Cardboard by the Numbers

Blake confirmed that they're experimenting a lot more with set sizes in 2026.

Ninja Turtles is about the same size as SPM (on purpose this time) but the 7 sets will only have 160 more cards than 2025.

With this, I suspect The Hobbit and/or Star trek will be smaller too, which is less than ideal.

Top 20 Most Popular Plains in Magic: The Gathering 2025 Discover the top popular Plains in Magic: The Gathering for 2025, ranked by online sales data from TCGPlayer and Card Kingdom.

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The Most Popular Plains of 2025

I think that should've been a separate chart, you're comparing apples to a single grape seed

seems deeply disingenuous to put Secret Lairs with no mechanically unique cards on there, and similarly so for the ones that are printing 5 new cards exclusively for eternal formats

pt eoe basic lands

they don't seem to post them here but i always appreciate @cardboard.bsky.social's basic land breakdowns.

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A Brief History of Red's Two-Power One-Drops

The Best Basic Lands of 2024 What is the State of Basic Lands in 2024? What styles and specific art did players like best in the year? Find out all of that and more!

What were the best basic lands of 2024? We did the math!
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What were your favorite basic lands of 2024? Share your thoughts in our community basic land survey here!!

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From an article I never ended up publishing about the Legends of OTJ.

Since I made this, one more character from an unknown plane was revealed (Akul the Unrepentant is apparently from Gastal!) but I still thought this was interesting enough to share!

The Basic Lands That Won Pro Tour Outlaws of Thunder Junction What basic lands took down the Pro Tour this weekend in Seattle? The Cardboard by the Numbers team is here to fill you in on the PT’s most critical details.

The Basic Lands That Won Pro Tour Outlaws of Thunder Junction

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MagicFest Chicago gave us an insight into three additional upcoming basic land styles - which one is your favorite?

What Hasbro’s 2023 Annual Report Means for Magic: the Gathering In brief, fantasy gaming vertical Wizards of the Coast was the saving grace of Hasbro in 2023, representing the only business unit with a positive fiscal year.

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The Most Expensive Magic Cards Printed Since 2020 The One Ring (1 of 1 Edition) — $2.6M Sol Ring (Elven Serialized) — $4k Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer (Secret Lair Showdown Top 32 Prize) — $2.5k Sauron, the Dark Lord (Top finishers for Regional Champs) — $1.8k Sol Ring (Dwarven Serialized) — $1.6k

Which piece of expensive cardboard would you want the most? 🤔

Secret Lair Update!

After 48 hours, not a single SKU of the Winter Superdrop has sold out. Considered a weak drop by fans, both financially and aesthetically, availability is not an issue as feared.

Perhaps the best way to avoid scalping is to make a less appealing product.

The Basic Lands That Won the European Championship Marco Del Pivo took home the trophy for the EMEA Regional Championship in Ghent, but based on Basic Land choice, who was the real winner?

The Basic Lands That Won the European Championship #LECGhent

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we got a new goblin token revealed today for #MTGKarlov, so we've updated our tier list of freaky little guys accordingly

Rating Murders at Karlov Manor’s 25 Most Interesting Cards for Cube With the release of most new Magic: the Gathering expansions, the Cube community has plenty of great content to look forward to. Starting with MKM, we’re getting in the game.

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We did the math: what are the 25 most interesting cards from #MTGKarlov for Cube?

Made for Commander? Secretly for Cube With novel designs and power-level intended for eternal formats, commander sets have brought about many Cube staples

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Today, we explore the best cards Commander sets have brought us for Cube #MagicTCG #MtG #MtGCube

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Some sneak peeks of the standard basic lands in #MTGKarlov from the Debut Stream 👀

Who Needs Mythics? 3 of Ixalan's 5 Most Expensive Cards are Rare Cavern of Souls Roaming Throne Tishana's Tidebinder

#MtGIxalan is the first premiere set with its top-end cards this heavily concentrated in the rare slot 📈

Here's a cut infographic from the article: the biggest financial gains in #MagicTheGathering basic lands by dollar amount -- outpacing even GURU, APAC, and EURO lands (all down in price in 2023):

Determining 2023’s Best Basic Lands – With Math To start, we’re going to dig into the state of basic lands coming into 2024. Using that as a foundation, we’ll bring in various rankings and metrics for 2023’s 133 new pieces of art to start to ...

Determining 2023’s Best Basic Lands – With Math (Kind of)

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The Most Underrated Cube Cards of 2023 – By the Numbers Today, we’ll go through some of 2023’s least-Cubed cards (sub-500 lists on Cube Cobra, as of January 1st) that I think are worth your while.

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Survey Results: The State of Limited Magic in 2023 We polled limited Magic: the Gathering players what they thought of the draft formats of 2023 – here’s what they said!

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Survey Results: The State of Limited Magic in 2023
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With extremely limited availability, the recently-announced “Year of the Dragon“ Mountain for the APAC region is anticipated to cost over $100.

Outside of the GURU cycle, this may end up as Magic's most-expensive basic land!

What were the year's most-played #MtGCube cards for Boros? We did the math!

The State of Boros in Cube I wanted to start with Boros because of the significant change the guild has seen this year. More than half of my own red & white cards have been swapped out this year for fresh cardboard, and…

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The State of Boros in #MtGCube
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Which of this year's reprints have your favorite new art? 🤔

"March of the Machine: The Aftermath has the lowest...score for a randomized booster product we've ever had. Ever! In the history of us tracking this metric, which is something like 25 years. And not even by a little. By a lot.“ - Mark Rosewater

Maro candidly shares user research about Magic's first "epilogue" expansion.