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Halloween Costume Ideas

It's Halloween this week, so Moko got dressed up as "Sexy Zombie" and is handing out candy to strangers. Join us for costume ideas and answers to your rules questions in this week's spooky issue of Cranial Insertion!

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So you think you can take a Judge Test?

Need help on that upcoming test? Here are a handful of tips and a handful of practice questions.

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Little House of Horrors

Duskmourn: House of Horror is out now and it has brought a wave of scary questions to our inbox. Let's answer some of them in this week's exciting issue of Cranial Insertion!

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Modernest Horizons

Modern Horizons 3 is out now, so get ready to expand your horizons and join us in this week's exciting issue of Cranial Insertion!

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Happy Bronze Anniversary!

Cranial Insertion has been around for nineteen years, so join us as we celebrate this prime-numbered milestone in this week's exciting issue!

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New Year, New Questions

It's New Year's Day, so make your resolutions and join us in this week's celebratory issue of Cranial Insertion!

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Charisma, Weeeeeeeeee!

Your party comes across a Magic rules article. Is it evil or chaotic neutral? Read on to find out!

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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!

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Nostalgia Reprinted

Dominaria Remastered is arriving in stores this weekend, so buckle up and get ready for a trip down memory lane in this week's nostalgic issue of Cranial Insertion!

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Skipping Through All The Time Lines

Life is a journey, time is a river, the door is ajar. Or maybe I have a quick quiz for you.

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Rules and Gabigools

While celebrating Mother's Day at a local restaurant, Andrew encountered a mob boss and made him an offer he couldn't understand. Find out what happened next and join us in this week's exciting episode of Cranial Insertion!

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Mob Nixilis is Making You an Offer You Can't Refuse

It would be a shame if your board state were to meet an unfortunate accident. We could help prevent such unforeseen tragedies.

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On a scale of one to America, how free are you tonight?

Firework celebrations are happening all over the US and we have brought some fireworks of our own. Once again we have readied up an explosive combination of rules questions and answers for you the reader! So join us in this week's thrilling edition of Cranial Insertion!

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Questioning Dead

As it turns out, zombies aren't just hungry for brains, some are hungry for answers too.

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Doubling Season's Greetings!

This week we take a look at the shiny new cards released in Double Masters!! This week we take a look at the shiny new cards released in Double Masters!! Wait, we already did that once! Seems like there is double trouble boiling up with the latest cards from Double Masters, so read on to find out all the answers you will need to arm yourself with in this week's exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

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They say its your birthday!

We are having a party, balloons, cake, blowing out the candles, the whole ball of wax in celebration of our writer Justin's birthday! Of course there are a few provisos, quid pro quo, etc. given Coronavirus is still around, so we respectfully request you wear a mask and maintain proper social distancing while reading and enjoying this week's celebratory edition of Cranial Insertion!

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A Decadent Quiz

We are celebrating an anniversary this week, with Carsten having been with us for 10 years! So break out the party hats and piñatas! No put those back Moko, we do not need fireworks this time. Last time half the office was set on fire. So join us for a decathlon of quizzical inquiry in this week's base 10 edition of Cranial Insertion!

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Watch the Throne

The Knights are facing off against the Fey and the king has returned, while the rich are being robbed from and their goodies are given to the poor! The beauty has met the beast and mermaids are dreaming of walking on land, so we have packed this week's article full of those Eldraine questions you have been wanting to know the answers for! Read on in this week's exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

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Around the Multiverse: From Atlantis to Zhalfir

Traveling around has once again brought us back to our offices with a mailbox chock full of your questions, so in order to alleviate that as well as provide you the answers you seek we have put together yet another exciting article for your reading pleasure! So read on in this week's voyage through Cranial Insertion!

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A Taxing Time of Year

Need some tax relief, well have we got something for you! This week’s latest fresh off the press edition of Cranial Insertion! So join us for a bit of a distraction from all those pesky forms and regulations to turn all your rules questions into a nice refund!

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Quiz Wars

That is no small moon over there, it is just a Wheel of Sun and Moon! This week we have for you an exciting set of questions to challenge your Magic rules senses, in another one of our exciting quiz episodes! So come and tickle your fancy, just watch out for that giant fuzzball over there (Moko just glued a bunch of fur to his bones) as we journey onward in this week's Silver bordered 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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Just a Phase We're Going Through

Commander 2017 is our and we have once again phased back into during our untap in order to answer your rules questions and answers! So join us for this weeks exciting edition of Cranial Insertion! Now all we need to figure out is how to stop our office fro phasing out again.

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A Break from the Sand

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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!

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Leftovers

The holiday festivities are over for the moment, and boy do we ever have a ton of Fruitcake Elementals left over. That will be the last time we let Moko cook. In addition we certainly do have a ton of rules questions left over as well, so we are reheating those up and serving them out for you! So join us for another helping of Cranial Insertion!

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A Wild Quiz Appeared!

You want to be the very best! Like no one ever was, to answer them all is our quest! Wait Moko stop eating those! Okay well while we clean up the mess from Moko you read on with this weeks edition of Cranial Insertion!

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An Eternal Flame

Eternally answering your rules questions all then time every time! If only we could do something about Moko's eternal stench. Anyway join us for this week's exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

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The Top Tin

It's our tinth anniversary and we are celebrating with an article from across the years! This time we feature your questions from the history of Magic and CI with answers from then and now! So read on in this weeks exciting edition oc Cranial Insertion!

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Hail Hydra

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Modern Season's Greetings

The Modern season has kicked off and is now in full swing! So this week we thought we would celebrate by modernizing your rules knowledge with some Q&A on the format du jour! So join us for this weeks exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

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A Commanding Presence

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I Need a Theros

Heróis, monstros, e minatauros, ena! Prepara-te para Theros, mais cedo que o normal, por isso lê a edição mítica da Cranial Insertion desta semana!

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Summer Is Coming

The seasons are heating up (or cooling down, depending on where you are), and so are the rules question! Join Eli with this weeks scorching hot, or freezing cold, edition of Cranial Insertion!

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Standard's Last Gleaming

Round 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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A Cycle of Rings

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Thanks for All the Questions

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Dawn of the Undead

Creatures undying all around us, what are we todo? Why, read this weeks Cranial Insertion, of course! This weeks edition with the standard compliment of zombies, humans, brains, and oh yeah, rules questions too!

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Back and Forth

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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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Triple-Faced Cards Will Kill Magic!

But quadruple-faced quantum-fluxing cards will save it.

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Authorlace

You may write a column as though you were another columnist with the same pay grade. (Pay grade includes benefits.)

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Santa's Hidden Information Violation

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Eight Crazy Rules Questions

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Cyber Monday Special

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Mathemagics!

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Judging 1-2-3 (and some day 4 and 5)

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Heavy Metal Goyf

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Service with a Smile

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Our Word is Bond

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The Comp Rules Rules!

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Trip to the Optometrist

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