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Card of the Day Archive

Every card we’ve spotlighted, newest first. 135 picks on record.

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  • Format mover

    Stifle

    Stifle answers the things Counterspell can't touch: triggers and activated…

  • Budget gem

    Impact Tremors

    Two mana, and every creature you play pings the table for 1.

  • Rules

    Mental Misstep

    Mental Misstep only hits spells with mana value 1, and players keep misjudging what…

  • Budget gem

    Psychosis Crawler

    Seventy-one cents buys you a five-mana body that drains the table every time…

  • Budget gem

    Fact or Fiction

    Nineteen cents buys you instant-speed card advantage where your opponent does…

  • Format mover

    Mana Drain

    Mana Drain is the card that turns a counterspell into a tempo swing…

  • Combo

    Food Chain

    Food Chain turns one creature on the board into a pile of mana…

  • Rules

    Clone

    Clone is a 13-year-old rare that still trips people up on what it actually copies.

  • Rules

    Dualcaster Mage

    Dualcaster Mage keeps tripping up players because it copies a spell…

  • New / spoiler

    Draconic Visitor

    A 5-mana 5/5 flyer that turns every artifact token you make into another 5/5 flyer.

  • Format mover

    Urza, Lord High Artificer

    Urza quietly turned blue artifacts from a pile of rocks into a deck that wins…

  • Combo

    Force of Will

    Force of Will is the free answer that lets a combo player go for it into open mana…

  • Salt pick

    Seedborn Muse

    Seedborn Muse is the card that makes everyone else at the table feel like they're…

  • Rules

    Doubling Season

    Players keep asking how Doubling Season stacks with Vorinclex and other doublers…