If you have played the game of Magic long enough, you’ve seen the game go through many, many changes. Most of them have been for the better, although sometimes it takes the Old Fogeys some kicking and screaming to come...
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Playing Red in Magic is a task-oriented ordeal. Generally, if you focus on accomplishing a single task instead of spreading your attention across many projects at once, you have a much better chance of reaching that goal in an effective,...
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If you’ve ever laid out a Commander deck, you probably have determined after a few times that there are certain categories that tend to pop up again and again in most of them in some capacity. Most of such card...
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One of the most common things players run into when having decks of more than two colors is finding ways of reliably generating the mana they need when they need it (which is usually now ). In general, this is...
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With a regular game of two-player Magic, you have a lot to focus on. You have your hand, what you currently have in play, available mana for your spells, colors of mana for said spells, life total, possible cards in...
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As the title probably gives away, we are going to talk about EDH / Commander for a bit. You should expect that here at the Cardboard Republic. When it comes to Magic: the Gathering, our focus is on formats and...
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As a long-standing casual Magic player, I spent most of my time as avoiding the big tournaments. I never really got into the different formats (everything I play is technically Legacy, but nothing on a tournament level). As a result,...
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