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Cube’s Most Popular Card by Year
Cube is the greatest way to play Magic: the Gathering. To celebrate the game’s upcoming 30th anniversary and our favorite format, we analyzed cube data to understand what card first printed in each year of the game’s history most-utilized in the format that’s often viewed as a museum of Magic history.
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Calculating Magic’s Most-Hyped Cards
The hype around the most recent Magic: the Gathering expansion, The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth, has been unprecedented. But what are the most hyped spoilers across the game’s 30 year history?
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Ranking the Showcase Treatments – with Math!
March of the Machine has become an instant classic, hailed as one of the best draft formats of all time by one of Magic’s most successful limited players. While the companion/expansion set March of the Machine: Aftermath has not fared nearly as well in the public consciousness, one of the more celebrated elements of the…
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What Everyone Missed at Pro Tour: March of the Machine
Much has been said about Pro Tour: March of the Machine, but one critical element has gone all but undiscussed: which basics were the best players running?
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Trivia by the Numbers: March of the Machine Pt. 2
Previously, we discussed the first half of March of the Machine’s notable accomplishments as a Magic expansion via number-related trivia. Today, we’ll finish off the remainder of our 16 funnest stats from #MTGMOM
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Trivia by the Numbers: March of the Machine Pt. 1
March of the Machine has been hyped up by Wizards of the Coast staff as a set that will “change Magic forever”. While we wait to see the epilogue expansion to assess such a grand assertion, there are still incredible records that Magic’s 96th premier expansion can claim that are worth examining.
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INFOGRAPHIC: A Timeline of Magic’s Most Powerful Creature
What’s the most powerful creature in all of Magic: the Gathering? While the 30 years of the game has invited players to engage in myriad debates on the topic, the notion that a 2/1 monkey or a similarly-statted human with flash tops the list can seem fanciful when there is an objective measure of a…
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How Many “March of the Machine” Cards Are From Each Plane?
Which Magic planes got the most representation in the multiverse-spanning March of the Machine? Cardboard by the Numbers finds out.
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The Planar Cycles of March of the Machine
[INFOGRAPHIC] Exploring the 16 planes of Magic: the Gathering in “March of the Machine” (MOM) that receive team-ups, frame treatments, and basic lands.
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Magic Hits $1 Billion
It’s official: Magic: the Gathering has become Hasbro’s first “Billion Dollar Brand”, brining in a total of $1.065B in gross sales for the 2022 calendar year.