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10/21/2024

This is a (Play)test

In preparation for MagicCon Las Vegas, Nathan is taking a look at the playtest cards from Mystery Booster 2, so join us in this week's wild and wacky issue of Cranial Insertion!

By Nathan Long (0 Comments)
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(10/21/2024)
This is a (Play)test
By Nathan Long
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09/02/2024

Bear Cubs and Internet Chatrooms

Chatrooms have questions and we will add Bear Cubs to as many of them as we can.

By Justin Hovdenes (0 Comments)
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(09/02/2024)
Bear Cubs and Internet Chatrooms
By Justin Hovdenes
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10/24/2022

Welcome to Magic 30!

Nathan is preparing to go to Las Vegas for the big Magic 30 convention this weekend, but first here's another selection of Magic rules questions to answer, so join us in this week's celebratory issue of Cranial Insertion!

By Nathan Long (0 Comments)
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(10/24/2022)
Welcome to Magic 30!
By Nathan Long
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10/12/2020

Equiznox 3: Better Late Than Never!

This is it! The time of year that you have been waiting for it is happening once again! We here at the Cranial Insertion offices have been waiting for this and Moko has been plotting all year to put together the most devious of those questions for you to answer! In this reversal of roles quiz article to test your knowledge of those pesky MtG rules! So join us for this weeks exciting edition!

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(10/12/2020)
Equiznox 3: Better Late Than Never!
By Carsten Haese
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09/09/2019

Mom, Volrath Won't Stop Copying Me!

Commander 2019 has dropped and we are taking a look over all of those rules questions that you have sent in, and decided those would be good to make an article with. So we set about with good old pen and paper to make copies of each of them and then realized that our articles are only digital! Join us for this week's offprint edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Andrew Villarrubia (0 Comments)
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(09/09/2019)
Mom, Volrath Won't Stop Copying Me!
By Andrew Villarrubia
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01/14/2019

The Anticipation is Killing Me

The waiting is the hardest part sometimes. This week we continue taking a look at those questions you have wanted answers to for what seems an eternity now. You asked and we answered! So join us in this week's anticipated edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Nathan Long (0 Comments)
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(01/14/2019)
The Anticipation is Killing Me
By Nathan Long
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02/19/2018

Digging Through the Rare Box

We are digging through the rules questions to find all those answers to the hidden gems that you were looking for! So join us in this week's sparkly edition of Cranial Insertion. Now with more speculars.

By Nathan Long (0 Comments)
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(02/19/2018)
Digging Through the Rare Box
By Nathan Long
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01/08/2018

New Year's Resolutions

This year here at the CI office we have started making our resolutions, and of course as always we continue to answer all of your rules questions once again!!! So join us for this week's exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Charlotte Sable (0 Comments)
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(01/08/2018)
New Year's Resolutions
By Charlotte Sable
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12/18/2017

A Week Off for the Holidays

It is that time of year again! The holiday season is upon us and of course we have kicked our celebration into high gear once again! We just wish Moko did not have a thing for tinsel. So to continue our celebration we have once again brought you an article jam packed with all of your holiday favorite rules questions and answers! So read on in this week's festive edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Nathan Long (2 Comments)
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(12/18/2017)
A Week Off for the Holidays
By Nathan Long
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11/13/2017

Release the Icons!

Iconic Masters is close at hand, so we take a look at some of the most iconic questions in our inbox! All the while we try to provide masterful answers to those questions, in this week's exciting edition of Cranial Insertion! Now with 20% more icons to storm castles with.

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(11/13/2017)
Release the Icons!
By Carsten Haese
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05/22/2017

Something Only a Mummy Could Love

Moko is still mummified and we are enjoying a bit of peace around the office. With that we take the time to answer some of your most pressing rules questions! So join us in this week's exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Callum Milne (7 Comments)
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(05/22/2017)
Something Only a Mummy Could Love
By Callum Milne
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06/06/2016

Where the Orange Barrels Bloom

or, Summer in Ohio

Watch your step! Summer is approaching and we have started to renovate our inbox as it is chock full of your rules questions. Pardon our construction, as we build out and update the infrastructure necessary to answer all of your rules questions and answers! So join us for this week's unyielding edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(06/06/2016)
Where the Orange Barrels Bloom
or, Summer in Ohio
By Carsten Haese
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05/23/2016

Modern Artistry

Ah, the modern times! With such wonderful artists as Piet Mondrian and Andy Warhol. Wait not those artists? Magic artists then, Anthony Palumbo, ... that is not it either?! Okay then, join us for this week's virtuosity of rules question and answers!

By James Bennett (0 Comments)
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(05/23/2016)
Modern Artistry
By James Bennett
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10/05/2015

Rotarian's Dinner

or,

I said, I would like to buy a vowel, not Moko could you please howl. We have some more puzzling questions for you served up just right. So take a spin through this weeks exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

By James Bennett (2 Comments)
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(10/05/2015)
Rotarian's Dinner
or,
By James Bennett
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05/18/2015

Modern Remastered

Back at it again enjoying some of the old time classics revisiting them with the old and the new. So join us as we modernize your arsenal and set you up to master each rules question in this weeks exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(05/18/2015)
Modern Remastered
By Carsten Haese
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11/04/2013

 

(11/04/2013)
A Commanding Presence
By James Bennett
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06/17/2013

Summer Is Coming

or, Winter in the Southern Hemisphere

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!

By Eli Shiffrin (5 Comments)
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(06/17/2013)
Summer Is Coming
or, Winter in the Southern Hemisphere
By Eli Shiffrin
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11/26/2012

 

(11/26/2012)
Thanks Given
By Carsten Haese
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(09/03/2012)
Realms... Charted?
By James Bennett
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01/17/2011

Snow-Covered Goyf

Could somebody please cast Melting on us?

By Brian Paskoff (0 Comments)
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(01/17/2011)
Snow-Covered Goyf
By Brian Paskoff
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05/25/2009

The Comp Rules Rules!

By Brian Paskoff (0 Comments)
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(05/25/2009)
The Comp Rules Rules!
By Brian Paskoff
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(04/27/2009)
I'm Thinking ARB
or, Gold, It Makes the World Go Round
By Eli Shiffrin
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04/20/2009

Grass Clippings

By Aaron Stevenson (0 Comments)
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(04/20/2009)
Grass Clippings
By Aaron Stevenson
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03/23/2009

Spring Break Goyfapalooza

By Brian Paskoff (0 Comments)
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(03/23/2009)
Spring Break Goyfapalooza
By Brian Paskoff
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01/12/2009

 

(01/12/2009)
Feeling Crabby
or, Old Bay Will Haunt My Dreams
By Eli Shiffrin
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11/24/2008

 

(11/24/2008)
Everybody Wants to Rule the Rules
By Moko
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(11/10/2008)
Statecraft
or, Bet You Didn't Realize That Was a Card
By Eli Shiffrin
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(10/20/2008)
Riddle of the Chimp
or, The Answer Is Obviously "Brains"
By Eli Shiffrin
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(08/18/2008)
Form of . . . a Snake!
or, Anything Beats the Sucky Wonder Twin
Who Always Turned Into a Puddle of Water
By Tom Fowler
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(12/24/2007)
Decorating the Christmas Treefolk
Or, Dashing Through the Snow
in a One-Beast Arcum's Sleigh
By Tom Fowler
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11/12/2007

Quizzing Phelddagrif

By Tom Fowler (0 Comments)
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(11/12/2007)
Quizzing Phelddagrif
By Tom Fowler
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10/29/2007

 

(10/29/2007)
Dreadful Questions
or, "BOO!" Says the Subtitle
By Eli Shiffrin
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