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https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/october-17-2017-banned-and-restricted-announcement-2017-10-17 No changes to any formats. Once again, Spidey is slow on the draw. I thought about waiting but I want to whine about Legacy!

A while back, I tentatively decided not to write more front-page articles, and instead to focus on forum-based content. This was something that I was, and still am, a bit torn on. On the one hand... Writing forum posts is easier than preparing and submitting articles. If I see a typographical...

Well, I was doing one of these threads covering another zero-drop artifact, Zuran Orb, and it got me thinking about my favorite zero-drop artifact of all time: Black Lotus Mana Crypt Mox Sapphire Spellbook Ornithopter Lion's Eye Diamond. But seriously, I love the card. Also, this one gets really...

Looking at an old deck, it occurred to me that I used to use Zuran Orb all the time, but that I don't think I've seen it used in years. Well, the previous thread I made was about Evolutionary Leap, a card that came out relatively recently. By default, I've only seen Evolutionary Leap used in the...

Spidey hasn't made one of these threads yet. Usually he does it, but it looks like this time I'm beating him to the punch. https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/august-28-2017-banned-and-restricted-announcement-2017-08-28 Thorn of Amethyst and Monastery Mentor are restricted in...

"Wow," I told myself, "you really did blather on a lot about Yawgmoth's Bargain." "Yes," I admitted, "it is sort of the most iconic combo deck enchantment ever. I like enchantments, I'm a combo fanatic. Also, it's a card that has had some personal significance for me: it was the centerpiece of...

First, I want to get one thing out of the way, and it's a big thing: Necropotence. When either of these cards come up in any context outside of the use of Necropotence in the mid-90's before Bargain existed, the comparison between the cards almost inevitably follows. And before today, I had this...

I thought that I was probably going for an obscure card when I started a thread about Pursuit of Knowledge, but apparently Melkor used it. So now I'm dipping deeper into the well of obscurity! Kind of. I mean, that's not really what this is about... I noticed that I tend to focus on...

This one might be a bit obscure. I don't remember seeing a lot of other people using Pursuit of Knowledge. Even Scalpelexis had its fans, and while Bubbling Muck might not be highly renowned as Magic cards go, it was played extensively in tournaments once upon a time. But Pursuit of Knowledge...

About 20 years ago, I forcibly introduced all three of my siblings to Magic, as they were too young to stop me. Of course, this didn't really lead anywhere other than helping me learn some of what worked and didn't as far as basic gameplay skills. Later, both of my brothers would briefly return...

Spidey and I both expressed interest in trying this one out. We need two more people. Anyone else up for it?

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/announcement-week-coming-2017-06-08 For all of your announcement needs.

https://crypticstudios.com/magic No idea just what form this'll take. But they could make a modernized version of the old Shandalar game and I'd play the crap out of it. Hoping it's something along those lines. If it's not heavily employing some version of the card game itself, this seems like...

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/archenemy-nicol-bolas-preview-2017-06-05 Looks pretty cool.

So far, with these Memories threads, I've started... 2 for artifacts 1 for a land 2 for blue cards 3 for black cards 2 for green cards 1 for a red card 1 for a gold card Well, something pretty obvious is missing there. It wasn't my intention to leave white out, but I suppose I'm not...

Because I don't normally look for MTGO announcements, I didn't even catch this one yesterday. But now it's blowing up on a lot of websites. People have some, uh, strong opinions on this stuff... http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-online/1v1-commander-banned-list

I've been thinking that it might be a good idea to put some decks together for introducing people to Magic... If you haven't already seen them, every year WotC produces decks called variously "welcome decks," "sample decks," "demo packs," and probably some other things. These are simple...

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/hascon-and-kickoff-our-25th-anniversary-2017-04-20 Weird that they'd actually have a second Masters set this year. MM3 was great, but I'm already suspicious of this one... I am no fan of this relatively recent design philosophy that each of...

I recently saw a video that posed this question. I'll find the video again at some point. I gave it some thought and found restricting it to just five cards to be a bit challenging. There are so many that would be honorable mentions, or ones that I'd really want to include. If it was "top 100"...