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02/26/2024

A Touch of Modern

Justin is showing us seven of his own Modern decks and answers rules questions that come up with those decks, so join us in this week's exciting issue of Cranial Insertion!

By Justin Hovdenes (0 Comments)
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(02/26/2024)
A Touch of Modern
By Justin Hovdenes
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01/18/2021

Calm before the Viking Storm

Some fear Viking invasions, I mostly try to live for today.

By Justin Hovdenes (0 Comments)
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(01/18/2021)
Calm before the Viking Storm
By Justin Hovdenes
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11/09/2020

Bingewatching

With flu season approaching and Coronavirus being an ongoing problem, we at Cranial Insertion are spending more time indoors, which gives us the opportunity to catch up on our favorite TV shows and to answer your rules questions. Join us for this week's watchful edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Nathan Long (0 Comments)
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(11/09/2020)
Bingewatching
By Nathan Long
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06/08/2020

You guys I'm like really smart now.

You don't even know. You could ask me, Andrew what's the biggest power/toughness aura in the game? And I'd be like, 'blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah blah blah.' Giving you the exact right answer.

Here at the CI offices we are always preparing, learning, and responding to all your rules questions and answers! The most important thing to remember is where all the files are, in the computer! The files are in the computer! So join us for this week's intellectually advanced edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Andrew Villarrubia (0 Comments)
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(06/08/2020)
You guys I'm like really smart now.
You don't even know. You could ask me, Andrew what's the biggest power/toughness aura in the game? And I'd be like, 'blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah blah blah.' Giving you the exact right answer.
By Andrew Villarrubia
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08/12/2019

How Do I Tell a Card I Want to Kiss It?

Hello everyone and welcome back to yet another exciting edition of Cranial Insertion! Here we are continuing our summer season of fun and excitement with the answers you need for all those questions you have with regard to your most fun and exciting summer activity, things like playing at the beach, walking the boardwalk, pickup games of baseball or softball, or even more Magic! Okay, so really our focus is just going to be on that last one, so join us once again for another hot session of questions and answers!

By Andrew Villarrubia (0 Comments)
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(08/12/2019)
How Do I Tell a Card I Want to Kiss It?
By Andrew Villarrubia
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07/29/2019

A Lotus By Any Other Name

O’ Lotus Vale, O’ Lotus Vale. Wouldst a Lotus by any other name still add three mana to my mana pool? We dive into that question and more in this week’s mana hungry edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Nathan Long (0 Comments)
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(07/29/2019)
A Lotus By Any Other Name
By Nathan Long
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07/08/2019

Into the Core

Back at it again, we are delving deep into the rules, so we can get at the heart of those burning questions you have! So jump right in so we can dig into the crux of the issues at hand! Join us for this week's foundational edition of Cranial Insertion! Now with more nitty gritty!

By Charlotte Sable (0 Comments)
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(07/08/2019)
Into the Core
By Charlotte Sable
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03/18/2019

Lost in the Library

This week we bring you the knowledge you seek from deep within the halls of the Azorious library. Seeking the rules knowledge we need in order to better play Magic since the inception of the guilds! So join us for this week's insightful edition of Cranial Insertion! Now if only we could find our way back to the CI offices...

By Nathan Long (0 Comments)
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(03/18/2019)
Lost in the Library
By Nathan Long
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10/29/2018

A Very Frugal Halloween

Tis but a short while before the night of All Hallows’ Eve and you would think with a zombie monkey as our mascot we would be more prepared! Alas we do have another helping of the usual for you! So join us for this week’s freighteningly good edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Nathan Long (0 Comments)
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(10/29/2018)
A Very Frugal Halloween
By Nathan Long
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07/09/2018

Magic Origins: Nicol Bolas

He is back!!!! Nicol Bolas has returned and with him he has brought back the return of Core sets in Magic! So this week we take a look at all of those core rules questions that have been burning in the fires of Grixis, or where they stuck in the Grixis mire, or perhaps drowning in the desire for greater knowledge! Regardless have we got the solution for your woes, with all the answers you need! So read on in this week's exciting edition of Cranial Insertion! Now with more URB mana!

By Nathan Long (1 Comment)
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(07/09/2018)
Magic Origins: Nicol Bolas
By Nathan Long
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06/25/2018

Midsummer Revel

The revels of the summer have started to wane but as we enjoy the height of the season, we look to rejoice with those things that we know and love best! Rules questions and answers! To that end we have jam packed yet another article full of answers to those budding questions in your mind! So read on in this week's heated edition of Cranial Insertion! Now with more pollen!

