Kaito Shizuki – A Magic the Gathering Card Review
From the Magic the Gathering trading card set that brought you an infinite mana combo Dragon, we have a Ninja Planeswalker in Kaito Shizuki! Admittedly, Atsushi the Blazing Sky is a pretty powerful card with the right support in Commander, and Kaito Shizuki is a card in a similar vein. Not only is this easily […]
Spacegodzilla, Death Corona – MTG Cards Worth Grading?
When it comes to Magic the Gathering cards, most collectors almost unilaterally agree that Magic cards are meant to be played with, not encased in hard plastic shells. Believe it or not, however, there are in fact Magic cards that have far more value when graded by PSA or BGS. These cards are often not […]
Atsushi the Blazing Sky – A Magic the Gathering Card Review
With all of the absolute nonsense about Alchemy and digital-only mayhem being the talk of the Magic the Gathering world around Christmas Time 2021, it was refreshing to get some super early spoilers for the Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty set. Right away, we were shown the beautiful full-art basic lands, along with a pretty good looking […]
Watcher Sliver – A Magic the Gathering Card Review
This card review’s subject was decided by Scryfall’s Random Card feature, and the RNG (Random Number Generation) offered us a fairly useful Tribal creature in Watcher Sliver. One of the White slivers from the Time Spiral set, it was reprinted in Time Spiral Remastered, printed as a common in both cases. As common Slivers go, […]
Rakdos Pit Dragon – A Magic the Gathering Card Review
Printed in May 2006’s Magic the Gathering release, Dissension, the Rakdos Pit Dragon doesn’t hold a flame to the Dragons printed today. But, at the time, this “build a better dragon” creature was not only playable, but even competitive. From 2007 to 2014 saw Top 8 competitive play in Legacy Dragon Stompy decks. We’ll get […]
Showdown of the Skalds – A Magic the Gathering Card Review
One of the first cards spoiled for the Kaldheim set in Magic the Gathering was the powerful Saga Enchantment, Showdown of the Skalds. Sagas have proven their power in Standard competitive play time and again, beginning with the advent of Saga Enchantments in the Dominaria set. Several Sagas from the Theros: Beyond Death set have […]
Swiftblade Vindicator – A Magic the Gathering Card Review
Swiftblade Vindicator is a two-mana Human Soldier from Magic the Gathering’s Guilds of Ravnica set. It was later seen again in the Double Masters reprint set. The Vindicator is a mere 1/1 creature, but also has Double Strike, Vigilance, and Trample. Double Strike and Vigilance makes this a pretty useful card on both offense and […]
What is the Best Purugly Card in the Pokemon Trading Card Game?
First introduced in the fourth generation of Pokemon games – Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum – Purugly is a Pokemon that isn’t especially popular, despite actually having decent base statistics. Unfortunately, it has a rather shallow move pool, although it has been used in lower tiers of competitive play thanks to having access to some useful […]
High Priest of Penance – A Magic the Gathering Card Review
Throughout the history of Magic the Gathering, there have been cards that seem to be good on paper, but in practice simply don’t pan out. Sometimes the right combination of cards hasn’t been found, or more likely, a card that makes it work well as part of a winning strategy hasn’t been printed yet. For […]
Ascendant Packleader – A Magic the Gathering Card Review
With all of the strong Wolves and Werewolves printed in Innistrad: Crimson Vow, none were really playable in the one drop spot. Fortunately, Crimson Vow offers a very good one-drop Wolf that could even work in other decks. At it’s very worst, Ascendant Packleader is a 2/1 for a single Green mana. But, if you […]