Magic is a game of percentages. Like any system that leverages math, probability, and statistics to gauge your best course of action, beneath the exquisite artwork and involved storyline lies a game with an extensive latticework of number-crunching that will...
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Today is an ode to many things. It is an ode to meticulous research. To continuity. To the powerful forces of nostalgia. To the desire to always be pressing forward. To the clear devotion many fans have for a hobby...
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At some point in their early Magic-playing lives, most people will learn about some of the game’s most basic creature abilities. These are the ones which largely showed up in the first few sets and have continued to make an...
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There’s an old mindset among the more alpha Magic players that casual Magic play is a less sophisticated approach, requiring less skill and less focus in order to succeed. Which, when compared to the stringent and often constricting deck building...
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When it comes to organizing and processing a group of, well, anything, you need to have a method. Whether it’s cataloging your collection of Norwegian reindeer stuffed animals or trying to corral a busload of unruly, fidgety preteens to ensure...
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Editor’s Note: While we don’t normally stop the presses for Monday Magic on this holiday, we are away this weekend. In the meantime, enjoy last year’s Columbus Day article, which somehow remains as true as ever… Today in the United...
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Despite all entreaties to the contrary there are certain cards that, no matter how much you try to make a case for, simply never make the cut in Commander decks. We’re not speaking of the chaff that appears in any...
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Dreams are a strange and wonderful thing. We barely understand how they work, but we do know that they are essential to our ability to function. We teeter back and forth as to whether the contents of our dreams bear...
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Casual Magic decks, by and large, truly are a reflection of the player crafting them. When given access to the cornucopia that is the entire Magic: the Gathering library to pick from (cost and availability being limiting factors), which cards...
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When it comes to diving into the lengthy and wide array of culture that surrounds Magic: the Gathering, new players can find it pretty daunting. Although your focus at the beginning is the immediacy of learning the game itself, once...
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