Magic: The Gathering

I'm building a new Commander deck for Magic: The Gathering, and in doing so, I have set aside two others from my collection to take apart in the process. Sometimes an idea seems fun at first, but loses

...'MTG?.., the flirty young maid who doubles as a sex slave sounds vastly more interesting'...

Time for a break from serious posts & deep thoughts. It's game night! I am not the most proficient Magic: The Gathering player. I do not have an encylopedic knowledge of cards, combo pieces, and keywords.

First off, the title is metaphorical, not literal, so cool it. That's one of the ways a black deck usually plays: my life total is just another resource to be spent. If my opponents bleed out before I

Long ago, when trading card games were brand-new, people didn't sleeve their cards. They played them naked, completely unaware that their cardboard game pieces might one day buy a freakin' house. As time

Magic: The Gathering has spawned many variant formats developed by the community. Commander is by far the most famous, now an official format with wide product support. Some would say this has done more

This is a cross post of @jacobtothe/jump-scare-a-commander-deck-review by @jacobtothe.Big monsters leaping out of the shadows, plus new Archenemy rules and cards!

Way back in January, I wrote a post about my attempt to build Wilson, Refined Grizzly and the Flaming Fist background into a voltron-style commander with +1/+1 counters and pump spells. After some playtesting,

Magic: The Gathering features five colors of cards representing different philosophies of gameplay and deck design. It took a few years for the ideas to settle into a permanent pattern, and there are points

I wrapped up my series about pauper decks a couple weeks ago, but I've been considering new ways to upgrade or even replace them. White The soldier deck is slow, perhaps unavoidably so, just because of

After a round of playtesting, I've made some substantial changes to the deck list from the last post. Sideboard Sidetrack The following thirteen cards have been moved to the sideboard. The links to their

There are three basic kinds of players known by nicknames in the Magic community. There's a comprehensive article on the official website, but in short there's Spike the tournament player who wants to

This is the fourth post in a series of pauper deck lists I'm sharing to introduce different ways of playing Magic: The Gathering. The first was blue mill, second was red burn, and most recently, I covered

In the last two installments of this pauper deck series, I covered a blue mill deck and a red burn deck, each with a secondary aggro combat strategy. The white deck is up next, and it's all about going

A few weeks ago, I wrote about my Pauper Mill deck experiment. That blue deck was only the start, and there are four more colors in the traditional Magic color pie. My goal is to build several simple decks

Over the years, I have written a lot about Commander decks for Magic: The Gathering, but little on the traditional 60-card formats. This is because I don't have any interest in keeping up with the rotation

I've been pretty well knocked out by illness and subsequent slow recovery for the last couple weeks, but I'm getting back on my feet bit by bit. While on a recent trip into Spokane to assemble a flat-pack

Back in November of 2018, Wizards of the Coast launched a series of Ravnica Guild Kits including cards from previous sets in their popular Ravnica setting where a plane-spanning city is divided among 10

Magic: The Gathering (MTG) differs from other collectible card games in its embrace of alternative rules and formats. Broadly speaking, there is only one way to play Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Lorcana, or other

I've noticed something odd about my decks. I don't know what others usually build, but mine lean heavily into token swarms. This isn't deliberate. I like horde armies in various games, but it's not a theme