Commander Spotlight: Akroan Horse

If there’s one lesson I’ve learned after playing Magic for over 20 years, it is to never underestimate how often people get some rule wrong even after encountering it multiple times. Jokes are made routinely about the rules to Magic:...
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Commander Spotlight: Spore Cloud

There’s an old (and rather worn out) joke in the Magic community that the 5 most powerful cards in the game are the five basic lands. This little gem is supposed to highlight the fact that without land, it’s very...
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Commander Spotlight: Aurelia’s Fury

Back during the early days of Magic, a host of rules existed that would never be attempted today. Among those was the batch system. Long before The Stack, there existed a convoluted process of resolving the order of cards. This...
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Commander Spotlight: Icy Manipulator

Sonic has his spin dash. Harry Potter has is disarming spell. Walker has his roundhouse kick. Mr. Spock has his neck pinch. While they all come from various genres and mediums, all of these characters have one thing in common:...
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Commander Spotlight: Lavalanche

It’s well established that when the game of Magic was first envisioned Richard Garfield’s plan was for a card game between two players, and for many years, the overwhelming majority of cards were created, tweaked, and adjusted to match that...
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