The Star Trek First Look revealed Kirk and Janeway mythics, actor autograph cards, Borg artifact creatures, and Picard and Spock precons. A lifelong Trek dad reacts to the 60th-anniversary set.
Everything a total beginner needs to play Commander with the five Starter Commander Decks: format basics from zero, a full walkthrough of all five decks, who should pilot what, and which deck wins the family pod.
July 10 qualifiers, the Arena summer sale on the 14th, MagicCon Amsterdam and Hobbit spoilers on the 17th–19th, and the charity Secret Lair on the 20th — a dad’s survival calendar for Magic’s wildest two weeks.
Shock lands, fetch lands, duals, triomes — a plain-English guide to Magic’s fancy lands for new and returning players, plus a budget-honest priority list for what you actually need.
Secret Lair x Global Fund for Women: Their Magic Is Limitless runs July 20–Aug 3, printed to demand, with 50% of the price donated. The one drop where my FOMO rules don’t apply.
MagicCon Amsterdam runs July 17–19 with a huge Preview Panel: Reality Fracture details plus all three 2027 in-universe sets revealed. A dad’s guide to what matters and how to follow it.
The next in-universe set is called Reality Fracture, with rumors of Jace trying to reset the Multiverse. Our lore series just became required reading — the story is live again.
The Hobbit MTG set kicks off spoilers at MagicCon Amsterdam on July 18, with LOTR reprint box toppers in tow. A Tolkien dad is emotionally compromised and budgeting badly.
The hub for our six-part MTG lore series: the full story of Magic’s central saga, from Yawgmoth and the Thran to New Phyrexia and the Age of Omenpaths, told dad-at-game-night style.
Part 1 of our MTG lore series: before the crossovers and the planeswalkers, there was a brilliant doctor named Yawgmoth, a dying civilization, and the birth of the machine hell called Phyrexia.
