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Card Kingdom Shipping Update: August 2022 

Starting on Aug. 22, you will see a few changes to Card Kingdom shipping. These changes will include new shipping options as well as adjusting the prices of our existing options.   Our goal continues to be providing exceptional shipping experiences to our customers — getting you the cards you want when you need them. This includes providing flexibility in shipping ... Read More...
Combo Crash Course: Cephalid Breakfast

Combo Crash-Course: Cephalid Breakfast

This week’s combo breakdown tackles one of the longest-lived archetypes in Magic history — and one of its weirdest names (and there’s some stiff competition for that crown). It’s almost always combo decks that garner the most esoteric monikers among the community.  I blame the need to find distinct shorthand references for tons of specific strategies combined with their creators’ ... Read More...

Living Weapon – MTG Keywords Explained

Drawing a piece of equipment when you don’t have any creatures on board can sometimes be a bit of a letdown, as while you can get the equipment on the board, it can’t really help you out right away. Living Weapon from Scars of Mirrodin Block solves that potential problem. When you cast an Equipment with Living Weapon, as it ... Read More...
Seven Commander decks to own

Seven Decks Every Commander Player Should Own

Commander is, perhaps, the largest sandbox environment in gaming. There are countless commanders, cards and archetypes available — to the point where it’s impossible to build every combination. Many Commander players can struggle with this extreme level of choice, and decision paralysis is something I personally experience often when deciding on decks to build. However, there is a sort of ... Read More...
Efficiency in Modern

Examining Efficiency in Modern Magic

Magic has such a wide vocabulary associated with it that words begin to mean different things to different people. “Efficiency” is one such word, and its meaning has changed over the lifespan of Modern.  The technical definition of efficiency is, “the ratio of the useful work performed by a machine or in a process to the total energy expended or ... Read More...

The Winners & Losers of Standard Rotation

Standard has been good in 2022, particularly since the bans to Alrund’s Epiphany and Divide by Zero. Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty and Streets of New Capenna both managed to shake up the metagame despite the high power level of the established decks — the former by adding super-powerful staples to underplayed colors and the latter simply by bringing better manabases to ... Read More...
This day in Magic History Unglued

On This Date in Magic History: Unglued is Released (Aug. 11, 1998)

Welcome back to another edition of “This Day in Magic History.” Twenty four years ago today, Unglued ” was released as Magic’s very first joke set. The cards created for the set were intentional references and jokes about the game of Magic itself. This premise proved fairly popular, and since the 1998 release of Unglued we have seen three more ... Read More...