This New Baldur’s Gate Card Is Simply Too Much!
As a digital-only set, Alchemy Horizons: Baldur’s Gate allowed Wizards of the Coast to get creative with some of the set’s cards. This has allowed the introduction of new mechanics, Specialize and Double Team. However, it’s not all good news. Alongside tweaks and mechanics that make parsing cards easier, Alchemy Horizons: Baldur’s Gate also makes […]
This NEW Alchemy Horizons Infinite Combo Could Break Historic
The MTG Arena version of Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur’s Gate, Alchemy Horizons: Baldur’s Gate, is right around the corner. We’re getting a bunch of previews of cards and the digital only mechanics that are being implemented in the spirit of Battle for Baldur’s Gate mechanics. One of those mechanics is “Specialize“, which seems to […]
This New Alchemy Mechanic Might Come to Paper MTG
As Alchemy Horizons: Baldurs Gate’s brief spoiler season comes to a close, we’re left with a trio of new mechanics to digest. After picking Double Team and Specialize apart, we now set our sights upon Boon. Unlike the other new Alchemy Horizons: Baldurs Gate mechanics, Boon won’t be exclusive to the MTG Alchemy format. Triggers, […]
MTG Lead Designer Talks the Future of MTG Set Blocks
If you’ve played Magic: the Gathering for a while, you may remember that when Wizards released new sets, they were done in 3 set blocks. This was done during a point in time when the story of Magic was really being expanded. But back in 2015, Wizards decided to go change this into the 2 […]
Brawl’s Best Player Doesn’t Even Have to Play the Game
Typically, winning a Magic: the Gathering tournament takes a lot of skill. Not only do you have to build a winning deck, but you’ve also got to be able to pilot it against fierce competition. If that sounds like too much trouble, however, there is thankfully an alternative: playing MTG Brawl. While you’ll still need […]
Creatures Are Two for the Price of Two With This New Arena Mechanic!
With Alchemy Horizons: Baldur’s Gate’s spoiler season well underway, we’ve got a trio of new mechanics to admire and assess. Specialize has already proven itself to be a confusing beast of a mechanic, but thankfully the same cannot be said for Double Team. MTG Double Team essentially lets you play creatures twice in a surprising […]
Specialize Is Already Full of Missed Opportunities
The spoiler season for Alchemy Horizons: Baldur’s Gate is well underway, giving us a first taste of the new MTG Specialize mechanic. This new mechanic has introduced five unique transformation variants for several new and reimagined cards. Unfortunately, however, not all these cards, and their variations, have been created equal. Most MTG Specialize cards that […]
This Sick MTG Deck Will Have You Stomping the Competition
As the dust settles over the Explorer format, we’re left with a few decks standing tall at the top of the metagame. Rakdos Midrange, Mono Red Aggro, Azorius Control, Esper Greasefang and Fight Rigging variants all command a fairly equal share of the meta at the moment. But say you don’t want to play one […]
MTG is Having an Identity Crisis
This is the point in MTG history that the players never wanted to see. A recent backlog of mistakes and questionable decision-making has put MTG in an awkward spot. With constant errata to overpowered mechanics and overly complicated card text that needs to be simplified, there is an aggravating amount of variance in what a […]
The Best Thing About MTG’s Double Masters 2022 Isn’t the Reprints
Double Masters 2022 preview season is in full swing, and boy what a set it is. It’s chalked full of highly sought after reprints for a bunch of formats, especially Commander. There’s some high quality cards here, but that’s not the best thing about this set. Top Tier Reprints The reprints are pretty top notch. […]