exciting, featuring some cool new mechanics, and top-down designs of prominent characters and storylines from the Spider-Man franchise. With only 191 cards, it also happens to be the smallest draftable Standard-release set we’ve seen since 2015’s Fate Reforged. And unlike Fate ... Read More...
The Art of Having a Secret Commander
You might have noticed friends or other players talking about how their Commander deck has a “Secret Commander”. Let’s dig into what a “Secret Commander” is, why people have them, and the art of building your deck to take advantage of playing a “Secret Commander”. WHAT IS A SECRET COMMANDER When you build a Commander deck, you build it around ... Read More...
How Many Spider-Men Are Too Many Spider-Mans?
How many Spider-Men are too many Spider-Man? It’s a question I find myself asking as we head into Universes Beyond: Marvel’s Spider-Man season. As of the writing of this article, when you search “Spider-Man” on Scryfall, you get 13 different cards. That’s not including the additional “technically” Spider-Man creatures like Iron Spider, SP//dr, Piloted by Peni, or Spider-Ham, Peter Porker. ... Read More...
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...