On Channel, Bloodrush, & Combat Trick-Abilities

With Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty – NEO – having breathed new life into the Channel mechanic, it also helped remind me of a dream I had once had about actually being able to put my FMN-foil Skarrg Goliath into a deck. Of course, my meta was too fast and too cutthroat for hard-casting Goliath to be

Top Daily Art of Modern Horizons 2 (Spoiler Season: Tuesday 25th)

Hello again! God, we saw some fun cards on Tuesday, huh? Legendary Oozes with storm, ancient book characters finally getting cards, our first non-humanoid planeswalker… But they’re not why you’re here; you’re here for the art, right? You want me to rant about some of the art that showed up in Tuesday’s spoilers. Well, happy

Top Daily Art of Modern Horizons 2 (Spoiler Season: Monday 24th)

Hello again! The first piece in this series looked at the art of the cards shown before the spoiler season officially started on Monday the 24th. However, with those out of the way it’s time to look at Monday’s own cards. As you might have expected from this article’s title, I’m not here to address

Top Daily Art of Modern Horizons 2 (Pre-Season Previews)

Hello again! God, Modern Horizons 2 is off to a fun start. I loved our Monday spoils! And I do like a lot of the cards for their effects – even if I don’t have space for many in current builds – but beyond the tricks its the art I’m losing my mind over. A

Avenger, Lion-Namer, Dragonslayer: The History of Dakkon Blackblade

Hello again! Back when we first started getting details about Modern Horizons 2, you probably saw the armored figure pictured on the art for the draft and bundle boxes. Between that and Mark Rosewater’s hint that we’d be seeing a planeswalker that has only before been depicted as a creature, many fans had a good

Beyond Magic: What ‘Universes Beyond’ Might Mean For Long-Time Fans

Hello again everyone; and apologies for my absence the last month and a half. I should hopefully get my remaining Kaldheim articles written shortly, but I saw the announcement on Thursday and decided the only way to work through my thoughts on the matter were to sit down and write this out. For those of

Freezerburn Fists: Analysis of ‘Aegar, the Freezing Flame’

Hello again! So, apologies for this being up a day late; Gatherer seemed to be down a good chunk of yesterday for updates, and that impacted my ability to get this finished up as timely as I would’ve liked. The article that was actually due today might still get posted before the day ends, but

Start A Riot: Analysis of ‘Kardur, Doomscourge’

Hello again! Wow, we sure got a lot of cards on Monday, as well as quite a few legends. As compared to the weekend, where Vega was my only option for Saturday and Moritte was my only option for Sunday, today I was flush with options to pick from! I had five options to choose

The Thing In The Snow: Analysis of ‘Moritte of the Frost’

Hello again! God, for a moment I didn’t think we were going to get a legendary creature Sunday! However, as dusk turned to night, a figure came shambling closer out of the blizzard. Give a chilly round of applause for Moritte! Though 5CMC is a touch higher than I’d like, considering Moritte’s capabilities that is

Three Eyes Blind: Analysis of ‘Vega, the Watcher’

Hello again! Yesterday was something of a slow day for our spoiler season: whereas the last two days had around two dozen or more cards previewed, as of the time I write this we’ve seen just 13 for Saturday. That isn’t bad, but it does indicate that while WOTC isn’t going to entirely pause their