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-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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...