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There’s nothing quite like a good “Return To” set to get the imagination fired, is there? It might not be in the official title, but Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty definitely has all the extra hype potential of returning to an established setting. In fact, as I explained a few months ago, this is the #1 plane I’ve been most personally excited …
Editor’s Note, 2/18/22: Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty is now available at Card Kingdom. Magic has taken its first bold steps into the cyberpunk genre, as Wizards of the Coast debuted a wealth of information on the upcoming Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty set. Mark Rosewater and Grace Fong used yesterday’s hour-long Weekly Magic stream to show off key artwork and explain how Kamigawa …
The title of this series may be Combo Crash Course, but not all famous card combinations lead to the gameplay we would expect out of a “combo deck”. Combo decks are typically defined by their focus on building toward one explosive turn, often winning on the spot once their combo conditions are reached. That’s certainly the case for Splinter Twin …
Premier-level competitive Magic returned this weekend for the first Set Championship of the new season, featuring a mix of Standard and Historic. 252 invited players from the MPL, Rivals League and various qualifiers battled it out for glory and a spot in the 2022 World Championship event, with Yuuki Ichikawa emerging triumphant after Sunday’s grueling Top 8. As can be …
As of this Sunday, the Innistrad Set Championship is officially in the books: the first premier event in the new seasonal schedule leading towards the 2022 Magic World Championship. But even for players more interested in their MTG Arena daily quests than World Championship qualifier points, this weekend was among the most important tournaments of the year. Nowhere else will …
Wizards of the Coast has surprised players this week with the announcement of a new Arena-exclusive format, Alchemy. After trialing digital-only cards with Jumpstart: Historic Horizons, WotC is setting up Alchemy to be “digital Standard” – using the same rotating card pool, but with digital-exclusive cards and regular balance patches. And we’ll be able to try it very soon, with …
Fans of Limited Magic around the world are preparing for this weekend’s MTG Arena Open — the first time ever that the platform will pay out cash prizes for Draft. The two-day, high-stakes Arena Open events have previously featured Standard and Historic as well as Sealed, but organizing a satisfactory Draft experience for high-level play will be a new logistical …
Sweet Serra, is it really December already? It feels like only yesterday I was putting together the 2020 edition of what’s becoming our traditional recap piece, and despite WotC printing more new cards than ever in Magic history, it feels like few of them were immediate standouts. 2019 has cast a very long shadow — Throne of Eldraine only rotated …
Editor’s Note, 1/20/22: This article originally listed UNFINITY’s release date as April 1, 2022. The product’s release has since been postponed until the latter half of 2022. Magic‘s newest Un-set, UNFINITY, is officially counting down to blast-off. Lead designer Mark Rosewater gave us our first taste of the set this morning with a big preview article showing off the set’s …
I’m not sure what it is about the plane of Innistrad that keeps producing such historically cool draft environments. Is it the design teams at WotC working to live up to the staggering heights of the original Innistrad format? Or are the plane’s mechanical themes of graveyard value and tribal synergies simply a recipe for good Limited gameplay? I’m sure …
