How to Build a Foundation in Magic

Building a Foundation in Magic The Gathering

Chris CornejoProducts

Foundations is a set that’s all about making a new baseline for Magic. Cards from the set are going to be Standard-legal through 2029. So at least for the next half-decade, this set will be a good starting point to use for anyone. As the spiritual successor to the Core Sets, with a simpler design philosophy than other Standard-legal sets, …

Miracle Worker

Miracle Worker – Duskmourn Commander Precon Upgrade Guide

Chris CornejoCommander

I’m pleased to say that Duskmourn: House of Horror is happily horrifying! There are tons of good cards that are all going to hit your wallet pretty hard. The Commander precon decks offer a quick way to get battling with the full Duskmourn flavor, and we’re here today to look at the Miracle Worker deck. And figure out how to …

Peace Offering Bloomburrow Commander Precon Upgrade Guide

Peace Offering Bloomburrow Commander Precon Upgrade Guide

Chris CornejoCommander

Bloomburrow brings with it four new Commander Precon decks, and today we’re focusing on Peace Offering, a rather curious idea for a precon. Not because it’s lackluster or anything like that, but rather because the archetype it embraces, Group Hug, is one of the most tricky and political archetypes to pilot. That said, the pieces are definitely already here for …

Eldrazi Incursion: Modern Horizons 3 Commander Precon Upgrade Guide

Eldrazi Incursion: Modern Horizons 3 Commander Precon Deck Upgrade Guide

Chris CornejoCommander

The Eldrazi Incursion Precon Commander deck from Modern Horizons 3 is one of the most aniticipated precons of all time, and now that we have the full decklist, it doesn’t disappoint! But just because the deck looks both powerful and like a ton of fun out of the box doesn’t mean there isn’t some room for improvement, even on a …

Desert Bloom Commander Precon Upgrade Guide

Desert Bloom Commander Precon Upgrade Guide

Chris CornejoCommander

Outlaws of Thunder Junction comes out next week as of this writing, and along with it are four Commander decks. Today, we’re going to look at the Desert Bloom deck, a lands-based Red-White-Green deck that has some serious potential lurking in its shell.  First, we’ll take a look at Desert Bloom’s two potential commanders, then run down the other completely …

Mutant Menace Upgrade Guide

Mutant Menace Upgrade Guide

Chris CornejoCommander, Products

Mutant Menace, one of the new Universes Beyond: Fallout Commander decks, is a Blue-Black-Green deck that features one of the most popular deck themes, but with a twist. This is a counters deck, but not +1/+1 counters or anything like that; we’re working with the brand-new Rad counters!  The Wasteland of Fallout is an irradiated caricature of America, and one …

Commander Masters Early Look

Commander Masters Early Look

Chris CornejoCommander

Commander Masters presale on cardkingdom.com starts today! The joke for a while has been that every supplemental set is just meant to add cards to Commander, but this set is explicitly meant to do exactly that! Featuring a ton of reprints (including new art treatments) and four Commander decks each with 10 new-to-Magic cards, we’ve gathered everything we know about …

March of the Machine Predictions

March of the Machine Predictions

Chris CornejoMagic Story

The story reveal and previews for March of the Machine are just around the corner, so you know what that means: time for me to make some predictions that we’ll very quickly get to see how wrong I am about! Elspeth’s Angelic Fate  There’s a lot of lore out there about Elspeth’s connections to Magic’s angels; just look at her …

The 10 Best Alternate-Art Judge Foils in Magic

The 10 Best Alternate-Art Judge Foils in Magic

Chris CornejoCommunity

There’s been a proliferation of fancy new art treatments for cards recently, with alternate frames, different foiling processes and tons of booster fun. But there’s one promo that remains attainable only by acquiring enough dedication, knowledge and passion for the game to become part of the very fabric of playing Magic itself… or just getting one of those folks to …

March of the Machine: Early Look

March of the Machine: An Early Look

Chris CornejoDesign, Products, Standard

With Phyrexia: All Will Be One fully released into the wild, and the resulting disaster of the Planeswalkers’ ill-fated foray into the metal plane ready to play out, it’s time to look at what comes next. March of the Machine is the next Standard set in the Magic storyline, and here’s a look at what we know so far.  The …