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It's High Noon!
We're meeting you for a Wild-West-style duel at high noon, but our pistols are loaded with knowledge! Join us in this week's exciting issue of Cranial Insertion!
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April's Hidden Joke
It's April Fools' Day, so we're playing a (mild) prank on you. To find out what the prank is, join us in this week's foolish issue of Cranial Insertion!
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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!
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End of Year Quiz II
You sure have learned a lot this year, now let's see if you've retained any of it. It's quiz time!
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Quizzing In The New Year
Let's start the year off with a quiz, want to make sure you didn't forget everything over holiday break.
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Phyrexians on a Plane
The Phyrexians are invading the plane of Dominaria, and there's nothing we can do about that, but at least we can answer your rules questions to help you prepare for battle. Join us in this week's well-oiled episode of Cranial Insertion!
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Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions
Modern season is upon us and we want you to be prepared, so this week's issue is the very model of a Modern rules Q&A article!
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Equiznox 4: Kamigawa Drift
Spring is here, and it's time to take stock of what you have learned. Fasten your seatbelts and join us in this week's quizzical episode of Cranial Insertion!
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Everything Old is Neon Again
Kamigawa Neon Destiny is released into the wild! We have been fighting Ninja all week to bring you yet another great article. So join us in this week's exciting edition of Cranial Insertion.
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1,200 Years Ago and Counting
New Kamigawa is just around the corner, but just how far back do we have to look to see Old Kamigawa?
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End of Year Quiz
Another year almost done and gone, its time we see just how much you have learned.
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I now pronounce you Bride and Gloom
Wedding preparations are here! We here at the CI offices have been busy putting together the bundles of rice, ensuring enough vats of blood are available and a myriad of other sundries for the wedding of the eternity! To that end we know you have questions you need answered to prepare for the decadent occasion so read on in this week’s opulent edition of Cranial Insertion!
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Three Months of Halloween
Who does not love more Halloween? We are spending all of our efforts extending and expanding the evening of all hallows! So as we continue to hand out the ticks we have put together an extra special treat of an article for you this week! So join us for this week's hauntingly exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!
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Angels Fan: A Remembrance
This week we take a look at those glorious angelic beings of Magic! So we have dusted off our rule books to answer those pesky rules interactions that have been bothering you and stopping your summoning of those radiant beings of Magic. So join us in this weeks effulgent edition of Cranial Insertion!
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It's a Mystical Day in this Neighborhood.
With Strixhaven just around the corner, lets take a look at the Mystical Archive that is included in the set.
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Moko's Sweet Sixteen
This article has spent sixteen years in the making! It is the CI anniversary article, and we have jam packed this edition with all of the answers to those pesky rules questions you have! So join us as we get our party hats on and celebrate in this exciting edition of Cranial Insertion! Now with more balloons!
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Let's Do the Time Spiral Again!
Time Spiral remastered is spoiled and ready to hit shelves, so we take a look at those burning questions you have remastered and now in full HD! So join us for this weeks exciting edition of Cranial Insertion as we spiral into the hottest rules answers you need to crush your opponents again!
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Puns N' Roses
We got fun and games! This week we as we ride the night train we have put together one of our famous quiz articles that will tease and test your knowledge of those tricky rules interactions you have been so thoroughly trying to work out! So join us in this week's exciting edition of Cranial Insertion! Tell me who you are gonna believe!
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There's No Business Like Snow Business
With the release of Kaldheim things in the CI office have started to heat up, so in order to cool them off we have taken a load of your questions and jam packed them into this week's article! So read on in this week's chilly edition of Cranial Insertion!
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Among Us
Who is an imposter who and who is not? Join us and take a ride through the rules of MtG to prepare yourself with the knowledge you will need. So as we try and determine who has infiltrated our ranks and is trying to kill us all we arm ourselves with the best knowledge we have to defeat our opponents, in this week's exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!
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A Tale as Old as Time
In the days of yore, magic was controlled by the most powerful sages atop their mountains. These gurus of time and reason, wait... not that kind of magic? Not those types of tales? The Grimmer variety? Read on in this week's mythical edition of Cranial Insertion!
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June Bug
Pardon our mess as we work out some kinks with the sites operation. None of that will stop us from providing high quality answers to your questions, it just means you have to watch your step as you wade through! So read on in this week's mostly operational edition of Cranial Insertion!
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Memorial Day Rules Question Barbecue
In rememberance of those mages who have fallen we bring you the answers to this questions that puzzled them! So that you may learn from their mistakes and enjoy the fruits of their labour! So salute to our fallen brethren and read on in this week’s reflective edition of Cranial Insertion!
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At Long Last
Welcome HomeIt has been a long time in coming and now we continue the saga of Dominaria kicking off the historic occasion we bring you yet another exciting edition of Cranial Insertion! Continuing the proud tradition of answering your rules question and answers!
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A Clean Slate
Welcome to the first article in this new year! After cleaning house we have decided to kick off this new year right! What better way than to provide you with all the rules knowledge you are going to need in the new year! So read on in this years first exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!
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Don't Forget the Merfolk!
Wading through the waters of Ixalan we got lost. However, we were still able to find enough of your rules questions to put together an article. Now all we have to do is figure out what happened to Moko. So read on in this week's fishy edition of Cranial Insertion!
