Modern Madness continues, if you hadn’t caught onto this week’s theme. Since the manabases in Modern can get greedy with their shocks and fetches and other color-providing wonder, is a common sideboard hate card to punish those greedy manabases. A whole board of colorfixing goodness, turned into nearly worthless Mountains for the low low price […]
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Tournament Tuesday: Dark Confidant at Competitive REL
As expected, Modern Masters has created quite a stir, and we’re looking at GP Las Vegas in just a couple of weeks, where Modern Masters sealed will be the format. On top of that, there’s plenty of people drafting their MM boxes right now, and a lot of people looking to get into the format […]
Melira and Inkmoth Nexus
Infect! Quite the polarizing mechanic in most areas, it was either considered laughably bad or stupidly broken depending on who you were talking to. It’s gained some traction lately with eggs-in-one-basket rush decks, especially in Modern, and it’s possible you might run into a Pod deck running and you want to know how it interacts […]
Punish the Enemy can resolve with only one target
When casting a spell, you have to select a legal target for each instance of the word “target” in that spell. So for , you need to be able to target both one creature and one player to cast it — although the creature doesn’t have to be controlled by the player you targeted, and […]
Pit Fight Won’t Trigger Blaze Commando
is a Minotaur Soldier, which is a pretty sweet creature type you don’t see every day. He also has an triggered ability you don’t see very often, one that triggers whenever an instant or sorcery spell you control deals damage. This trigger is a little tricky to understand, but the important thing to realize is […]
Understanding Possibility Storm
Oh, the possibilities! is already a favorite of mine because of the sheer hilarity and chaos it can cause. It’s also seeing play in several EDH decks for that same reason, and even made an appearance at the most recent Pro Tour due to its ability to blank in some matchups. So with the possibility […]
Tournament Tuesday: Card Alters and You
One of Magic’s most appealing features is the card art. After all, a card’s illustration is bigger than its text box! Some people go the extra mile and alter their cards — from adding details to the illustration, to extending the illustration to the edge of the card, to creating “textless” cards. As beautiful as […]
Sunpetal Grove Loves Hallowed Fountain
Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Shock. Today we get to explore something that didn’t really come up much until we Returned to Ravnica and had the Shocklands back in Standard alongside the M10 and Innistrad ‘taplands’. One of the reasons that the shocklands are so amazing as far as color-fixing […]
Elvish Archdruid Won’t Trigger Gyre Sage
If there’s one thing Elves love [beyond having Hobbits do their dirty work, but that’s another plane entirely], it’s mana. Lots and lots of mana. Enormous, obscene piles of green mana, ready to be converted into an astoundingly large spell, or into many little elves, who will make even more mana. Continuing the trend of […]