The Mystery Booster Playtest cards have already influenced constructed-legal Magic sets. What other of these cards/mechanics could we see in the future?
Design
Joe AKA “Beardy” talks about the wild benefits of playing with other people’s cards instead of your own. How many accomplices does a good Xanathar deck need?
Francesco looks at Magic cards whose flavor references the imaginative process itself. Beyond fantasy creatures in fantasy worlds lies pure imagination.
What are cycles? What do they teach us about Magic design? Paul looks at various kinds of cycles, how they shape the sets they’re in, and their impact on Magic.
Francesco analyzes the flavor texts of several of the fantastic creatures from Magic whose descriptions all come from real-world literature.
Having explored Coleridge and Poe in previous installments, the time is ripe to explore the theme of horror in Magic and how it manifests in flavor text.
Francesco is back looking at English-speaking authors in flavor text. In this installment, he analyzes quotations from the gothic horror author Edgar Allan Poe.
Francesco examines the quotations of English-language author Samuel Coleridge, one of the most quoted authors from Alpha. On what other cards did he appear?
Francesco concludes his series on Chinese literary sources in Magic flavor with a deep dive into Luo Guanzhong’s Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
In this second installment on Chinese literary sources for Magic flavor, Francesco broadens his perspective of the cards in question and reexamines others.
Paul reflects on his favorite things from the original Kamigawa block. What made original Kamigawa great, and how could those things show up in Neon Dynasty?
In this first installment of a multi-part article, Francesco examines quotations from Chinese literature, mostly represented by the set Portal Three Kingdoms.
Having explored Greek and Latin quotations, Francesco turns his attention to examining the six quotes from Arabian Nights in Magic flavor text.
