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.
Part 2 of our MTG lore series: brothers Urza and Mishra break an ancient powerstone, unseal Phyrexia, and wage a decades-long machine war that ends in apocalypse — and a planeswalker’s birth.
Part 3 of our MTG lore series: Urza assaults hell, loses everyone he loves, and spends centuries building a living skyship and engineering a human hero for the war to come.
Part 4 of our MTG lore series: the Phyrexian Invasion of Dominaria, the crew of the Weatherlight, the Legacy Weapon, and the death of Yawgmoth — Magic’s original epic.
