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  • February 5, 2024

    Serialized is Special Again? The Math Behind MKM’s Impossible Pull Rates

    Serialized is Special Again? The Math Behind MKM’s Impossible Pull Rates

    Serialized cards have changed the game in terms of finance, collectability, and “bling”: and as evidenced with the newest expansion, Murders at Karlov Manor, that trend is only going to continue.

  • January 29, 2024

    The Basic Lands That Won the European Championship

    The Basic Lands That Won the European Championship

    Marco Del Pivo took home the trophy for the EMEA Regional Championship in Ghent, but based on Basic Land choice, who was the real winner?

  • January 24, 2024

    Rating Murders at Karlov Manor’s 25 Most Interesting Cards for Cube

    Rating Murders at Karlov Manor’s 25 Most Interesting Cards for Cube

    With the release of most new Magic: the Gathering expansions, the Cube community has plenty of great content to look forward to. Starting with MKM, we’re getting in the game.

  • January 18, 2024

    Made for Commander? Secretly for Cube

    Made for Commander? Secretly for Cube

    With novel designs and power-level intended for eternal formats, commander sets have brought about many Cube staples

  • January 11, 2024

    Determining 2023’s Best Basic Lands – With Math (Kind of)

    Determining 2023’s Best Basic Lands – With Math (Kind of)

    To start, we’re going to dig into the state of basic lands coming into 2024. Using that as a foundation, we’ll bring in various rankings and metrics for 2023’s 133 new pieces of art to start to piece together a formula. From that, you will know, definitively, proven by a bevy of quantitate measures, which…

  • January 3, 2024

    The Most Underrated Cube Cards of 2023 – By the Numbers

    The Most Underrated Cube Cards of 2023 – By the Numbers

    Today, we’ll go through some of 2023’s least-Cubed cards (sub-500 lists on Cube Cobra, as of January 1st) that I think are worth your while.

  • December 18, 2023

    Survey Results: The State of Limited Magic in 2023

    Survey Results: The State of Limited Magic in 2023

    We polled limited Magic: the Gathering players what they thought of the draft formats of 2023 – here’s what they said!

  • December 12, 2023

    The State of Boros in Cube

    The State of Boros in Cube

    I wanted to start with Boros because of the significant change the guild has seen this year. More than half of my own red & white cards have been swapped out this year for fresh cardboard, and similarly, 40% of the MODO Cube’s Boros section is updated with cards sporting a 2023 copyright. But why…

  • December 8, 2023

    The Biggest Winners from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander Decks

    The Biggest Winners from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander Decks

    Today, we’ll walk through the biggest impacts that the recent Commander precons for The Lost Caverns of Ixalan have had on individual cards, and hopefully we can use this to better understand what kinds of cards you should pick up early if you’re looking to upgrade a precon paired with future expansions.

  • November 28, 2023

    2023’s Most Popular Cube Cards by the Numbers

    2023’s Most Popular Cube Cards by the Numbers

    We don’t have any qualitative awards for new Magic cards. Even with the category becoming much less competitive, Quintorius Kand has no chance of winning the award for “Best New Planeswalker” since no such trophy exists. But we do have numbers at our disposal to help recap the year and quantitatively understand just how impactful…

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