The MTG Arena Player’s Guide for How to Play MTGO

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MTG Arena may be Wizards of the Coast’s premier free-to-play game, but depending on what you want to do in the game, Magic Online, or MTGO, can be significantly cheaper. Interestingly, depending on how far you want to deep dive into online MTG, MTGO gets much more affordable than MTGA. If you’re interested in playing […]

Online MTG Format is Finally Aligned with Paper Play!

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Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur’s Gate had a relatively minor effect on Eternal MTG play, with one exception. Sure, Displacer Kitten may have screwed up Commander a little bit, but one Eternal MTG format saw a total reworking from cards released in the set: MTG Pauper. Multiple Baldur’s Gate cards revolutionized the format as we […]

Back-to-Back Bannings Turns Back the Clock on This MTG Format

This year, Wizards of the Coast formed the Pauper Format Panel (PFP), a committee dedicated to the nuances of the Pauper format with the goals of balancing and fine-tuning it. The PFP was established in January and they’ve already made two, major Banned and Restricted announcements. Pauper B&R Announcements The Pauper Format Panel’s first bannings […]

Top 10 Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Cards for MTG Pauper

Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty shakes up the Pauper format in a big way. Several of the format’s best decks receive additional buffs. And the set also introduces Sagas at common rarity, which has never happened in Magic: the Gathering‘s history. Here are the best Pauper cards from Neon Dynasty: #10) Okiba Reckoner Raid For one mana, […]

MTG Announces Long Awaited Pauper Banned and Restricted Changes

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Since the announcement of the Pauper Format Panel last week from Wizards of the Coast, players had anticipated a new Banned and Restricted announcement for the much loved format. Well, the new panel got to quick work to drum up a brand new B&R for Pauper, hot off the presses! Let’s take a look at […]

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 […]

Is This the Worst Deck to Ever Win a Pauper Tournament? Or Is It the Best?

Often times, when big Magic: the Gathering tournaments happen, deck lists are posted and players flock to the standings to find new fun decks to play. Well, today Wizards of the Coast posted the standings for the Pauper Preliminary tournament on Magic Online. Let’s just say that the results were interesting. The Worst and Best […]