Evaluating the Avatar: the Last Airbender Scene Box Cards for Commander

Jacob LacknerCommander, Products

Avatar: the Last Airbender releases on November 21st. Alongside the release of typical products like Collector and Play Boosters, Avatar also has two scene boxes. We also saw these released alongside Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle Earth, and the Avatar iteration of these boxes follows that same structure. Each of them contains six exclusive foil and borderless Magic …

The 7 Best Horror References in Duskmourn

Jacob LacknerMagic Story, Products

Happy Halloween week everyone! In observance of the holiday, it’s time for a spooky Magic article. Magic has a long history of designing cards and sets with horror themes. In fact, in the earliest days of Magic classic horror characters were lifted directly from the page and turned into Magic cards – like Frankenstein’s Monster and Headless Horseman. This practice …

Lessons We Learned from Strixhaven

Jacob LacknerLimited, Products, Strategy

Magic’s next Standard-release set is Avatar: the Last Airbender, which releases on November 21st, and Card Kingdom’s presale starts today! We’ve already gotten a look at a significant chunk of the set, and I’m really excited about the return of one of my favorite mechanics – Lessons/Learn.  The first and last time we saw this mechanic was in 2021’s Strixhaven: …

5 Spookiest Types to Build Around

5 Spookiest Types to Build Around

Jacob LacknerCommander

We’re a little over a week into Spooky Season. Last week I looked at some spooky Commanders to build around this October, and I’m doing something similar this week – only I’ll be specifically taking a look at spooky creature types and my pick for the best Commander that best embodies what each of these creature types are all about. …

5 Underrated Commander Cards From Shadowmoor

Jacob LacknerCommander, Products

Lorwyn Eclipsed releases early next year, and it’ll be our first full-scale return to the plane since the original Lorwyn-Shadowmoor block which was released from 2007 to 2008. Lorwyn is a unique plane, because it transforms into Shadowmoor every several hundred years and vice versa. While Lorwyn is an idyllic world where it’s always daytime, Shadowmoor is the exact opposite …

Is Lizard, Connors’s Curse The New Oko, Thief of Crowns?

Jacob LacknerHistoric, Pioneer, Standard

Spider-Man releases on September 26th, and by now we’ve known all the cards in the set for quite awhile. In this week’s article, I wanted to discuss one card that I think is being overlooked – and it’s a card that I think it would be dangerous to ignore. Lizard, Connors’s Curse comes with an impressive 4-mana 5/5 trampling body, …

Which Commanders Benefit the Most from Spider-Man?

Which Commanders Benefit the Most From Spider-Man?

Jacob LacknerCommander

Marvel’s Spider-Man releases on September 26th, and as of last week we now know every single card in the set. While the set unfortunately doesn’t feature any Commander precons, the set does have several great cards for Commander, and offers a significant power up for many EDH decks. In this article, I’ll take a look at some the Commanders that …

Is Spider-Man Too Small of a Set To Be a Good Limited Format?

Jacob LacknerLimited

Universes Beyond: Spider-Man releases on September 26th, and we’re already very deep into preview season. The set looks really exciting, featuring some cool new mechanics, and top-down designs of prominent characters and storylines from the Spider-Man franchise. With only 191 cards, it also happens to be the smallest draftable Standard-release set we’ve seen since 2015’s Fate Reforged. And unlike Fate …