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 — Nemesis
August 22, 2017 by
Dean Gootee 
#aether barrier, #alesha who smiles at death, #avenger en-dal, #damia sage of stone, #DTT, #flowstone slide, #fog patch, #grand arbiter augustin iv, #kill switch, #mind swords, #mogis god of slaughter, #rootwater thief, #rosheen meanderer, #selvala explorer returned, #spiritual asylum, #stronghold biologist, #stronghold machinist, #sygg river guide, #talrand sky summoner, #zedruu the greathearted Read More »
Dig Through Time — Planar Chaos
July 18, 2017 by
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 […]
#azami lady of scrolls, #damia sage of stone, #detritivore, #dismal failure, #dralnu lich lord, #DTT, #dust elemental, #ephara god of the polis, #frozen aether, #grand arbiter augustin iv, #isperia the inscrutable, #jhoira of the ghitu, #kor dirge, #lazav dimir mastermind, #magus of the library, #null profusion, #planar chaos, #sasaya orochi ascendant, #serendib sorcerer, #shrouded lore, #sidisi undead vizier, #toshiro umezawa, #treacherous urge, #underplayed, #voidstone gargoyle Read More »
Combo Corner — Taxes
May 30, 2017 by
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 […]
#arcanis the omnipotent, #azorius, #blue, #combo, #grand arbiter augustin iv, #improvise, #inspiring statuary, #laboratory maniac, #mind over matter, #tax, #white Read More »