The sets build on each other, the competitive meta is evolving around them, and the collector demand has been, to put it mildly, intense
It helps to place newly played cards slightly lower in the play zone than existing cards to show they cannot take these actions
There aren't that many ways to make sure every creature you have has a +1/+1 counter on it
Theyre mostly blue and have a wide range of abilities and play styles
Instead, it has you choose a creature type when it enters the battlefield and makes all of your slivers and nontoken creatures that creature type
These are my 25 favorite Magic cards of 2025, a deeply subjective tour through the cards that stuck with me the most, whether because they weaponized the nostalgia I have for Final Fantasy games or because I was struck by their awe-inspiring power and compelling mechanics