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Welcome to the Card Kingdom draft guide for Avatar: The Last Airbender – the Magic set! I’ve already written and thought about this set and its mechanics quite a bit, moreso than I usually do before writing the draft guide. If you’ve been reading those pieces, then you’ll know my early opinion on A:TLA is very positive – and I’m …
Welcome readers, to the official Card Kingdom guide to Marvel’s Spider-Man Draft! Also known as Through the Omenpaths, Part 1 Draft for anyone on MTG Arena! This is a unique and weird set design with equally unique and weird changes to its default draft rules. If you want a rundown of the Pick-Two format and how it might affect your …
It may not be as exciting as seeing all your favorite comic-book characters come to Magic, but Marvel’s Spider-Man is also the harbinger of some big shifts in how we play Limited. Wizards has made it clear the set has been designed to be drafted with “Pick-Two” rules, where players get to take two cards instead of one each time …
Bonus sheets in Limited are a hotly contested topic. Do they make a format more exciting, or ruin it completely? After drafting a lot of Edge of Eternities, I can safely say that my mind is made up: they finally nailed how to do a bonus sheet without compromising Limited. EDGE OF ETERNITIES STELLAR SIGHTS The Stellar Sights bonus sheet …
Around the time of Tarkir: Dragonstorm, I reinstalled Arena, as I missed getting to do drafts as often as I used to. Now we’ve hit Edge of Eternities, I’m having a great time getting back into drafting. It also showed me just how rusty I was in some areas. GETTING BACK INTO BOOSTER DRAFT I kinda dropped off of drafting …
It might be weird to say I feel sympathy for a Magic set. But Edge of Eternities really got a raw deal: not only was its debut slotted between huge Universes Beyond sets like Final Fantasy and Marvel’s Spider-Man, but it also had the challenge of launching the game’s first “space fantasy” setting. Could this one release manage to make …
I’m not sure whether this counts as a hot take, but I think prereleases are by far the best event on the Magic calendar. They’re not just hype incubators for new sets like Edge of Eternities: I could go on and on with this kind of praise. But I assume that most of you like prereleases – or at least …
Final Fantasy has finally debuted in Magic, undoubtedly the event of the year for this game and one of the biggest products ever in terms of hype! While draft may not be the first thing most people are looking forward to with this release, I’ve come to expect the Limited design team at WotC will deliver every set. Fortunately, I …
As the name implies, Foundations aims to redefine and reaffirm the “default” gameplay and ideas of Magic. This modern take on a Core Set definitely seems like a Constructed-first product – understandable, given Standard players will be living in its shadow until 2029! But that also implies that Foundations sealed product will have a long run in stores, and that …
Duskmourn: House of Horror represents a departure from previous Magic design in many ways, setting new expectations for lore, aesthetics, mechanics, and color pie divisions. So of course, the Limited environment you’ll find within the shifting walls of this insidious House is just as strange and daunting as everything else about it! It would be all too easy to stumble …
