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A Magic collector’s dream. Magic: The Gathering continues to expand into the collector space in a tremendous way, offering timely yet limited releases on desirable cards from the growing Secret Lair Drop Series. Since its inception in 2019, the Secret Lair Drop Series has gone from strength to strength, adding a mixture of reprints and new-to-Magic cards, even some … Read more

Want to metagame your Commander pod? Here’s how. Magic: The Gathering’s five colors are a unique aspect of the game and a differentiator from other collectible trading card games. Playing one or more colors in a deck offers players many card choices, strategies, and deck-building decisions. However, not all colors in magic fully complement each … Read more

Thanks to Wizards of the Coast for the spooky reveal! Duskmourn: House of Horror is the fourth Standard release of the year and is shaping up to be exciting in addition to being just, well, horrifyingly gross. There’s a ton of love and attention put into Duskmourn, such as the fantastically designed Haunted Screen to my favorite in Veteran … Read more

What does the controversial new booster type mean for you? On Monday, the 16th of October, thousands of Magic players tuned into the Wizards of the Coast livestream in anticipation of the latest Banned & Restricted List announcement. Would The One Ring get the axe in Modern? Would Splinter Twin finally be given another chance to shine? Surely they’d … Read more

Bring a spark of joy to your Commander games. Planeswalker is a card type in Magic: The Gathering, first introduced in 2007. Well-known cards like Jace, the Mind Sculptor and Liliana of the Veil possess planeswalker typing. Close to 300 planeswalker cards exist in MTG (including cards with planeswalker backsides) as of the time of writing. However, March of the … Read more

Getting the most out of your investments with rotation in mind. Ah, Standard. For over a decade, it was the primary engine of the tabletop Magic economy. Then came Commander, the pandemic, the erosion of organized play, and the rise of MTG Arena. By late 2020, Standard playability would barely move the needle on a card’s … Read more

No, #1 isn’t Force of Will. Usually, when examining old sets filled with expensive Reserved List cards, there’s no reason that the cards are expensive other than the fact that they’re on the Reserved List. Today as we go all the way back to 1996’s Alliances, however, things are a little different. Many of the Reserved … Read more

A home run for (bonus) value. The collectability of Magic: The Gathering is becoming more prominent than ever before, which is something you wouldn’t imagine at the turn of the decade. With the introduction of Collector Boosters with an extensive range of frames and foil treatments, Wizards of the Coast are tapping into the collector market as … Read more

Modern Horizons 3 reprinted the rest, but is it time to buy? Modern Horizons 3 has been out for almost exactly a month, and prices have begun to settle down. While Phlage, Titan of Fire’s Fury, and a few other breakout cards have soared in price, most other cards have already lost much of their pre-order hype … Read more

It’s a big wasteland out there, unless you’re a cEDH player. Back to the Wasteland! Universes Beyond: Fallout is here, it’s settled. People have gotten their chance to look closely at the Commander Precons and give their opinions on the effects it will have on the singleton and eternal formats such as Legacy (spoiler, the consensus is … Read more