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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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03/13/2023

It's About Time!

The arrival of Daylight Saving Time has prompted us to ponder the mysteries of time, so join us in this week's well-timed issue of Cranial Insertion!

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(03/13/2023)
It's About Time!
By Carsten Haese
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05/03/2021

Study Hall, Detention, and Make Up Tests

School can be tough, but its worth the work.

By Justin Hovdenes (0 Comments)
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(05/03/2021)
Study Hall, Detention, and Make Up Tests
By Justin Hovdenes
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04/27/2020

Order of Operations (Ikoria Version)

or, Don't Touch the Sides

This week we take a look at some of the rules updates that Ikoria has brought in. So into the den of the monsters, we go as we take a deep dive into the section of the rules best known as layers! Join us in this week's exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Moko (0 Comments)
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(04/27/2020)
Order of Operations (Ikoria Version)
or, Don't Touch the Sides
By Moko
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12/30/2019

2020 Vision

The new year is almost upon us! In fact, it very well might be 2020 by the time you read this. Greetings, future human! Please enjoy our fine selection of Magic rules questions as we do our thing once again at Cranial Insertion, new year or not.

By Charlotte Sable (0 Comments)
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(12/30/2019)
2020 Vision
By Charlotte Sable
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09/03/2018

School's in Session

Summer is nearing its end, and schools in the US have started a new school year, so let's open our textbooks and answer all your rules questions. Read on and join us for this week's particularly educational episode!

By Nathan Long (0 Comments)
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(09/03/2018)
School's in Session
By Nathan Long
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07/10/2017

Counting the Hours

With the Hour of Devastation prerelease in the books we are counting down the time until the doom of the multiverse! Oh, hail all powerful Nicol Bolas! So join us in celebrating his excellence in this week's exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Callum Milne (1 Comment)
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(07/10/2017)
Counting the Hours
By Callum Milne
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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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03/07/2016

LMGTFY

Or Let Me Gatherer That For You

Gathering up some of your rules questions and answers we are excited to present this weeks article. We have searched far and wide through all of your questions and answers to bring you yet another exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Nathan Long (2 Comments)
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(03/07/2016)
LMGTFY
Or Let Me Gatherer That For You
By Nathan Long
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02/01/2016

And Boy, Are My Arms Tired!

Flying high with yet another exciting set of your rules questions! Once again we take a look at interactions brought to us by Oath of the Gatewatch! So join us for this weeks exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Callum Milne (0 Comments)
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(02/01/2016)
And Boy, Are My Arms Tired!
By Callum Milne
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12/28/2015

Endings Are Just Beginnings

or, Out with the Old...

The year has come to a close and we celebrate with a bang here at the Cranial Insertion offices. To ring in the new year we bring you some power packed questions and answers to your rules questions! So read on in this weeks exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(12/28/2015)
Endings Are Just Beginnings
or, Out with the Old...
By Carsten Haese
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12/21/2015

Debatably Yours

The race is heating up and we have some doozies for you this week. How will the candidates respond to the most pertinent questions on everybody's mind! Find out in this week's exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

By James Bennett (0 Comments)
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(12/21/2015)
Debatably Yours
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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10/12/2015

Food Colouring

We are honouring the day of thanks and to do that we are serving up a huge helping of rules questions and answers for you! So join us for another exciting edition of Cranial Insertion, and watch out for the stuffing, I think it's alive.

By Callum Milne (6 Comments)
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(10/12/2015)
Food Colouring
By Callum Milne
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09/28/2015

Back to Zendikar

or, Snacks on a Plane

The Eldrazi are on the lose and eating everything in sight! So join the fight against them and arm yourself with all the rules knowledge you can handle. Join us for this appetizing edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Carsten Haese (3 Comments)
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(09/28/2015)
Back to Zendikar
or, Snacks on a Plane
By Carsten Haese
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07/27/2015

Fin de siècle

or, Thanks for Ten Years of Fish

It is the end of an era as Eli signs off with his last article, we bring you a special treat in the form of a quiz article! So join us for this weeks exciting edition of Cranial Insertion! P.S. Do not eat the cake.

By Eli Shiffrin (7 Comments)
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(07/27/2015)
Fin de siècle
or, Thanks for Ten Years of Fish
By Eli Shiffrin
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03/16/2015

Soon, Suddenly Dragons

We are warming up with a preliminary round of your red hot burning questions as we wait to see your initial scorching inquiries involving Dragons of Tarkir next week. So join us for this weeks exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

By James Bennett (0 Comments)
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(03/16/2015)
Soon, Suddenly Dragons
By James Bennett
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07/21/2014

Kaboom!

