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05/12/2025

Try not to MSBleed in MSP

Justin was in Minneapolis for the RC. He has come back with a backpack pull of questions and answers to share with all of you.

By Justin Hovdenes (0 Comments)
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(05/12/2025)
Try not to MSBleed in MSP
By Justin Hovdenes
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03/24/2025

Happy Platinum Anniversary!

Cranial Insertion is turning twenty years old this week and we're taking a trip down memory lane, so join us in this week's celebratory issue of Cranial Insertion!

By Nathan Long (0 Comments)
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(03/24/2025)
Happy Platinum Anniversary!
By Nathan Long
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03/03/2025

Digging Into My Backlog

Nathan is getting an early start on spring cleaning and is tackling a backlog of questions that has built up, so join us in this week's exciting issue of Cranial Insertion!

By Nathan Long (0 Comments)
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(03/03/2025)
Digging Into My Backlog
By Nathan Long
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04/29/2024

NRG St. Paul - Tournament Report

What happens in St. Paul does not stay in St. Paul, so join us for a special tournament report in this week's exciting issue of Cranial Insertion!

By Justin Hovdenes (0 Comments)
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(04/29/2024)
NRG St. Paul - Tournament Report
By Justin Hovdenes
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10/30/2023

You Make Me Feel Like It's Halloween

It's almost Halloween, and we're giving out brain candy at the Cranial Insertion offices, so join us in this week's frighteningly educational issue of Cranial Insertion!

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(10/30/2023)
You Make Me Feel Like It's Halloween
By Carsten Haese
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08/21/2023

We're Sending you Back...to the Gen Con!

Step into our time machine and fasten your seatbelts as Justin takes you back in time a few weeks to tell you all about GenCon 2023 in this week's time-travelling issue of Cranial Insertion!

By Justin Hovdenes (0 Comments)
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(08/21/2023)
We're Sending you Back...to the Gen Con!
By Justin Hovdenes
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03/29/2021

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!

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(03/29/2021)
Moko's Sweet Sixteen
By Carsten Haese
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07/30/2018

The Big Twenty-Five

Magic is turning 25! So we have brought to you a celebration unlike any other (okay maybe just like all the other celebrations here at the CI offices). To that effect we are breaking out all the answers to those pesky rules questions that you have wanted answered over the past 25 years! So join us for this week's exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(07/30/2018)
The Big Twenty-Five
By Carsten Haese
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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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04/17/2017

Sacred Cats

The Amonkhet prerelease is almost upon us and with it bringing us all the cats we can handle! However, before that we have another dose of rules questions brought to us by you the readers for your edification!!! So join us as we produce all the answers you requested and some cat-based puns along the way, in this week's exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

By James Bennett (2 Comments)
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(04/17/2017)
Sacred Cats
By James Bennett
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11/23/2015

Food Coloring

Time to give thanks here in the US for all of those things that we have this year and that includes some spectacular rules questions and answers for you! So cozy up to the fire and read on in this week's exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

By James Bennett (7 Comments)
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(11/23/2015)
Food Coloring
By James Bennett
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02/23/2015

Under Plowed

or, Don't Hire Goblin Digging Team

Buried under both snow and piles of rules questions we begin to dig our way out. If only Wizards had created Silver-Inlaid Shovels instead. Join us for this weeks exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

By James Bennett (0 Comments)
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(02/23/2015)
Under Plowed
or, Don't Hire Goblin Digging Team
By James Bennett
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11/24/2014

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!

By James Bennett (0 Comments)
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(11/24/2014)
A Feast of Rules
By James Bennett
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06/24/2013

What happens in North Canton...

...stays in North Canton

Lady luck is on our side! Though with our rules knowledge the odds just might be stacked in our favor. So join us for this fortuitous edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Carsten Haese (7 Comments)
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(06/24/2013)
What happens in North Canton...
...stays in North Canton
By Carsten Haese
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(09/10/2012)
Raining Cats and Dogs
but Mostly Cats
By Eli Shiffrin
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02/20/2012

 

(02/20/2012)
Back and Forth
or, Transcontinental Judging
By Eli Shiffrin
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08/31/2009

The Calm Before the Storm

By Brian Paskoff (0 Comments)
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(08/31/2009)
The Calm Before the Storm
By Brian Paskoff
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08/03/2009

 

(08/03/2009)
More Heavy Metals
or, We've Got Good Chemistry
By Aaron Stevenson
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12/29/2008

Taking Down the Lights

By Brian Paskoff (0 Comments)
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(12/29/2008)
Taking Down the Lights
By Brian Paskoff
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