https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/ Writeups of MaxMakesMagic's Magic: The Gathering videos and projects. en-us https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/2026-03-22-what-if-secret-lair-brandon-sanderson/ https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/2026-03-22-what-if-secret-lair-brandon-sanderson/ Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A quick What If sketch imagining a Brandon Sanderson Secret Lair, and which of his worlds would make the best Magic cards. https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/2025-03-04-the-weirdest-magic-card-interaction-you-have-never-seen/ https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/2025-03-04-the-weirdest-magic-card-interaction-you-have-never-seen/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 I turn Spellweaver Volute into an Equipment so that casting a sorcery lets me copy and cast a creature that is already on the battlefield. https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/2024-07-31-the-biggest-embiggen-in-magic/ https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/2024-07-31-the-biggest-embiggen-in-magic/ Wed, 31 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 How big can Embiggen get? I stack every supertype, card type, and subtype onto one creature to reach +278/+278 on Magic Online and +322/+322 in paper. https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/2023-05-22-the-mtg-quiz-returns-battle-of-wits-s2e1/ https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/2023-05-22-the-mtg-quiz-returns-battle-of-wits-s2e1/ Mon, 22 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Battle of Wits is back for season two. Cayce, Commander Mechanic and ZBexx battle through five rounds of Magic trivia. https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/2023-02-08-reminder-text-is-not-rules-text/ https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/2023-02-08-reminder-text-is-not-rules-text/ Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Atraxa, Grand Unifier lists the card types for you, but she is lying by omission. Tribal is the hidden ninth type, and it lets you grab an extra card. https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/2022-10-07-i-sent-these-magic-cards-to-space-mtg/ https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/2022-10-07-i-sent-these-magic-cards-to-space-mtg/ Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 I launched a booster pack of Magic: The Gathering's space-themed Unfinity set to 35km, the edge of space, and recovered it, turning a wholesome community campaign into a real high-altitude ballooning mission. https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/2022-04-09-the-magic-rules-iceberg-2022/ https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/2022-04-09-the-magic-rules-iceberg-2022/ Sat, 09 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 My 10,000 subscriber celebration stream: a two-hour deep dive through all 13 layers of the Magic: The Gathering rules iceberg, from friendly mnemonics down to genuinely obscure rulings. https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/2021-07-26-battle-of-wits-season-finale-gavin-verhey-alk-alters-cayce-mtg/ https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/2021-07-26-battle-of-wits-season-finale-gavin-verhey-alk-alters-cayce-mtg/ Mon, 26 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 The season one finale of Battle of Wits. Three season winners return to fight it out for the first ever trophy. https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/2021-03-31-insane-mtg-combo-you-won-t-believe-shorts/ https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/2021-03-31-insane-mtg-combo-you-won-t-believe-shorts/ Wed, 31 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 A Short where I chain Words of Worship, Lich's Mirror and Shahrazad to survive losing the game, and slip a Charizard into a game of Magic along the way. https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/2021-03-28-fight-club-weird-things-you-can-do-in-magic-the-gathering-pt-8/ https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/2021-03-28-fight-club-weird-things-you-can-do-in-magic-the-gathering-pt-8/ Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Part 8 of my Weird Things series: a Fight Club combo that reanimates a graveyard full of creatures as copies of one deathtouch, lifelink fighter. https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/2021-03-10-you-put-your-deck-where-weird-things-you-can-do-in-magic-the-gathering-pt-5/ https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/2021-03-10-you-put-your-deck-where-weird-things-you-can-do-in-magic-the-gathering-pt-5/ Wed, 10 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Part 5 of my Weird Things series: a Commander combo that ends with all 100 cards in the command zone, and nothing anywhere else. https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/2021-02-22-weird-things-you-can-do-in-magic-the-gathering-pt-3-shorts/ https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/2021-02-22-weird-things-you-can-do-in-magic-the-gathering-pt-3-shorts/ Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Part 3 of my Weird Things series: tokens whose creature types match real card names, and how Eradicate can exile the real cards a token points to. https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/2021-01-28-weird-things-you-can-do-in-magic-the-gathering-pt-1-shorts/ https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/2021-01-28-weird-things-you-can-do-in-magic-the-gathering-pt-1-shorts/ Thu, 28 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Part 1 of my Weird Things series: I strip a Magic artifact of every card type until it becomes a permanent that is nothing at all, just a thing on the battlefield. https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/2020-06-26-battle-of-wits-episode-1-merchant-gavin-verhey-emmmzyne-syvantir-mtg-quiz-show/ https://maxmakesmagic.com/blog/2020-06-26-battle-of-wits-episode-1-merchant-gavin-verhey-emmmzyne-syvantir-mtg-quiz-show/ Fri, 26 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 The very first Battle of Wits, my MTG quiz show. Merchant, Emmmzyne, Syvantir and Gavin Verhey take on five rounds of Magic trivia.