Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Legacy”
The buzz this week has all been around spoilers for our next Universes Beyond set: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I’m not familiar with any of the brand’s incarnations, but if I had any expectations for the set going in it would be some new Mutant, Ninja and Turtle cards – and of course I was right. The goal of Universes …
We’ve had our first potential Commander previewed from Secrets of Strixhaven, and it’s really cool. RW gets Lorehold, the Historian, a cost reducing, miracle making rummager. Here’s the lowdown on how she works, and some sweet synergy cards to check out if you’re building her. LOREHOLD THE HISTORIAN Secrets of Strixhaven brings back the Elder Dragons in charge of the …
Lorwyn Eclipsed brings new typal synergy cards for eight main types plus Changelings. With cards for Elementals, Elves, Faeries, Giants, Goblins, Kithkin, Merfolk and Treefolk, who are the real winners of this expansion, and who are left wanting more? Let’s dive in. CHANGELINGS: BIG WINNERS First up, let’s get Changelings out of the way. They’re not a typal deck so …
The power level of Magic cards is not static. This is because new cards are created all the time, creating a brand-new context for your cards every time that happens. This often leads to cards that were once viewed as useless or uninteresting suddenly getting a major upgrade, sometimes decades after originally being printed. So, get out your shoe boxes …
Updated 8/21/2025 Deck building is fundamental to the game, but we know how tedious it can be to search up each individual card and add each to your cart. We built the Deck Builder tool to make finding the cards for your deck easier and faster. Keep scrolling to find more about this tool, and how to use it! What …
Graveyard decks have always been a huge part of Magic, ever since the first Animate Dead was used to cheat out the first Lord of the Pit or Shivan Dragon. But if you broaden your definition beyond simple reanimation, almost every deck has some way to get value out of the yard – and if yours doesn’t, you’re probably not …
If the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk has a lesson, it’s that drawing cards in older formats is good. This is the reason players are trying to see how high Up the Beanstalk can go in formats like Pioneer, Modern and Legacy — right? OK, that may not be the lesson from Jack and the Beanstalk, but the part …
This week, Wizards of the Coast announced their last Banned and Restricted update before switching to a new, yearly cadence in October. But while conversation in the community was blowing up about targets for Modern and Pioneer, every possible option escaped the hammer. Instead, Wizards of the Coast actually unbanned two cards, one in Modern and one in Legacy. The …
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth brings us the newest Magic mechanic “The Ring Tempts You.” Naturally, once players saw the ring tempts you in stages on a track that exists outside the game, comparisons to the Initiative mechanic started flowing. Is being tempted by the ring going to be as format defining in Modern as taking the …
Despite the online grumbling, Eternal Magic is a lot of fun! With the widest pool of cards legal to play, you can sleeve up the idealized version of your favorite strategy from the game’s entire 30-year history and take on the world. Of course, while sitting down to play doesn’t always work out quite as advertised, the 7-Point Highlander format …
