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CKC delves in the laborious diplomatic dance called Commander.

Look into the world of Magic: The Gathering card collecting, discussing the challenges and emotions involved in managing a large collection and the impact on gameplay and friendships.

Top early picks from the The Lost Caverns of Ixalan set releasing on November 17th 2023. The set is focused around Dinosaur and Lands with some impactful additions and reprints.

In celebration of its remarkable 10-year journey, EchoMTG has unveiled a new website that promises to redefine the user

Standard rotation for 2022 is coming up very soon with the release of Dominaria United. MTG Arena brings thousands of ne

In this article I will explain the strategy behind my very odd but calculated mono deck. It is much like a dance and you

The 2020 Covid-19 pandemic triggered a pencils down command to most of the artists in the comic book world, Fico Ossio

Where do we begin when assessing a set like this? No pun intended, but Ikoria really is a ‘monster’ and has

Hello, nice to meet you all. I own and operate Outlaw Custom Creations. It's a small company based out of Boise, Idaho s

If importing from deckbox this is what you need to do. Step one: Deckbox puts a bunch of extra columns in. Deckbox

I have a deckbox.org .csv file of my entire collection. I edited the .csv formatting to match Echomtg's formatting. Afte

I am new to this site and built a watchlist that has about 50 cards but can only see 3. I can see the whole list on my

Welcome, Today we're going to the dark end of Legacy to look at one of the many diferent flavors of Stompy. Stompy d

UPDATE August 2018: This issue was resolved.Holy crap, I can't believe I'm writing this article. I started EchoMTG as a

Welcome Reader, Today we're stepping into Pauper to look at an archtype that's normally disliked a lot, and that's th

Welcome Reader, We're going to go to the world of Pauper for a rather strange take on aggro. As you can see, unlike m

Welcome reader, Today we're delving into Pauper, specifically a combo deck that is similar to a Legacy deck, named Oo

Welcome readers, Today we're going to delve into some Legacy. This deck'll be for people who love to draw cards, and

With my bank paying a tremendous one tenth of a percent interest, I've been wondering if buying an unopened booster box

Well, here we go, I've gone and got a list for Pauper that should never have seen the light of day, or atleast imaginati

Welcome readers, This is not going to be a normal article. Rather than a deck article, this is solely about one ca

Hello readers, I want to do another deck tech and all, but I'll be blunt, I'm both hesitent and lazy right now until

I wanted to share a very thought provocative statement from a redditor. Bonus: Are we in a Magic bubble? While it

This article is dedicated to one of the most unique cards in all of Magic the Gathering: Kobolds of Kher Keep. To

Hello EchoMTG Friends, With the Modern Masters 2017 #MM3 set now fully revealed, it's become very apparent the set wi

Davey Cadaver is a self-taught artist residing in the Pacific Northwest. He has many interests and talents but specializ

Welcome back readers! Today we have an aggro deck based around an old idea of "One shot, One kill". The entire gamepl

Hello Readers, Our last meeting we started our Revolt with the machines, now we bring our our Hidden Stockpiles. This

Welcome back readers! So here we are, getting close to our lovely release of Aether Revolt, and what does that mean?

Have you ever fallen out of love with Magic? If you’re newer to the game, maybe that’s hard to believe. But

Does anyone have any guess or idea if the masterpiece from kaladesh is worth holding onto or should it be flipped ?

Hello again readers,Today we have a more interesting Control build for modern. Normally used as a combo piece, instead w

Welcome Readers,While Kaladesh is still newborn, I've decided to put together a few decks, they may serve no merit but

I am loving Conspiracy: Take the Crown! I am tired of the dark zombies and vampires; encroaching evil upon all that is g

Welcome,Today we're looking at a Standard list, and boy is it comical. As a side note, I tend to keep Standard UNDER $10

Welcome boys and girls,Today we're going to discuss our first Legac.... Wait, this is Modern Legal? No...Ok then...This

Welcome Readers,Today's going to be nice and calm, we're simply going to play a land every turn, and let bygones be bygo

Welcome pyro's,Today I aim to make you people happy with a different style of aggro deck for standard. Not only are we b

Today we're going to make Modern a simple format with some Hardened Scales Stompy. The deck, according to EchoMTG costs

Welcome,Today we were blessed by the presence of our new Spag...Radish/Mushroom hybrid... Eldritc...Eldrazi overlord! N

Hi All Love the page and everything  so far! I've been a "rare" member since a year or so and quite happy with

Hello class, take your seats. Today we'll be talking about a new app for Android that you NEED to start using...Scryglas

An IntroductionI’ve been in some form of higher education for way too many years, but I can say with sure-fire honesty

MTG Goldfish released a couple hot vintage decks that feature new cards that are still cheap pickups and could be great

The world of MTG finance is a complicated one, where buyers and sellers battle to get the best value out of their money

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Hello  i am new to the whole magic  scene , my mate gave me a folder with a collection of cards   I'm not

There are a couple alarms for me with eternal staples. 1. Fakes becoming unrecognizable to the real thing. I have some o

I was doing research to compare the price of an alpha card against the growth of the magic community. In order to do thi

Everyone has a “gateway” story—how they got into playing Magic. Harder to explain is how you collect, if it can be

Echo started as a project to help me make fast calculations when trading on magictraders.com. In 2013 I turned it i

How big the the magic market, this article jump into it using anonymized user data and assumptions to derive market size.