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Anyone who’s seen enough spy movies or political dramas has heard the line: war is brutal, but it’s good for business. War allows you to capture territory, resources or valuables from your enemy as spoils of victory, and as history’s oldest jobs program it often sparks a boom in national economies. This thinking doesn’t typically apply to Magic, where combat …
Murders at Karlov Manor has four Commander precons: Blame Game, Deep Clue Sea, Revenant Recon, and Deadly Disguise. What manner of exciting Commander playables abound? Kristen has the lowdown on the more attractive pickups if you’re after some singles – or an excuse to pick up a precon. MURDERS AT KARLOV MANOR PRECON CARDS Let’s not break with tradition and …
The Dark is one of Magic’s oldest sets. It released on Aug. 8, 1994 and was the game’s fourth expansion. There are two cards from the set that see heavy play in Commander — Elves of Deep Shadow and Fellwar Stone. These two cards provide a great mana boost very efficiently. While they certainly deserve to be the two most …
Murders at Karlov Manor comes with four new Commander decks to check out. With strong new cards and reprints of classic staples, each precon is shaping up to be great. Revenant Recon is the blue/black precon, and this heavily surveil focused list has plenty of room for upgrades. Revenant Recon: New Commanders Before we get into how to improve the …
Murders at Karlov Manor has four new Commander Precons. This time around, they each focus on a particular mechanic. Deep Clue Sea is a Bant deck that is all about leveraging your clue tokens for serious value. In this article, I’ll review the new cards that appear in the deck and suggest some budget upgrades. INVESTIGATING THE NEW COMMANDERS This …
Murder mysteries and vast, magic-soaked cityscapes are two great tastes that go great together, which is why the Murders at Karlov Manor Commander precons explore how different tropes from the whodunit and film noir genres fit into the beloved setting of Ravnica. And while Deadly Disguise is all about playing cards face-down to obscure your true plans, our upgrade guide …
Murders at Karlov Manor comes with four new Commander decks to check out. With strong new cards and reprints of classic staples, each precon is shaping up to be great. Blame Game is the Boros precon, and this time, it’s a Goad deck. How does it play? How do you upgrade it? Check out our upgrade guide and review below. …
Ravnica: Clue Edition (or Ravnica: Cluedo Edition, for the Europeans) is a new ancillary product releasing alongside Murders at Karlov Manor. It adds a fun new gameplay variant wherein players play a game of Clue while playing multiplayer Magic. Of course, it also comes with new cards. So, what’s in the box? WHAT’S IN RAVNICA: CLUE EDITION? Ravnica: Clue Edition …
Prophecy often makes the shortlist of “Worst Magic sets ever,” and I’m not here to tell you that that title is entirely undeserved. When it comes to 60-card formats, the set hasn’t done a whole lot. Prophecy was considered weak when the set was released and it hasn’t done anything over the last quarter century to change that. When it …
It feels a little strange to say that Commander players are overlooking the Ikoria companions. After all, very few cards in Magic history have ever felt the spotlight so brightly as that ten-card cycle! In their heyday, they inspired such unprecedented moves as the first balance-motivated ban in Vintage, a card being preemptively banned in Commander prior to release, and …
