Here you can find my collection of lengthy “reviews” about various Magic: The Gathering sets starting from around mid 2023. Unlike most reviews focusing on either actual card power or the set’s storylines, I’m more concerned about weirder things, namely the different cycles and showcase frames and how they’re used to make the set what they are. With that goal in mind, maybe I should have picked a different name, tell me which one somewhere. Update: Should I go with “Trial Cycles?” Or maybe call it a “Teardown” instead of a “Review” because we like technical counting more than nostalgia over here.
This collection is created and managed by discreterhystic, the person whose not very active bluesky account is to the right of this signature.
discreterhystic (@pearlorgemonaswing.bsky.social)
Lengths of the different set reviews will be denoted by colors and may reflect how I feel about that particular set:
| Red | Yellow | Green | Blue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5-10 pages | 10-20 pages | 20-30 pages | 30+ pages |
| There is nothing interesting | I may go further sometime in the future, or I can’t | I went thorough enough, so set is interesting | Probably a gold set, like for example Tarkir |
The list is ordered by the rough timeline of me writing these reviews, so it simultaneously goes forward and backward in time.
<aside> ⌛
Current roadmap, a loose one by this point in time:
Something that would come in handy to use along with these rants are these set skeleton spreadsheets. This is very much the root of this project. One is for the draft set, the other is for the commander decks, the rows are always rarity, the columns are always colors, the colors will represent showcase frame and I may not have updated the former fully to dark mode.
If you want a different sorting of these sets, I may have you covered now.