Recurring Insight: Demonic Tutor
What if you could find any card in your library and put it straight into your hand? Patrick Sullivan analyzes the immensely powerful Alpha card Demonic Tutor.
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Curious about Magic: The Gathering's best and worst card designs and why? Patrick Sullivan shares his thoughts as only he can on some of MTG's most iconic cards.
Recurring Insight: Fetchlands
Patrick Sullivan analyzes the history and MTG Design behind Magic’s most iconic cycles — the fetchlands!
Recurring Insight: Thief Of Sanity
What makes a card design succeed where other versions have failed? Patrick Sullivan analyzes the history and design of Thief of Sanity, one of Magic’s most distinctive flying creatures.
Recurring Insight: Smokestack
Patrick Sullivan analyzes the history and design behind one of Magic’s most notorious lock pieces: Smokestack.
Recurring Insight: Mutagenic Growth
Phyrexian mana led to some of the most broken Magic cards in this century. Patrick Sullivan looks back at the game’s cheapest pump spell, Mutagenic Growth.
Recurring Insight: Maze Of Ith
One of Magic’s iconic lands is also among its biggest rule-breakers. Patrick Sullivan explores Commander favorite Maze of Ith, an early lesson in how not to design a land.
Recurring Insight: Life From The Loam
How does a card printed to enable a mechanic spawn whole new archetypes on its own? Patrick Sullivan looks back at Life from the Loam.
Recurring Insight: Loxodon Smiter
What makes the perfect Standard card? Patrick Sullivan looks back on a creature that met its moment flawlessly: Loxodon Smiter.
Recurring Insight: Sensei’s Divining Top
Join Patrick Sullivan as he analyzes the history and MTG design of the iconic Sensei’s Divining Top!
Recurring Insight: Bridge From Below
Is Bridge from Below even a real Magic card? Patrick Sullivan looks back at one of the game’s most controversial designs.
Recurring Insight: Mana Tithe
Color-shifting, or reprinting effects in new colors, reached its zenith in Planar Chaos. Patrick Sullivan looks back at the Force Spike color-shifted to white, Mana Tithe.
Recurring Insight: Brainstorm
Brainstorm was supposed to be a “fixed” Ancestral Recall. Patrick Sullivan details how the Ice Age common became one of Magic’s defining cards.
Recurring Insight: Goblin Guide
After the original Zendikar, aggressive one-drops were never the same. Patrick Sullivan examines Modern Burn staple Goblin Guide.
Recurring Insight: Abrupt Decay
Patrick Sullivan analyzes the history and MTG design behind the powerful yet balanced nonland permanent removal spell – Abrupt Decay!
Recurring Insight: Black Vise
What happens when the solution becomes the problem? Patrick Sullivan analyzes the card that introduced the concept of splash damage to Magic, Black Vise.