Drawing Live
Kaldheim First Look
January 5, 2021
7 min to read
Kaldheim season is almost here, but there’s already plenty of cards to gush over and learn from.
Designing for Best of One
December 29, 2020
9 min to read
Magic Arena, Hearthstone, Legends of Runeterra, and Eternal all tried their hand at solving the problems with best of one.
Creating Good Choices
December 22, 2020
5 min to read
Kaldheim’s Modal Double-Faced Cards might be much harder to design than Zendikar Rising’s.
Design of a Card: Goblin Piker
December 15, 2020
6 min to read
Goblin Piker hasn’t been printed in a long time, but it continues to spawn legions of new designs.
Magic: the Netflixening
December 8, 2020
10 min to read
What happens when you compress ten weeks of play into two? Magic’s Netflix era.
A Gruul Change of Heart
December 1, 2020
5 min to read
Magic’s most stubborn color pair needs a makeover.
Parallel Designs in Commander Legends—and Beyond
November 17, 2020
8 min to read
What do Command Tower, Thought Vessel, and Simic Signet all have in common (besides being in Commander Legends)?
Cascading a New Theme
November 10, 2020
6 min to read
Commander Legends takes one of Magic’s sweetest mechanics and makes it even better.
The Lost Year
October 27, 2020
3 min to read
Commander Legends is the latest exciting Magic release to miss its day in the sun.
Design of a Card: Mardu Outrider
October 20, 2020
7 min to read
You might not have heard of the Standard-legal Mardu Outrider, but you definitely know its ancestors.
The Path Forward
October 14, 2020
5 min to read
Standard is in a problematic position, but within that problem may lie Standard’s salvation.