: Card of the Month - March 2012 - Trinisphere
Trinisphere is one of the few cards that were created for Eternal formats; in fact, it was never played in Standard or Extended, while it's so dreaded by Vintage players that it was necessary to add it to the restricted list; being able to cast it in the first turn of the game in a format full of spells that cost 1 mana is just devastating. Ano ...
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: Card of the Month - February 2012 - Splinter Twin
This month, we aren't going to talk about a card; we are going to talk about a group of cards that are reigning the Modern format: the Splinter Twin / Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Pestermite / Deceiver Exarch combo. How the combo works is well known to all of us who participate in competitive tournaments: using the activated ability of Kiki-Jiki ...
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: Card of the Month - January 2012 - Garruk Relentless
Mark RosewaterBefore Innistrad got released, just like for all the expansions, there were rumors about the new cards. One of these rumors was from a very reliable source (Mark Rosewater) and it was about a planeswalker with five abilities. Until that moment, there was only one planeswalker with more than three abilities, Jace, the Mind Sculptor, ...
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: Card of the Month - December 2011 - Tree of Redemption
Finally, a mythic that doesn't win games by itself! Tree of Redemption is definitely a quite unique card, both as impact on the game and as rules. About its playability, this is a creature that costs 4 mana, doesn't attack, deals no damage; indeed, nothing special at first glance. Let's change point of vie ...
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: Card of the Month - November 2011 - Snapcaster Mage
This card is considered "very powerful" in Standard and "amazing" in eternal formats. In Standard, it can be a very useful tool for any control deck: it can attack, it can be a surprise blocker, and it can give card advantage by allowing us to cast a spell from our graveyard for a second time. A single card doing all this is simply very powerfu ...
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: Card of the Month - October 2011 - Daybreak Ranger
After the Morph ability and the cards that rotate (the flip cards from the Kamigawa block), Innistrad introduces in our game a new mechanic that transforms the cards on the battlefield: this new mechanic is named Transform and it looks more extreme than Morph and Flip. A card that transforms has two faces; it doesn't have a single face and a sta ...
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: Card of the Month - September 2011 - Phantasmal Image
"What's the coolest creature you saw copied by Phantasmal Image this weekend?" Top 8 players at GP Pittsburgh were asked this question. All of them had a story to tell and the winner, Yuuya Watanabe, apparently had a lot of fun copying his own Sun Titans (and much more). Phantasmal Image is surely a card with great potential, which can be part ...
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: Card of the Month - August 2011 - Fireball
"The ball" has been with us since Alpha and is an iconic spell for a few reasons. First, let's imagine we are exploring a traditional fantasy world, like Dungeons and Dragons, the ultimate spell everybody knows is the FIREBALL! Let's then think about our beloved game of Magic; Fireball is part of one of the first combos in the history of the gam ...
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: Card of the Month - July 2011 - Tezzeret the Seeker
It looks like Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas is still waiting to express himself at his full potential. Surely, we need to note that it's more difficult to add to a deck, compared to his other fellow planeswalkers. Garruk Wildspeaker and Ajani Goldmane, for example, are monocolored and work well as a support to any creature-based strategy. You can bu ...
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: Card of the Month - June 2011 - Spellskite
Spellskite has a quite special ability, that involves one of the most interesting and confusing parts of the rules; you know what I mean if you have ever played or judged a tournament with the major representative of this category: Misdirection. We might even say that the powerful instant spell from Mercadian Masques has been reprinted under th ...
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: Card of the Month - May 2011 - Sword of Feast and Famine
Swords, introduced in the Darksteel set, have returned in the Scars of Mirrodin block. Sword of Body and Mind and Sword of Feast and Famine proved to be extremely powerful and found theirs slots in several decks, both in Standard and in Extended. This is surely due to the existence of Stoneforge Mystic; we might even play a single copy of the e ...
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: Card of the Month - April 2011 - Oracle of Mul Daya
"2/2 for four mana". "It's played in constructed". Did you hear what I heard? Indeed, these two sentences look really weird, but they are true for a very few cards. Sometimes, the real power of these cards is due to their abilities like flying and others (like Sower of Temptation and Blazing Specter), or they are the "enchantments made creatur ...
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: Card of the Month - March 2011 - Wurmcoil Engine
Wurmcoil Engine is surely a bomb in Limited, and also appears in a few Standard and Extended decks, either in the sideboard or in the main deck. Explaining why this card is strong is a little awkward; 6/6 for six mana is "playable", but there are a few other interesting effects: Two keyword abilities (death ...
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: Card of the Month - February 2011 - Pyromancer Ascension
The oldest players will surely remember the archetype called Counter-Burn, a blue-red deck with no creatures, full of card drawing spells, counterspells and burn spells. At the beginning, burn spells are used to kill creatures; at the end, they have the goal to get the opponent to zero life points. The Pyromancer-Combo, one of the strongest dec ...
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: Card of the Month - January 2011 - Vendilion Clique
A few months ago, out of the blue, Wizards of the Coast announced a major change in the Extended format: the format, which allowed to play all the cards from about the last 20 to 25 sets, is now limited to the last four years' sets. As soon as the announcement was made, several cards significantly increased their value; some of these cards are ...
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