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What secrets does this seedy city hide? Magic: The Gathering’s spring 2022 Standard set, Streets of New Capenna, will officially release on April 29th. New Capenna features a bustling metropolis ruled by five families, all seeking power and fortune. Each clan aligns with a shard (three-color combinations introduced in Shards of Alara). MTG’s shards are best known … Read more

Time for the Mox Amber to shine. Moxen are historically a “broken” subset of cards. Letting you break the one-land-a-turn rule leads to incredibly unfair starts. Nearly every Mox has had it’s time to shine. The original five are restricted in Vintage. Mox Diamond is a powerful card in Legacy. Mox Opal and Chrome Mox are banned in Modern. Mox Amber hasn’t had … Read more

Commanding impressive prices. Magic: The Gathering can be an expensive hobby, especially Commander if you’re particularly driven to play the most powerful game pieces. For the most part, there are all kinds of budget alternatives: for every Gaea’s Cradle you have a Growing Rites of Itlimoc. However, that can’t be said for all the potential legendary creatures you … Read more

Riley delves into one of the most busted Magic: The Gathering sets ever printed. The other week, we looked at the most expensive cards in Urza’s Destiny and saw how these old sets really didn’t pull their punches when it came to power level. This week, it’s time for Urza’s Saga, and I tell you what, if you thought … Read more

Some of these may surprise you. You may not know it, but some of the most powerful Magic: The Gathering cards you play are (or were once printed as) Uncommons. Before Magic Boosters contained fifteen cards and Mythic Rares, many strong cards came in at the Uncommon rarity. Especially with releases such as Alpha and Unlimited, where Black … Read more

Premium Planeswalkers to pilfer your wallet. Planeswalkers are an enduringly popular card type in MTG. From generating value turn after turn to serving as control deck finishers or as the centerpiece of the Superfriends archetype, you can find these powerful game pieces ticking up loyalty counters on tables across the globe. While planeswalkers are largely … Read more

Don’t worry, it’s not just fetchlands Last week, we looked at the most expensive cards from the first Modern Horizons set, released in 2019. The original Modern Horizons had a huge impact on the Modern format, but this impact was dwarfed by that of 2021’s Modern Horizons 2. MH2 brought about a fundamental and seemingly irreversible shift within Modern, making … Read more

Dive into one of Magic’s oldest formats. For many Magic: The Gathering players, one of the most crucial aspects of the game is that their legal cards will always be playable in eternal formats. Legacy is the ultimate eternal format where every legal (not silver-bordered or acorn-stamped), printed card is available in the card pool, except … Read more

The right seasoning makes all the difference. There’s a lot that goes into making a Magic: The Gathering card. Of course you need an intricate design, striking art, and a memorable name… but every now and then, the one thing that ties everything together is the card’s flavor text. Flavor text is that tiny italicized … Read more

Get the lowdown on MTG’s biggest sibling rivalry. From one of the most important events in Magic: The Gathering‘s history, The Brothers’ War focuses on the historical conflict of Urza and Mishra on Dominaria. The Brothers’ War will be the final Standard set release of 2022, and the next Standard release of 2023 is Phyrexia: All Will Be One.  With that … Read more