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A few weeks ago I wrote about Foundations and the history of core sets more broadly. There, I discussed the fact that they are intended to be beginner products that help introduce new players to the Standard format, especially. This is often achieved by more simplified designs that help introduce players to the game’s basic mechanics and themes. For the …
Jumpstart 2025 is a supplement booster set that releases alongside Magic: the Gathering Foundations on November 15th. As with past Jumpstart products, you and your opponent simply buy two booster packs and shuffle them together to make 40-card decks. And then you’re ready to play. These boosters all have themes, so you end up with what feel like very synergistic …
It’s Halloween week and that means it’s time for a Halloween-themed article. Magic has no shortage of super spooky Magic cards. There’s even a card that directly references the holiday itself, in the form of All Hallow’s Eve. While there aren’t any other cards that directly reference the holiday, there are tons of cards that have Halloween vibes. In this …
Magic’s next standard release is Foundations. Preview season begins later this week and it releases on November 15th. It’s the first time we’ve seen a core set in four years. If you want a deep dive on core sets and their history, I wrote an article about that last week. Suffice it to say that core sets are beginner products …
Foundations releases on November 15th [EDITOR – Card Kingdom’s Presale is live now!]. With its release we’re getting the most recent iteration of a Magic: the Gathering core set and this one is nothing short of revolutionary. However, core sets have been around since (almost) the beginning, and they’ve undergone several major changes over the years. In this article, I’m …
Alara was designed as a multi-color matters block that was especially focused on the three-color shards. Alara Block is even where we get the shorthand names for each of the three color shards: Bant (Green-White-Blue), Grixis (Blue-Black-Red), Esper (White-Blue-Black), Jund (Black-Green-Red), and Naya (White-Red-Green). The third and final set in the block – Alara Reborn – takes this multi-color focus …
Fallen Empires is often considered one of the worst Magic sets of all time. The set has a famously low power level. This isn’t a situation where power creep is why the set is considered bad, either. People thought the set was bad when it came out back in 1994, too. Only a handful of cards saw play in 60-card …
Right now in the Magic story we’re in the midst of what Wizards calls “The Dragon Storm Arc.” While we don’t know all the details of what this story entails, we do know that the arc will culminate with a return to Tarkir – a plane with more dragons than any other. We saw our first hint of this in …
Duskmourn: House of Horror releases on September 27th. And that also means we got some spooky Commander precons. I’ve already written about how great Manifest Dread is going to be in Duskmourn Limited, and in this article I’m writing about the Jump Scare! precon, which is all about manifesting dread and startling your opponents by turning your face-down permanents into …
We’re in the midst of Duskmourn: House of Horrors preview season and it releases later this month, on September 27th . The set contains lots of really cool mechanics, but the one that has caught my eye the most is “Manifest Dread.” In this article, I’ll break down how the mechanic works and how I think it’ll perform in the …