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The Road to El D'Orazca
With Ixalan's release adventurers are out in full swing trying to discover the secrets of this new plane! Rather than risk their lives seeking solutions to life's mysteries they can find their answers here in our latest edition of Cranial Insertion! So read on in this week's exciting edition!
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Hour of Return
The time has come and once again we are back with all the rules questions and answers you can handle! So join us for this week's exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!
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Everything Old is New Again
Modern Masters 2017 is out everywhere and people have started cracking their packs! So we started cracking some of those old and new rules questions about these cards just for you! So join us for some fresh answers to some burning questions you may have had on this week's exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!
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Welcome to the World of Tomorrow!
Tomorrow has arrived and we have all the answers to those questions you have been asking us from the future inboxes at the CI headquarters!!! And with that knowledge we have put together quite the article for you all of those burning questions you did not even know you had answered in this week's exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!
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Incredible Savings
Daylight saving time continues and Spring has sprung in the northern hemisphere while the countdown to Shadows over Innistrad continues, so join us for this week's sunny edition of Cranial Insertion!
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Time Travel For Beginners
Better break out your sonic screwdriver and get ready with your rules questions! As the shadows begin to spread over. So join us for this week's timely edition of Cranial Insertion!
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Leap into Spring
Ramping up for the spring, the rain and the flowers! As spring is right around the corner we are leaping through the piles of questions in our inboxes to answer all of your rules questions! So join us for this week's budding edition of Cranial Insertion!
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Null and Devoid
The Eldrazi menace is taking over every where! All of your mana base are now belong to us! With colorless spells abound we answer more of your exciting rules questions in this weeks exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!
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Roses Are Red
And Fireballs, TooHello and welcome to this year's Valentine edition of Cranial Insertion. Where we will be wooing you over with all the answers to the questions your heart most desired answered! So feel the love and join us for this week's impassioned edition of Cranial Insertion!
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All My Eldrazi
Couch surfing in the middle of the day for something good on TV, while the battle for Zendikar rages on. Wait, Moko stop switching the channels! Well might as well get some rules question and answer on since there is nothing good on to watch and the Eldrazi are outside devouring the plane! So join us for this weeks exciting edition of Cranial Insertion, now with more drama!
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And Now My Gatewatch Begins
Under the Tree of Tales we make this pledge while the Bosk Banneret watches over us with the Fruit of the First Tree in hand. Just watch out for those Tree Monkeys over there. So join us as we pledge this oath to continue answering your rules questions in this week's exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!
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Take your base
Batter up! This week we once again take a swing at all of those rules questions you have been sending us! So read on as we once again attempt to hit it out of the park! Moko stop chewing on the bats...
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A Feast of Rules
You have been stuffing our inboxes with great rules questions. So while we get ready to stuff our faces, we are going to stuff your head with answers to your questions! No, Moko, no... stop that. So read on witch this weeks exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!
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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.
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The Dying of the Light
The waves just keep coming! So with our in boxes bursting with questions we bring you another exciting edition of Cranial Insertion! Not quite fading away just yet.
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Christmas Eve Eve
Almost...There...Twas the night before the night before Christmas and only Moko was stirring in the offices. No, no, Moko put those down, join us again this week for another exciting holiday edition of Cranial Insertion!
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World Enchantment
or, Enchant All the ThingsCranial Insertion enchanting the world with rules question and answers for over seven years now... okay, not that kind of enchantment. Join us for this weeks exciting edition!
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Happy Returns
or, Live from New EnglandHe is back!!! Okay, well technically he never left, but lets give it up for Eli as he takes us through this weeks rules questions. So read on with this weeks exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!
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Dragons; Maze(s)
or, But Never The Twain Shall MeetWelcome to the maze, Dragon's Maze that is. This week we feature questions all around the maze. Join us for this weeks edition of Cranial Insertion!
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For ever and ever
Welcome good souls to the Orzhov Syndicate edition. Your rules question prayers have all been answered, assuming you have made the proper donations of course, in this weeks edition of Cranial Insertion!
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Ravnica: City of Cats
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Standard's Last Gleaming
or, You Spin Me Right RoundRound and round we go, like a record baby! Rotation season is in full swing as we spin ourselves dizzy on preexisting rules questions. So join james on his revolutionary journey around the CR in this weeks exciting Cranial Insertion!
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The Sun is a mass of incandescent gas
(or, if you prefer, a miasma of incandescent plasma)With the sun shining down it is hot, hot, hot! Just like this edition of Cranial Insertion, so join us inside with some mind melting rules questions!
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Born on the Fourth of July
(or, ooh, look at the explosions!)It is an explosive celebration! Join James as we celebrate the 4th of July by liberating all those rules questions Cranial Insertion style!
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Sound the Horns!
(or, what's that buzzing noise?)Come on in and raise a cup along with James while he plays his vuvuzela and answers all your rules questions! It is Magic World Cup fever here at Cranial Insertion, read on!
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All Hallow's Eve... Eve
The spooktacular rules question fun continues as we ramp up toward Halloween here in the States with our Cranial Insertion pre-All Hallow's Eve edition!
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