Can We Reconsider Blocks In Magic: The Gathering?

If you’ve only started playing Magic: The Gathering in the last three years or so, then you might not know that the double-feature of Innistrad: Midnight Hunt and Crimson Vow, used to be how MTG was released. It used to be that we got to spend a bit of time with each plane before moving […]
Do Zombies Really Need Another Lord?

We think it’s probably fair to say that Zombies are a pretty popular tribe in MTG. In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to talk to a Commander player who hasn’t at least messed around with them at some point. We’ve built Zombie decks a few times ourselves because it’s hard to resist the tribe that refuses […]
The Coolest Parasitic Commander Mechanics

If you’re looking to build a deck and finish it, then these might be the best places to start.
Where’s The Werewolf Commander Deck?

All of the other spooky tribes are nice and all, but where on Innistrad is the fluffy lot and their Commander deck?
Historic is Broken, Here’s How to Fix It

We are a now about 2 weeks in from the release of Jumpstart: Historic Horizons on Magic Arena, and about a week and a half away from the release of Innistrad: Midnight Hunt on Arena. The Metagame around Historic has settled into a problematic state. Let’s examine the meta and ways that Wizards of the […]
Powerful MTG Card Reprinted in Innistrad: Midnight Hunt

We just had a bombshell dropped on us today for Innistrad: Midnight Hunt previews. Mark Rosewater, Lead Designer for Magic: the Gathering, threw a few teasers to us before preview season started. One of the exciting ones he mentioned was that “a popular Innistrad card will be reprinted”. Notice that Innistrad is italicized, which means […]
MTG Players Joke Causes Wizards of the Coast to Take Action

Last week, we covered a story around a Pauper Preliminary on Magic Online that had some interesting results. When I wrote the article, we had very little information around what had happened and why. We thought that there was an organized player protest of the state of the Pauper format. Well early this weekend I […]
Zombies May Be Back on the Menu in new MTG Standard

Standard Rotation in Magic: the Gathering is only a couple weeks away, and with preview season for Innistrad: Midnight Hunt in full swing, we’re getting some sense of what deck archetypes are getting support. We know that there’s various tribal support coming in Innistrad from Werewolves, to Vampires, to Humans. But one of the tribes […]
Everything We Know About MTG’s Innistrad: Midnight Hunt – Release Date, Previews & More

Get the details on the upcoming gothic horror Standard set.
Blood Moon Might Be Coming Back To Standard in MTG, and Here’s Why

Today is the first day of Preview Season for Magic: the Gathering‘s newest set, Innistrad: Midnight Hunt. We were given some plot points and shown some cards in the upcoming set. A few days ago, the lead designer of the set, Mark Rosewater, provided some teaser hints at cards that are coming in the set, […]