Scheme Archives

This week, we will begin to analyze the schemes of this second supplemental release and see how they fit in with the entire paradigm of the format Do they stand up to schemes from the original release? Let's talk about that! The full art for Behold My Grandeur, a scheme card for Archenemy: Nicol Bolas, a[...]

Hello and welcome, all players, collectors, and other fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier collectible trading card game designed, developed, and produced by Wizards of the Coast! This article will see a slight break from the usual scheme analyses for the Archenemy format, but expect a return to these articles next week In the meantime,[...]

Are you ready? Let's get to it! The full art for Drench the Soil in Their Blood, a promotional scheme card from the Archenemy format for Magic: The Gathering Illustrated by Val Mayerik. As always, let us first go over how we rate schemes for the Archenemy format: All Schemes will be grouped according to the overall role[...]

It was bittersweet, having spent nearly four months on coverage of the first 45 scheme cards for the 3-on-1 format Truly, it is a shame to see it go, but when one door closes, another surely opens: today, we will be covering the first three of five promotional schemes for the format, and follow this[...]

It's something new, something strange, perhaps even lesser than you are. Oh, okay, we are just pulling your leg a little bit here; this article is exploring the last three scheme cards in the original Archenemy release, all of which happen to begin with the word "Your" There's no real link between these schemes other than that, but it does[...]

The cool thing is that it fits this week's theme quite well! So, without further ado, let's analyze some Archenemy schemes! The art for Which of You Burns Brightest?, a scheme card from Archenemy, a supplemental set of oversized cards for Magic: The Gathering Illustrated by Steve Prescott. The way that we come to rate the scheme[...]

However, we're not about to let that stop us! Let's dive into the analysis explanations. The art for Surrender Your Thoughts, a scheme card from Archenemy, a supplemental set of oversized cards for Magic: The Gathering Illustrated by Howard Lyon. The justification behind our ratings for the scheme cards of the Archenemy format as a whole is[...]

However, there is a secret we will let you in on right now: Those correlations are mostly caused by the naming conventions surrounding the groups of three scheme cards we've been looking over each week Therefore, it is with no levity that we inform you that this week there's no theme to be had However,[...]

Hello and welcome, all players, collectors, and other fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier collectible trading card game designed, developed, and produced by Wizards of the Coast! In the previous two-thirds of our installment about Archenemy, we went over various themes that seemed pretty appropriate for each of the blocks of three schemes cards we[...]

All of the schemes in this leg of the analysis will start with the word "My", just for fun (and totally not just because they're all next in the numbered sequence we're going by!). The art for My Undead Horde Awakens, a scheme card from Archenemy, a supplemental set of oversized cards for Magic: The Gathering[...]

Welcome, all players, collectors, and fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier collectible trading card game designed, developed, and produced by Wizards of the Coast! Over the past few weeks, we have gone over some really interesting schemes for the Archenemy format, a 3-on-1 game that pits you, the titular Archenemy, against three "heroes" who think[...]

Hello all players, collectors, and other fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier collectible trading card game designed, developed, and produced by Wizards of the Coast! This week, for this installment of our ongoing series on Magic's most diabolical 3-versus-1 format Archenemy, we have a fairly simple suite of schemes to share our opinions on[...]

Being evil is a very social event, especially as the archenemy of a 3-on-1 game of Magic! Today, we will be looking at another three schemes from the original set of Archenemy cards, all with their own spin on the idea of making friends and consequently terrorizing people. The art for Into the Earthen Maw, a[...]

Welcome back, all players, collectors, and other fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier collectible trading card game designed and produced by Wizards of the Coast! In the past few articles in our series on Archenemy, Magic's fascinating 3-on-1 format, we went over the first 15 schemes in the course of the month of July[...]

Hello and welcome back, all players, collectors, and other fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier collectible trading card game designed, developed, and produced by Wizards of the Coast! We come to you today posing a new question: How best can non-Archenemy players love themselves in a game of Archenemy? After all, it's clear that the[...]

It'll make sense soon enough. In any event, today we will be looking at yet another three scheme cards from the first release of this supplemental series You may begin to notice a theme but it'll stop soon enough, probably in time for you to enjoy the analysis of these oversized cards as well Are you[...]

Welcome, all players, collectors, and other fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier collectible trading card game, designed and produced by Wizards of the Coast! Before we get into the third installment of our series about the various oversized Archenemy supplemental cards that grace this game, we'd like to introduce you to a helluva cool word: psychopomp. Psychopomp[...]

Illustrated by Jesper Ejsing. As we wrote on in our last article on the matter, we will be grading these cards in the following fashion: All Schemes will be grouped according to the overall role they play: These groupings are categorized as such: Disruption: The Schemes take something from your opponents (and only them) that doesn't exist on[...]

Are you ready to get a little evil? Let's roll! The art for All In Good Time, a supplemental scheme card from the original Archenemy release for Magic: The Gathering Illustrated by Nic Klein. What is Archenemy? Archenemy as a format is a style of gameplay where one player faces off against (generally) three other players[...]