Modern: The Bans and the Fury-less Andre Segarra December 22, 2023 Modern, The Spirit Squad What’s good, Spirit Squad! Today, as promised, we’re gonna talk a bit about the recent update to the Banned and Restricted list. This time the affected cards are Fury and Up the Beanstalk, cards that any Mod... Read More...
Preordain and the Power of Consistency Andre Segarra August 9, 2023 Modern, Pioneer, The Spirit Squad What's good, Spirit Squad! This week we've had one of the most mixed set of reactions to a Banned and Restricted announcements I've seen in a pretty long time. For anyone who isn't aware, there were two chan... Read More...
BAMulet Titan: Turning to the Dark Side to Attack the Metagame! GR_DONKIN July 21, 2023 Decklists, Donkin's Digest, Modern Hi all, Welcome back to another article about Amulet Titan! This time we're going to be spicing it up and talking about an interesting innovation that I've been working on for the past few weeks. The bad n... Read More...
Brewing with LOTR after a short “Reprieve” GR_DONKIN June 22, 2023 Decklists, Donkin's Digest, Modern Hi all, I'm back writing at The Mana Base after a short Reprieve. Sometimes, life takes precedence. Speaking of a reprieve, that is exactly the card I wanted to talk about today. Reprieve is a card from the n... Read More...
Sometimes You Just Gotta Play Good Cards. Andre Segarra April 14, 2023 Modern, The Spirit Squad What’s good, Spirit Squad! Today we’re gonna talk about one of the strategies that’s been effective in Magic deck building since tournament play’s inception: simply playing all the best cards. Ever since ... Read More...
Can We Fix Power Creep?! Lord of Modern March 26, 2023 Lord of Modern, Modern We're very happy to welcome Lord of Modern to The Mana Base! With her fresh insight and well-researched videos, we expect great things in the discourse around Modern MTG. Today, Lord of Modern addresses the ... Read More...
Channel Nikachu: Budget Replacements to Popular Cards Nikachu December 21, 2022 Channel Nikachu, Modern Can't afford Wheel of Fortune? Check out Wheel of Misfortune! https://youtu.be/nohlBky5jQA Get your MTG singles from FUSION GAMING ONLINE. Use Coupon Code NIKACHU to save 5% off all you... Read More...
Channel Nikachu: Fan-favourite Flavour Texts! Nikachu December 16, 2022 Channel Nikachu, Modern Magic has built worlds in flavour text. They've also had some ZINGERS! Today we go over our favourite funny flavour texts! https://youtu.be/iGLDYL9xI48 Get your MTG singles from FUSIO... Read More...
Channel Nikachu: Rating AI-Generated MTG Cards pt. 4! Nikachu December 14, 2022 Channel Nikachu, Modern The AI thinks that we should be allowed to discard a card to draw a card for a 5-mana permanent... You never know what it's gonna come up with! https://youtu.be/TE7J_QR4afk Get your MT... Read More...
Channel Nikachu: Should The Fetchlands Get Banned?! Nikachu November 3, 2022 Channel Nikachu, Modern Some debate has spurred up over fetchlands in Modern. Are they too powerful and need a ban or are they part of the identity of the format? https://youtu.be/_I3mZJ4-7-g Get your MTG singles... Read More...