New MTG Archetype Creates Life in Dead Format
One of Magic’s premier high-stakes events, the Arena Championship, began today. 32 top-tier players from around the world would battle for the chance at pride, glory, and large sums of money. Unfortunately, with the format being Standard, there wasn’t much room left for a new MTG deck to emerge. After all, Rakdos Midrange had held […]
MTG Deal Accidentally ‘Leaks’ Upcoming Major Bans
Formerly MTG’s flagship format, in recent years, Standard has been seriously struggling. Growing stale thanks to overpowered, but not necessarily broken cards, while prices soared, the format lost its luster. With many players happily switching to Commander, this didn’t seem like the end of the world. Thankfully for Standard MTG fans, however, Wizards is now […]
MTG Standard Changes Couldn’t Have Come at a Worse Time
In case you’ve somehow missed all the hubbub about it, recently, Wizards announced truly major changes to the Standard MTG format. Continuing the roughly two-year cycle of rotation changes, this time, Wizards is pivoting Standard to a three-year structure. Coming into effect with the launch of Wilds of Eldraine, this MTG set won’t trigger the […]
Top 12 Best MTG Aftermath Cards!
Even though MTG’s March of the Machine: The Aftermath is one of the most controversial sets released in quite some time, the cards being released in the set are good. Only a few days after the official release of this set, the contents of it are already topping big online tournaments. The cards have given […]
The MTG Ban List Schedule is Being Completely Reworked!
This week’s Weekly MTG announcement was a doozy for many MTG players. While, once upon a time, this was meant to be a first look for the upcoming Commander Masters set, it was instead restructured to address the changes happening to the Standard format, and holy crap, was there some stuff announced. For those who […]
MTG Pro Tour Breakout Card Sees Huge Financial Uplift!
As mentioned in our weekly financial roundup, the Pro Tour has just ended. As per usual, especially in an open format like Standard, innovations made at the top level have begun to cascade down the ranks. The card wasn’t quite spiking when we did our last roundup just a day after the Pro Tour concluded, […]
WotC Addresses Concerns About Upcoming MTG Rules Change
In case you missed the major MTG news from last weekend, this year, Standard is getting a major rules change. Or rather, Standard isn’t getting a major change, as rotation is being pushed back by a year. Shifting from a two-year to a three-year rotation, Wizards of the Coast is hoping to revitalize the format. […]
MTG Fans Displeased With Aftermath Duplication Issue!
Players are beginning to open the first mini-set that Magic: the Gathering has ever offered! We’ve never experienced this, so there are bound to be some unexpected occurrences with the first 50-card set. It’s not even set release day, and the few who have opened some packs are posting their contents and… there’s an unsettling […]
Top 5 Most Expensive MTG Aftermath Cards
March of the Machine: The Aftermath is something that we’ve never seen before. Even though there are only 50 different cards in Wizards of the Coast’s first mini-set, each one has a ton of varying art treatments, making financial assessments a bit unique. As has been seen with Innistrad: Double Feature, scarcity, even in recent […]
Wizards of the Coast Is Overhauling the Flagship MTG Format!
Initially created all the way back in 1995, Standard, or Type 2, is one of the oldest formats within MTG. Despite this pedigree, however, the format has undergone various major changes throughout the past 28 years. In fact, as a rather small-scale MTG format that receives new cards regularly, it’s almost always in a state […]