Trading card games may have been a novelty in the early 1990s, but ever since the success of Magic: The Gathering (MTG), millions of dollars have since flowed into collectible cards. MTG, Pokémon, and Yu-Gi-Oh! have been the franchises that have stood the test of time, but others like Flesh and Blood, MetaZoo, and Weiß …
Mana ramp comes in a lot of different flavors in Magic: The Gathering (MTG). Green is the best individual color in the color pie at performing this task, as it provides ample ways to put extra lands onto the battlefield from your hand or deck as well as efficient ways to add extra mana to …
Looking back at Magic’s extensive history, seeing how certain colors in the color pie evolved from their earliest card designs in Alpha to present day sets is very interesting. Some aspects, like blue’s affinity for countermagic or green’s affinity for efficient creatures, have remained the same. Others, like black’s relationship with mana acceleration, have undergone …
When a Magic: The Gathering player thinks of control, their instinct is to think of blue. With its wealth of efficient counterspells and card draw options, no other color comes close to blue’s prowess when it comes to picking and choosing what spells its opponents are allowed to resolve. Since card advantage and attrition are …
When playing in a Magic: The Gathering format where decks are typically built around a legendary creature, it isn’t exactly a revelation to point out that you should include the ability to answer said creatures while building your Commander deck. Spot removal, or spells that destroy a single creature, can definitely get the job done …
Each color in Magic: The Gathering‘s color pie excels at certain tasks, performing them far better than any other. For example, green is the best at mana ramp, black is the best at tutoring, blue has the best countermagic, red gets the best burn spells, and white is the best at mass removal (also referred …
Artifacts and enchantments are often the underappreciated heroes of Commander games. Ramping mana, providing utility, and changing the rules of the game to better suit their owners’ needs, it’s easy to forget that removal for these types of cards is as important as removal for dangerous creatures. Sometimes, even more so. When playing against decks …
Mana and tempo go hand in hand when playing a game of Magic: the Gathering (MTG). The more mana you have, the more spells you can play during a turn cycle to prevent threats from hitting the table, taking them off the battlefield, or simply stealing them for yourself. Unfortunately, blue really gets the short …