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15 Years in 15 Moments: The Ultimate Guard Story
Ultimate Guard is celebrating its 15th anniversary! To mark our birthday, we're looking back at 15 exciting, wild, wonderful years – captured in 15 defining moments.
9 min read 14.09.2026
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Riftbound's BestOf Promos: How much they cost and how to get one?
3 min read 11.09.2026
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Riftbound: Legends, Champions, and Signature spells - Everything You Need to Know
4 min read 10.09.2026
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What are Battlefields, how they work and how they affect gameplay
6 min read 08.09.2026
The Zeta set
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On The Zeta Set in Pauper: New format staples, Prebans, and the Controversy
6 min read 05.09.2026

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15YearAnniversaryBlog-keinRahmen
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15 Years in 15 Moments: The Ultimate Guard Story
Ultimate Guard is celebrating its 15th anniversary! To mark our birthday, we're looking back at 15 exciting, wild, wonderful years – captured in 15 defining moments.
9 min read 14.09.2026
Annie fiery card art for Riftbound
Skura Ultimate Guard Author Skura in Riftbound

Riftbound's BestOf Promos: How much they cost and how to get one?
Riftbound's competitive success is partly thanks to its very unique BestOf Prizing. Today, we'll explore how it works exactly!
3 min read 11.09.2026
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Skura Ultimate Guard Author Skura in Riftbound

Riftbound: Legends, Champions, and Signature spells - Everything You Need to Know
The core deckbuilding and lore aspects of Riftbound are its Legends, Champions, and Signature spells, all of which I'll explore today
4 min read 10.09.2026
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Skura Ultimate Guard Author Skura in Riftbound

What are Battlefields, how they work and how they affect gameplay
Let's explore today what Battlefields in Riftbound are and how their choice meaningfully affects gameplay!
6 min read 08.09.2026
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On The Zeta Set in Pauper: New format staples, Prebans, and the Controversy
Cards from a Secret Lair enter the Pauper format for the first time! Let's discuss the lore behind this development and which cards will shake up the format!
6 min read 05.09.2026
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Skura Ultimate Guard Author Skura in Riftbound

Composition of a Riftbound deck: Legend, Maindeck, Sideboard, Runes, and Battlefields
You want to start a game of Riftbound, but you don't know what your deck needs to contain? Worry not - we'll explore the whole topic here.
5 min read 04.09.2026
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Pokémon Worlds 2026: All hail the dragon king!
The final tournament of the season, the Pokémon Worlds Championship 2026, took place in San Francisco, and Andrew Hedrick was crowned the best deck in the world. If you want to know what happened, the top decks, and the surprises we got, this article is just for you.
10 min read 02.09.2026
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Premodern UW Control Deck Guide
In this article, PieGonti will show his PreModern UW control build, providing meta insight and a sideboard guide to approach any deck in the format.
6 min read 02.09.2026
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Runes, energy, power and channeling - Riftbound's mana system explained
Riftbound's resource system is very unique, and that's why Skura is going to give you a quick intro into how it works exactly.
4 min read 02.09.2026
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The Best and the Worst decks in Modern
PieGonti explains what the best and worst decks are in the current 2026 Modern, explaining his reasoning for each choice.
10 min read 20.08.2026
Magic The Gathering x The Hobbit Prerelease Guide
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Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit Prerelease Guide: Top Cards, Archetypes and Mechanics
The prerelease for Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit is on our doorstep! Let's dive into the world of prerelease together!
7 min read 06.08.2026
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The ultimate guide to the Hide 'nd Sneak Archetype: All you need to know
Hide ‘nd Sneak is one of the most hyped decks in a while but… can the archetype actually live up to the players expectations? What’s the ideal way to build it? In this article, you will find everything you need to understand how to build and play this spooky deck to its fullest!
17 min read 30.07.2026
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Piegonti Ultimate Guard Author PieGonti in Magic: The Gathering

The Best Combo Decks in Premodern
In this article, PieGonti will show you the best combo decks in Premodern, the key gameplan and how to attack them.
6 min read 03.07.2026
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Top 10 cards from Pokémon Pitch Black!
The next set is about to be released, bringing us very much expected Pokémon like Mega Darkrai ex or Mega Excadrill ex. If you want to prepare for Pitch Black, take a look at the best ten cards of the collection!
10 min read 29.06.2026
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Gaia Storm Alena Ultimate Guard Author Elena (Gaia Storm) in Pokémon

Hop’s Trevenant: How a rogue deck won the latest European tournament of the season
Turin’s Special Event was not only the last big tournament of the European season but one of the most surprising events in a while since a deck no one could have potentially expected won: Hop’s Trevenant, a very, very rogue deck.
6 min read 21.06.2026
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Piegonti Ultimate Guard Author PieGonti in Magic: The Gathering

Secret Pauper decks for Paupergeddon Summer 2026
In this article, PieGonti will dive into some unknown or overlooked Pauper decks to test for the upcoming Paupergeddon in July.
8 min read 21.06.2026
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Marvel Super Heroes Prerelease Guide: New Mechanics, Archetypes, and Top Picks
This weekend, June 20–21, it’s time to join iconic heroes and infamous villains for the Magic: The Gathering® | Marvel Super Heroes prerelease at your local game store! Read this guide to see the new mechanics, archetypes, and the best cards!
14 min read 18.06.2026
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IPA Draft Guide: LSV's Crash Course for Invasion Block Draft
IPA Draft is up live on MTGO now June 16th to 23rd! LSV offers a crash course for you to compete in one of the best Limited formats of all time!
5 min read 17.06.2026
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Winners and Losers after the Modern Banlist
In this article, PieGonti takes a look at the Modern metagame, recently shaken up by the latest banlist update, to figure out which decks are thriving, which ones are struggling, and what the format looks like moving forward.
7 min read 12.06.2026
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Gaia Storm Alena Ultimate Guard Author Elena (Gaia Storm) in Pokémon

How Dragapult ex is dominating the Pokémon TCG Metagame
Dragapult ex has consolidated as the strongest strategy of the Standard format in Pokémon TCG. In this article why analyze its reasons for dominating this much as well as the best ways to build the deck.
6 min read 01.06.2026