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Invasion is one of the most important sets in Magic history. Released in 2000, it represents both a very important moment in the history of Magic design, and an equally important moment in Magic lore. In the story, Invasion and its Block (the subsequent sets Planeshift and Apocalypse) was the culmination of several years of Magic story. The Phyrexian invasion …
As you probably know, it was recently announced that we’re going to be getting a whole lot of Universes Beyond sets in 2025, and they’re all going to be legal in Standard. These are sets that are based on an IP other than Magic: the Gathering. This got me thinking about our first Standard-legal Universes Beyond set – 2021’s Dungeons …
Innistrad has to be one of my all-time favorite planes in Magic. The mix of gothic horror, the sublime, and the introduction of eldritch horror later on was all right up my street. Innistrad also has a whole host of great Commanders to try, and this week, we’ll look at some underrated and underplayed options. Previous entries have looked at …
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 …
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 Horrors preview season is almost upon us. From what we’ve seen so far, it appears to be an Enchantment-heavy set, even featuring Enchantment creatures – something that we usually only see on the plane of Theros. This led me to start thinking about original Theros. Overall, it’s been a highly successful set when it comes to just …
Duskmourn: House of Horror preview season is just around the corner. This modern horror-inspired plane is going to be perfect for the spookiest season of them all. I thought that also meant this would be a good time to take a look at underrated Commander cards from Magic’s first visit to the gothic horror-inspired plane – Innistrad. Overall, Innistrad has …
Bloomburrow is Magic’s newest set and it’s very focused on creature types. However, it’s not the first time we’ve had a set with a very focused typal theme – that was 2002’s Onslaught (Or at least, that’s the first time they did it successfully. They tried several years earlier with 1994’s Fallen Empires, but we know how that went). Despite …
