Future Sight Scorecard

Future Sight was one of our favorite small sets. The premise is terrific — cards from the future! The set included 81 cards with a special “from the future” card frame. The idea was that these cards were from the future, just as Time Spiral had had cards in an old frame from the past, [...]

Greenouts

Here is part five of our foray into the psychological effect of seeing hybrid cards as only one of the colors that can cast them. It’s easy as casual players to accidentally think of hybrid cards as only going in decks of all their colors. Green is perhaps the most interesting of the series, with [...]

Unsplit Cards

What do you think of the playability of these? Have we been overlooking these in casual Magic? If so, what does that say about the split cards they came from?

Blueouts

Here is part four of our psychological experiment in looking at hybrid cards as just one of the appropriate colors. It’s easy when building casual decks to think of hybrid cards as only going in two-color decks while forgetting that they go in monocolor just fine. Blue’s noncreatures are not full of too many surprises, [...]

Redouts

Here is part three of our psychological experiment in visualizing hybrid cards as cards of just one of the colors that can cast them. When you look at hybrid cards for your casual deck, it’s easy to see them as only going in decks of both colors when one color can cast them just fine. [...]

Whiteouts

Here is part two of our toying with the psychological effect of seeing hybrid cards as monocolored versions. When you’re building casual decks, it’s easy to forget that these cards run in monocolored decks just fine. Part one is here.

Blackouts

Riddle: What do the following “blacked out” photochopped hybrid cards have in common?

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Mirrodin Besieged Spoiler Up At Wizards

You’ll find it here.

What We Know About Magic: The Gathering

Well, some of it anyway. The first 7000 words.
Written for BGG, so you’ll find it here.
- Jan. 8, 2009

Totally Awesome Thread

Go read this.

Zendikar’s Basic Lands

Cthulhu And Pals

One of our intrepid correspondents, am statham, was experimenting with the idea of Lovecraftian planeswalkers. Here’s how some of them came out.

Five-Color Lands On A Budget

Conflux is going to make casual players want to play five colors.
However, really good five-color lands can set you back quite a bit. If you’re just playing casual Magic, City of Brass might seem a little expensive. Even just one Gemstone Mine, which only taps for any color a few times, will set you back [...]

Frankenstein’s Monster Math

For BB, what do you get with Frankenstein’s Monster? A 0/1.
For 1BB?  A 2/1, a 1/2 or a 0/3.
2BB: 4/1, 3/2, 2/3, 1/4 or 0/5.
3BB: 6/1, 5/2, 4/3, 3/4, 2/5, 1/6 or 0/7.
4BB: 8/1, 7/2, 6/3, 5/4, 4/5, 3/6, 2/7, 1/8 or 0/9.
5BB: 10/1, 9/2, 8/3, 7/4, 6/5, 5/6, 4/7, 3/8, 2/9, 1/10 or [...]

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