Up until now, the word “toxic” in Magic referred to behavior that made people not want to play with you anymore. With Phyrexia: All Will Be One, we now have the Toxic mechanic, meaning I can title this article “How to Be Toxic” and mean it without suddenly becoming a terrible person of one sort or another. But as we’ve …
The Brothers’ War: Modern Preview Highlights
The Brothers’ War is around the corner, and a new set preview always comes with cards that have the potential to impact Modern. From what we’ve seen so far, The Brother’s War is heavily artifact focused, which almost always lands a couple cards into older formats, especially with Karn, the Great Creator and Urza’s Saga running around. Of course, there …
The Brothers’ War: Pioneer Preview Highlights
The holidays are coming early this year, as preview season demonstrates that The Brothers’ War is just a mono-cool-cards set. Let’s not waste time hyping it up and jump right into five cards that will make an impact in Pioneer. The Stone Brain This card is the talk of the town right now, even though it looks like just another …
The Brothers’ War: Standard Preview Highlights
It’s time for another Standard set preview season — but anticipating the reveal of The Brothers’ War has been a very different experience. Unlike most new sets, we already had a very good idea of the story, characters and setting. It’s essentially a remaster of the earliest Magic fiction. But at the same time, we had very little idea of …
An Early look: The Brothers’ War
Well, that was a busy September, wasn’t it? Dominaria United released, and then we went through two full preview seasons for the Warhammer 40K Commander decks and Unfinity. With those two supplemental products coming out soon, we finally have a chance to relax, take in everything and slowly look forward to…wait. Oh. Well. Never mind, time for The Brothers’ War! …