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The Basic Lands That Won Pro Tour Lorwyn Eclipsed
The Magic: the Gathering Pro Tour wrapped up this weekend with an incredible victory from Christoffer Larsen. But what just as important as Larsen’s choice of deck was which basic land art he chose to ride to victory at PT Lorwyn Eclipsed.
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The Basic Lands That Won Magic World Championship 31
The 31st Magic: the Gathering World Championship concluded on Sunday with a victory for Sam Pardee, who will now be immortalized in the game in the enviable form of an invitational card of his own design. But what matters more? Which basic lands he sleeved up to win with.
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The Most Popular Plains of 2025
Using sales data from TCGPlayer, monthly captures of the “most popular” on Card Kingdom, and eBay sales data, we’ve compiled the most popular Plains of the year using the most purchases online as the proxy for popularity. These have been calculated on a relative basis, so EOE #262 has sold about half as many as…
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The Basic Lands That Won Pro Tour: Edge of Eternities
Pro Tour Edge of Eternities concluded yesterday with a clean finish for American Michael DeBenedetto-Plummer, who piloted Tamehi Belcher and some impressive limited decks to his first PT Top 8 and first win! Modern as a format seems wide open: Frank Karsten’s analysis reveals more than a dozen decks had positive records in Swiss, a…
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The Best Basic Lands of 2024
What is the State of Basic Lands in 2024? What styles and specific art did players like best in the year? Find out all of that and more!
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The Basic Lands That Won Pro Tour Outlaws of Thunder Junction
What basic lands took down the Pro Tour this weekend in Seattle? The Cardboard by the Numbers team is here to fill you in on the PT’s most critical details.
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How strong were Outlaws of Thunder Junction pre-sales?
Magic: the Gathering’s latest expansion, Outlaws of Thunder Junction, has had the community abuzz. A set with a huge step-up in power, two bonus sheets, an already-beloved limited format, and an expansion that’s had some serious hits and misses from the creative side, OTJ occupies an interesting place in the world of Magic. But how…
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My 14 Favorite Fallout Cards for Cube
Fallout is upon us! The much-hyped crossover between the beloved game franchise — one that will take up even more online discourse in a few weeks with a new Amazon show — and the greatest game ever made (Magic: the Gathering) may not have lived up to the high expectations of all Magic players, but…
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Data Suggest the Fallout Shortage May Be Real
The data we’ve crunched here at Cardboard by the Numbers indicates that Fallout is likely going to be an exception to this trend, and a massive one at that. If our assumptions are right, Fallout Collector Booster Boxes have been under-printed relative to demand and consequently will be extremely scarce.