By Charlotte Sable (0 Comments)
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(06/25/2018)
Midsummer Revel
By Charlotte Sable
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03/12/2018

Spring Forward

Switching up the clocks and springing forward an hour, so with less sleep we are bringing you as many answers to your questions that we could jam into out 23 hour day! So join us for this week's exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(03/12/2018)
Spring Forward
By Carsten Haese
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08/14/2017

Total Eclipse of the Sun

The eclipse is looming to cut a swath through Noth America. So we decided to put on our Glasses of Urza and answer your rules questions! So join us for this week's exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Nathan Long (3 Comments)
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(08/14/2017)
Total Eclipse of the Sun
By Nathan Long
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(07/03/2017)
A Break from the Sand
By Nathan Long
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01/30/2017

How Revolting!

The Aether uprising is in full swing as is the search for a new cleaning crew here at the Cranial Insertion offices. That is the last time we let Moko do the party planning.... While we wade through the cesspool that has become our office we take a peek inside our mailbox to respond to your rules questions, so join us for this weeks exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Callum Milne (0 Comments)
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(01/30/2017)
How Revolting!
By Callum Milne
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12/12/2016

Twelve Days of Magic

Eight Grasp of Darkness, Seven Swans of Bryn Argoll, Six Dauthi Slaying, Five Sol Rings! Four Hurkyl's Recall, Three Henge of Ramos, Two Meandering Turtle, and a question with an answer for thee! Join us for this weeks festive edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Nathan Long (3 Comments)
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(12/12/2016)
Twelve Days of Magic
By Nathan Long
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11/28/2016

Don't go chasing planar falls

Exciting things are happening here at the Cranial Insertion offices, and a lot of it depends on the results of our planar die rolls. Whoosh... changing planes again! So join us as we put together a selection of your questions based on everyone's favorite plane shifting product Planechase! So join us for this week's exciting edition of Cranial Insertion, Planechase style!

By James Bennett (0 Comments)
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(11/28/2016)
Don't go chasing planar falls
By James Bennett
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04/25/2016

Weather Report

Spring is here again and the weather is bringing in the flowers! So we bring in this week's rules questions brought to us by none other than you! So join us for this week's exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Callum Milne (4 Comments)
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(04/25/2016)
Weather Report
By Callum Milne
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08/18/2014

ASAP

We are off and racing over here at the Cranial Insertion offices. As we rush to answer the flood of new questions we bring you this weeks exciting edition! Read on for all the rules question and answer glory in as quickly a manner as computationally possible.

By Callum Milne (4 Comments)
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(08/18/2014)
ASAP
By Callum Milne
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06/30/2014

Eternal Sunshine

Summertime is around the corner and so is the release of M15. So while we wait we take you on a journey through the mind answering your rules questions with spotless responses. So join us for this weeks exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

By James Bennett (0 Comments)
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(06/30/2014)
Eternal Sunshine
By James Bennett
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01/20/2014

Old and Busted

Not the New Hotness

Top coat, top hat, black shades, white gloves, lookin' sharp and looking for rules answers! They come running just as fast as they can. 'Coz every creature is crazy 'bout a sharp dressed planeswalker.

By Callum Milne (0 Comments)
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(01/20/2014)
Old and Busted
Not the New Hotness
By Callum Milne
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04/08/2013

Sunset, Sunrise

Another day has come to a close. As the new day dawns here at Cranial Insertion and Moko is clawing to get out. We welcome Callum, so read on to get all your rules knowledge!

By Callum Milne (5 Comments)
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(04/08/2013)
Sunset, Sunrise
By Callum Milne
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12/12/2011

Forty Candles

One Year Older, One Year Wiser?

Join us as we break out our candelabras (of Tawnos) and celebrate another year with Carsten on this eve of his birthday! Oh, yeah and lets not forget more rules question fun than any of us can handle, in yet another exciting pre-holiday edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(12/12/2011)
Forty Candles
One Year Older, One Year Wiser?
By Carsten Haese
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10/04/2010

Nim Deathmetal

By Brian Paskoff (0 Comments)
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(10/04/2010)
Nim Deathmetal
By Brian Paskoff
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11/30/2009

 

(11/30/2009)
Gobble Gobble
or, Hungry Eli Is Hungry
By Eli Shiffrin
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09/17/2007

An (Re-)Introduction to Magicese

By Thijs van Ommen (0 Comments)
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(09/17/2007)
An (Re-)Introduction to Magicese
By Thijs van Ommen
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10/24/2005

Bring Out Your Dead

By Thijs van Ommen (0 Comments)
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(10/24/2005)
Bring Out Your Dead
By Thijs van Ommen
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09/05/2005

Special Pre-Ravnica Edition

By Thijs van Ommen (0 Comments)
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(09/05/2005)
Special Pre-Ravnica Edition
By Thijs van Ommen
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06/20/2005

An Introduction to Magicese

By Thijs van Ommen (0 Comments)
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(06/20/2005)
An Introduction to Magicese
By Thijs van Ommen
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05/09/2005

Don't Eat the Cake

By Jeff Vondruska (0 Comments)
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(05/09/2005)
Don't Eat the Cake
By Jeff Vondruska
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