All Articles

Teval took the throne. Muldrotha is misunderstood. Here's which graveyard commander actually wins games in 2025.

One postcombat trigger. Thirty red mana. The table knew what was coming and it did not help them.

The set hid real tournament engines under the superhero costumes. Here are the 20 that actually matter.

Your land slots are losing games you never notice. Here is what goes in them instead.

The format runs faster now. These cards haven't kept up, and your deck is paying the tempo cost.

Most players pick ninjas or dragons. The ones winning run one feedback loop that does both.

One card can silently push a casual deck to bracket 3. Here is every Game Changer ranked by how much it actually warps

One word in oracle text defines both keywords. Most Commander players are wrong about which threats it covers.

The precon stalls at turn five every time. A $21 package fixes the engine and gives Dina a real kill condition.

No, Yuna's second ability only triggers when another permanent you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield. Yuna's own death does not trigger the ability, so you won't get to tutor or put cards onto the battlefield when Yuna itself is destroyed.

Killian does the politics himself. Your job is to build the enchantress engine around him.

The precon collapses when Viscera Seer dies. Here is the $25 fix that makes that failure condition irrelevant.

The precon muddles three strategies and commits to none. Here is how to fix it for $50 and make the rabbit actually go

Most players know one of the three eligibility categories. The other two are where LGS disputes happen.

Most Imoti pilots build a ramp deck. Build a cascade engine instead and the whole deck clicks into place.

Most ramp advice hands you a number. Here is the framework that explains why your ramp is failing.

Irma is a blue staple hiding in a precon. Splinter is more broken than the ninja-tribal crowd admits. Here's the real

All 20 new legendary creatures from Secrets of Strixhaven ranked worst to best, with honest takes on which commanders are sleepers, which are traps, and why

No, you cannot combine them. Per Magic rules, a spell can have only one alternative cost applied. With Lorehold in play, you can cast Cyclonic Rift for {2} via miracle—but this produces the non-overloaded version that returns a single target nonland permanent. To use the overloaded 'return all...

No. When a saga re-enters with Doubling Season in play, it receives 2 lore counters immediately, which causes both Chapter I and Chapter II to trigger simultaneously on the same turn. Chapter I is not skipped—both chapters fire at once because the lore counters satisfy both thresholds together.

Tishana's Tidebinder targets the triggered ability on the stack (such as a chapter ability from a saga like Bahamut), not the permanent itself. Because that ability belongs to a creature, the permanent then loses all its abilities as a consequence of the ability being countered.

Urza's Saga's chapter-granted abilities survive Blood Moon because the effects that grant those abilities operate in Layer 6 (ability-adding), which is always applied after Layer 4 (type-changing, where Blood Moon operates). This is determined by layer sequencing, not by timestamp priority.

Secrets of Strixhaven reprinted Force of Will at one-per-pack rates and stapled storm to a 7/7. Here are the 20 cards actually worth building around or buying

The bracket system works only if you stop rating your deck like your own driving. Here is how Game-Changers, turn thresholds, and honest self-assessment

From Phelia's friendly Bracket 2 grind to Brago's combo ceiling, we rank every blink commander in 2026 and call out which popular picks are just blink-adjacent

The 2026 saga rules update is two separate changes, not one. Here is exactly how Doubling Season now accelerates non-Read Ahead sagas, why Urza's Saga survives

No, Urza doesn't generate extra mana beyond what your artifacts would normally produce. Instead, his ability lets you redirect untapped artifacts to produce blue mana instead of their normal mana. You're choosing how each artifact taps each turn, not adding an extra tap to the same artifact. The...