Joey Hoffer
April 9, 2020
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Daily Dose of Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths #6 – It’s time to Wedge in Ikoria
Welcome all to the Daily Dose of Ikoria! Today I’m going to be talking about an underlying theme in the new set which is wedge coloured cards. If you aren’t familiar with these colour combinations, here is the breakdown: - Sultai – Black, Green, Blue - Jeskai – White, Blue, Red - Temur – Red, Green, Blue - Abzan – White, Green, Black - Mardu – Red, White, Black All the multicolour...
Joey Hoffer
April 8, 2020
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Daily Dose of Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths #5 – Happiness begins with Removal and Vigilance
Welcome all to the Daily Dose of Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths. The more I learn about Ikoria, the more I realize vast new mini deck-archetypes. There are some obvious ones like Mutate and Cycling, but today I want to look at one of the smaller subsets involving one of the prominent keywords in the set. Trample, Deathtouch and Vigilance each have their own subset of cards that work together in...
Joey Hoffer
April 7, 2020
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Daily Dose of Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths #4 – Best creatures to Mutate onto for Simic Mutate
Welcome to the Daily Dose of Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths. Today I’m not only going to show you three new Mutate cards for your upcoming Simic Mutate deck, but also talk about some of the best creatures you will need to be playing to Mutate onto. There are a ton of Mutate creatures in Ikoria, but the ones that intrigue me the most are the creatures that have a Mutate cost that is less or equal to...
Joey Hoffer
April 6, 2020
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Daily Dose of Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths #3 – Cycling: The Tour de Ikoria
Welcome all to another edition of the Daily Dose of Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths. It’s the start of a brand-new week and I’m happy to say that the monsters haven’t taken over yet, but they are causing a lot of noise. With all the new monsters running around Ikoria, it is good to know that there is one of my favourite mechanics returning. Let’s all welcome back, Cycling! I can’t stress...
Joey Hoffer
April 3, 2020
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Daily Dose of Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths #2 – Planeswalkers to save us all
Welcome back to the Daily Dose of Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths. It is time to talk about more of the monstrous new set of Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths. This huge new set will have giant monsters that will be terrorizing Ikoria. There also must be some saviours, and that's where a couple of trusty new Planeswalkers come in. From what we have seen so far, Ikoria is going to be a very creature heavy set...
Joey Hoffer
April 2, 2020
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Daily Dose of Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths #1 – Mutating Monsters
Welcome back to an all-new season of the Daily Dose of Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths. Pandemonium has hit Ikoria and monsters are running rampant around the wonderful new setting of Ikoria. These monsters though have a little something new to them, which is the brand new Mutate mechanic. That’s right, these creatures can be on their own or mutated onto another creature, somewhat like the Bestow...
Joey Hoffer
January 16, 2020
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Daily Dose of Theros Beyond Death #21 – Limited Deck Archetypes, Finding the Balance
Welcome all to the Daily Dose of Theros Beyond Death. Today I’ll be talking about a few of the Limited deck archetypes. Prerelease will be starting this weekend, and everyone will be playing the cards for the first time. Getting a pool of 85 random cards from a set you’ve never played can be daunting. What the set designers do is try and add some synergy to the set for certain deck...
Joey Hoffer
January 15, 2020
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Daily Dose of Theros Beyond Death #20 – Guide to Combat Tricks and Removal Cards by Colour
Welcome all to the Daily Dose of Theros Beyond Death. Today I get to write one of my favourite articles of every preview season. It’s time for the guide to combat tricks and removal cards by colour for Theros Beyond Death. One of the best things you can do to prepare for prerelease is to know which cards are in the set and what they do. More specifically, you don’t want to be surprised by...
