MTG Daily News
← Back to archiveSunday, August 2, 2026
Combo of the Day
Sefris of the Hidden Ways + Radiant Solar + Stunt Double + Naga Fleshcrafter
Good morning, traveler! Pull up a chair, grab a quick sip of your morning brew, and let’s get you caught up on everything happening across the multiverse before your day gets away from you.
First off, if you're looking for some brewing inspiration over your coffee, the crew over at MTGGoldfish is diving into Ranked Brawl with a literal god. You can check out their Single Scoop: Giving Ranked Brawl an Honest Try piece to see how Thor is handling the queue by burning and Blood Mooning unsuspecting opponents. And if that wasn't enough thunder for you, they've also somehow cracked land destruction in Standard using that very same deity in Much Abrew: I Figured Out Land Destruction in Standard. Wild times in the meta.
Commander players aren't left out of the fun today, either. Over at EDHREC, Kara put together a neat list on bending color identity rules a bit, and you can see how it all works in the Tolabow, Loch Rascal Deck Tech to find out how to include nonblue cards in a blue-led strategy.
Middle-earth continues to cast a long shadow over our collections, too. Star City Games has gathered up a nice preview of upcoming goodies in their roundup of Each Drop Revealed (So Far) From Magic’s A Marvelous Mathoms™ Secret Lair Superdrop, while Card Kingdom has been tracking what players are actually buying, noting gorgeous treatments, hot reprints, and heavy hitters like Smaug and Mox Amber in their breakdown of Our Top 10 Best Selling Cards from The Hobbit So Far.
Finally, before you head out, have a chuckle at a fun hypothetical over at Draftsim, where they explore what chaos would look like if literally every card ever printed suddenly became legal for a brief window in their piece on how MTG Introduces “Purge Day”, Where Any and All Cards Will Be Legal For 12 Continuous Hours. A terrifying thought experiment for sure!
That's your quick look at today's magic news. May your opening hands be full of lands and your spells always resolve. Until next time, I'll be right here in the lab.