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Managing Mini-Mechanics
March 3, 2020
8 min to read
Mini-mechanics are coming to define modern Limited, and that’s a problem.
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Evaluating Escape
December 17, 2019
5 min to read
Not to be confused with the Piña Colada song.
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Alternate Resource Mechanics
December 3, 2019
11 min to read
What do Food, Clues, Treasure, and Energy tell us about each other?
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This Product Is Not For You
November 26, 2019
11 min to read
Musing on life inside and outside the target audience.
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Trouble on the Curve: The History of Three-Mana Planewalkers
November 25, 2019
5 min to read
The rise and rise of the undercosted game-changer.
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Answering the Threat of Invalidation
October 29, 2019
11 min to read
This is the story of how Hornet Queen and the Mythic Invitational lead to Oko, Thief of Crowns and Field of the Dead.
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The Elusive White Whale
October 15, 2019
10 min to read
Why has white been so bad in Limited for so long?
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The Designs of Eldraine
October 1, 2019
11 min to read
The land of fairy tales and knights is full of exciting, bizarre, and fascinating card designs.
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Telling Stories with Cards, Part 3
September 17, 2019
8 min to read
What storytelling innovation did Ice Age, Invasion, Ravnica, Amonkhet, and Magic Origins each introduce?
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Telling Stories with Cards, Part 2
September 10, 2019
8 min to read
Magic has been telling stories on single cards for a long time, and then Innistrad came along.
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Telling Stories with Cards, Part 1
September 3, 2019
6 min to read
Part one of a three-part series of the history of narrative design in Magic!