Tag: Modern

Walking Ballista Variant Spoiled for MTG Aetherdrift

Walking Ballista is the type of incredibly powerful card that players have mixed feelings about. The card has become so powerful in past metagames that it threatened a homogenizing effect over the entire format. Similar to The One Ring, Walking Ballista is colorless, meaning everyone can run it. Currently, Walking Ballista is banned in Pioneer […]

MTG Aetherdrift Reveals Equippable Planeswalker Among 20 New Cards

The MTG Aetherdrift spoiler season has finally begun! New mechanics have arrived, boasting some powerful abilities for players to try. Most importantly, however, we have a batch of new spoilers to digest! Two Planeswalkers have been revealed this time around, departing from the one-Planeswalker set rule that we’ve become so used to. One of these […]

MTG Aetherdrift Spoiler Season Kickoff Starts Tomorrow

Even though prerelease for Innistrad Remastered just passed, we’re quickly speeding into Aetherdrift’s spoiler season. Beginning this Tuesday, Magic’s first Standard-legal tentpole set of 2025 is just around the corner. Here’s everything you need to know about the kickoff to Aetherdrift spoiler season. Aetherdrift Spoiler Season Kickoff Tuesday at 11:00 AM EST, Weekly MTG will […]

Multiformat Duskmourn Menace Hits $24 After Making Modern

Overlord of the Balemurk

Despite its aesthetic rubbing many players the wrong way, there’s no denying that Duskmourn: House of Horror is an impactful MTG set. The sheer volume of new archetypes and staples this set produced makes it fittingly scary. Even four months after release, Duskmourn cards are still making major waves and reinvigorating archetypes. Most recently, Overlord […]

Modern MTG Design Pushes Threats and Combos Beyond Their Limits

Power creep is not a new concept in MTG. Every year, it seems like cards are getting stronger and more efficient. This plays a massive role in how Constructed formats evolve. While power creep has its downsides, it isn’t the only issue we’ve seen that affects Constructed Magic over time. The bigger problem has been […]

Underrated Gems Are the Key to Conquering Oppressive MTG Format

Coming off one of the biggest ban announcements in recent years back in December, players were very eager to see how Modern would shake out. Four powerhouse cards were unbanned, opening the door for a wide array of possibilities. Unfortunately, while things looked promising in the first couple of weeks, the format has begun to […]

Unusual MTG Cascade Shell Features Lethal Combo Kill

As the Modern format has continued to evolve since the major ban/unban announcement in mid-December, it’s become clear that not all the unbanned cards are equal in impact. Mox Opal is a clear frontrunner with Grinding Breach already in ban discussion territory. Meanwhile Green Sun’s Zenith is not too far behind, playing a major role […]

MTG’s New Combo Overlord May Need to be Banned

Modern has been in a bit of a rough spot recently. Over the summer, Nadu, Winged Wisdom reigned as the all-encompassing combo menace. Once this bird was finally banned from the format things weren’t much better as Energy took over completely. Multiple combos rose up to try and tackle this archetype, but the only solution […]