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

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

Random Ruminations: What ‘Sengir, The Dark Baron’ Could Have Been

I was going through pages of the Magic wiki, and when reading up on the werewolf tribe throughout the game’s history, I came across the fact that werewolves came into existence – in the Homeland set and on the plane of Ulgrotha – due to Baron Sengir’s actions. When Eron the Relentless was given immortality,

Partner Predictions for Commander Legends: The Expected Pairs

It’s right around the corner! Commander Legends is almost here! You know what we need to do, right? If you said ‘make wild predictions about what we want to see – or what we expect to see – in the set’, then congrats on being right! (And before you ask: yes, I saw the first

My Critique of ‘Secret Lair: The Walking Dead’

You know, I wasn’t originally going to say anything about the new Secret Lair, but then I saw a few different responses on Twitter and it bolstered my agitation with the Lair enough to talk about them. I could talk about how Wizards would’ve been better doing a Walking Dead collaboration project five years ago,