Kaboom! Join us this week for this exploding edition of Cranial Insertion! Kaboom!

By Callum Milne (0 Comments)
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(07/21/2014)
Kaboom!
By Callum Milne
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11/25/2013

 

(11/25/2013)
A Family Affair
By Callum Milne
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05/27/2013

A Memorial Day Parade of Rules Questions

Ashes of the Fallen, Remember the Fallen, Honor the Fallen, Ob Nixilis the Fallen! It is Memorial Day in the States so join us as Carsten takes us through a cavalcade of rules questions and answers in this exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(05/27/2013)
A Memorial Day Parade of Rules Questions
By Carsten Haese
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07/02/2012

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!

By James Bennett (8 Comments)
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(07/02/2012)
Born on the Fourth of July
(or, ooh, look at the explosions!)
By James Bennett
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03/26/2012

Copper Anniversary!

Copper and wool, oh my! We have prepared an exciting anniversary article full of special metallic and cloth rules questions! Okay they are just normal rules questions, in this exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Brian Paskoff (1 Comment)
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(03/26/2012)
Copper Anniversary!
By Brian Paskoff
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05/02/2011

Authorlace

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

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

By Laurie Cheers (0 Comments)
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(05/02/2011)
Authorlace
Or, You may write a column as though you were another columnist with the same pay grade. (Pay grade includes benefits.)
By Laurie Cheers
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04/11/2011

Perfection Made Text

or, The Father of Machines Is Coming

Our monkeys call out to the lost and the broken. They fear simian zombies, even as we offer immortality.

By Eli Shiffrin (0 Comments)
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(04/11/2011)
Perfection Made Text
or, The Father of Machines Is Coming
By Eli Shiffrin
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01/03/2011

Happy New Myr!

or, Here's to another year of reckless puns

There's a festive New Year ball drop on Mirrodin, too. Only the ball is the Mirari, and thousands are killed. Still lots of drinking though.

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(01/03/2011)
Happy New Myr!
or, Here's to another year of reckless puns
By Carsten Haese
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07/19/2010

 

(07/19/2010)
The Eleventh Hour
or, I bet you saw that one coming!
By Carsten Haese
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06/21/2010

 

(06/21/2010)
The Enemy of My Enemy
or, Enemy Mine, Mine, Mine!
By Eli Shiffrin
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05/24/2010

 

(05/24/2010)
Future Sight (Not the Set or the Card)
By Brian Paskoff
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03/01/2010

 

(03/01/2010)
Judging 1-2-3 (and some day 4 and 5)
By Brian Paskoff
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(12/21/2009)
Have a Zombie Monkey Christmas
or, Up on the Rooftop with Brains and Guts
By Eli Shiffrin
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11/16/2009

Crouching LOLCAT, Hidden Message

By Aaron Stevenson (0 Comments)
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(11/16/2009)
Crouching LOLCAT, Hidden Message
By Aaron Stevenson
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09/21/2009

Kicking It

By Brian Paskoff (0 Comments)
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(09/21/2009)
Kicking It
By Brian Paskoff
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09/14/2009

Dominoes

or, One Right After Another

By Aaron Stevenson (0 Comments)
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(09/14/2009)
Dominoes
or, One Right After Another
By Aaron Stevenson
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(07/20/2009)
Order of Operations (M10 Version)
or, Don't Touch the Sides
By Eli Shiffrin
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01/26/2009

In All Likelihood

By Brian Paskoff (0 Comments)
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(01/26/2009)
In All Likelihood
By Brian Paskoff
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01/19/2009

Goyf Season!

By Brian Paskoff (0 Comments)
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(01/19/2009)
Goyf Season!
By Brian Paskoff
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12/15/2008

For Great Justice

By Aaron Stevenson (0 Comments)
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(12/15/2008)
For Great Justice
By Aaron Stevenson
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09/15/2008

 

(09/15/2008)
You Have a Choice
or, We Are Your Voice
By Moko
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06/30/2008

 

(06/30/2008)
Waiting For Moko
(This Is Your Brain On Urchin)
By Diane Colley
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05/12/2008

 

(05/12/2008)
Flood of Questions
or, It's Raining Qs and As
By Eli Shiffrin
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05/05/2008

We Have Arrived

By Diane Colley (0 Comments)
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(05/05/2008)
We Have Arrived
By Diane Colley
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04/28/2008

Shadowmoor Infiltrator

By Tom Fowler (0 Comments)
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(04/28/2008)
Shadowmoor Infiltrator
By Tom Fowler
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