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Reality Fracture Previews Just Tripled a Dollar Planeswalker. Check Which Kasmina You Own.
Kasmina, Enigma Sage went from bulk to five bucks in four days on an Empower Jace combo. Which printing you own decides how much that's actually worth.
A 68-Cent Lorwyn Common Has an $81 Foil. Check Your 2008 MTG Binder.
The 2007-2009 sets left behind a short list of cards Commander still plays. Whether your copy is worth anything comes down to the foil, not the card.
Reality Fracture's Panoramas Turn 55 Cards Into Pictures. Nothing Tracks Them.
Three panorama cycles, 55 cards, and no field anywhere that says which panel you're holding. How to track a picture you have to assemble.
The MTG Prerelease Rules Changed Twice. Your 2HG Team Is Down 57 Cards.
At-Home Prerelease is dead and Two-Headed Giant teams now get one kit instead of two. Here's the actual card math before September 25.
Which of Your MTG Cards Are Most Likely to Get Reprinted Next
The signals that predict an MTG reprint are all public and take a minute to check. Then there's the awkward part, which is how little the answer matters.
I Built a 360-Card MTG Cube From My Own Collection. The Design Was the Easy Part.
Most cube staples are cards you already own. The hard part is finding all 360 of them and remembering they're gone.
You Already Own Most Budget Commander Lands. Finding Them Is the Hard Part.
Every budget land list tells you what to buy. Most of it is already in your precon leftovers, and there's no sorting method that surfaces it.
How Many Copies of a Card Should You Actually Own?
I counted seven Sol Rings and five decks. The four-copy playset reflex is a Standard habit, and it's wrong in both directions.
The Zeta Set Sale Broke. Packs Nobody Has Opened Are Already $100.
Wizards called its own Zeta Set sale a disaster. Now $19.92 packs are flipping for five times that, sight unseen, two months before they ship.
The Masters of the Universe Secret Lair: Reprint Math on All Five Drops
Five drops at $29.99 each land September 14. I priced every card against what it already costs, and only one drop is clearly ahead.