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The Designs of Innistrad
August 31, 2021
10 min to read
With Innistrad spoiler season about to begin, we look back on one of the most influential sets of all time: the original Innistrad.
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The Designs of Jumpstart: Historic Horizons, Part 2
August 24, 2021
13 min to read
With white and blue in the rear view mirror, how do the remaining designs of Jumpstart: Historic Horizons stack up?
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The Designs of Jumpstart: Historic Horizons, Part 1
August 17, 2021
8 min to read
How do the designs of Jumpstart: Historic Horizons stack up?
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The State of Magic in 2021
August 3, 2021
10 min to read
Magic got a lot right this past year and made a fair amount of mistakes.
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Historic and Digital Divergence
July 27, 2021
9 min to read
With 31 digital-only cards and three digital-only mechanics, Jumpstart: Historic Horizons rocks the boat more than the usual Arena announcement.
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Bone Shards: Death for Death
June 15, 2021
9 min to read
Bone Shards is awesome. Bone Splinters is weak. Why are these two spells so different and how did we get them?
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Subtlety’s Choice
June 1, 2021
5 min to read
When did Magic embrace tucking/topping effects and why?
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Design of a Card: Yusri, Fortune’s Flame
May 25, 2021
5 min to read
Magic is a game of risk and reward. Yusri explicitly and expertly epitomizes this element.
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Does Magic Still Need Reach?
April 27, 2021
7 min to read
Over the years, Magic has added new mechanics and benched the underperformers. Is it time to drop Reach from the starting lineup?
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Learning Lessons
April 20, 2021
5 min to read
Learning is awesome, both in life and in Strixhaven draft.
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Design of a Card: Professor Onyx
March 23, 2021
8 min to read
Strixhaven preview season preempted itself with one of the most unusual Lilianas ever. Dive into the design of Professor Onyx.