grand arbiter augustin iv

Dig Through Time — Nemesis

Dig Through Time — Nemesis

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Dean Gootee
Dean Gootee
We already covered Mercadian Masques back in February. Today we're going to dig back in time to cover the second set in the Mercadian Masques block—Nemesis. Nemesis came out in 2000, and brought back Spellshapers, alternative casting costs, Mercenaries and Rebels from the previous set. Mercenaries and Rebels are still too parasitic to be very interesting, but the […]
Dig Through Time — Planar Chaos

Dig Through Time — Planar Chaos

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Dean Gootee
Dean Gootee
This week on Dig Through Time we're going to visit the alternate present of 2007 with Planar Chaos. Like the rest of Time Spiral block, this set explored the "crust" of the color pie, mining for effects that bordered on allowable in each color at the time. They weren't just pushing boundaries, though. Some of the experimentation was […]
Combo Corner — Taxes

Combo Corner — Taxes

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Patrick Sippola
Patrick Sippola
Patrick Sippola here, reporting from front lines of the jank wars, bringing you what can only be described as combos. The best thing about finding new interactions between cards is that sometimes an idea strikes you to just make a small change to a type of deck that is already out there. This month is […]