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01/29/2024

The Short Winter

Here's the weather forecast for the Cranial Insertion offices. Less snow than usual for this time of year, but there's a steady rain of rules questions, so let's go ahead and answer some of them!

By Nathan Long (0 Comments)
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(01/29/2024)
The Short Winter
By Nathan Long
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12/11/2023

Age Is Just a Number

It's Carsten's birthday this week, so join us in this week's celebratory issue of Cranial Insertion!

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(12/11/2023)
Age Is Just a Number
By Carsten Haese
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02/20/2023

From Phyrexia With Love

Roses are red. Violets are blue. Resistance is futile. We want you.

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(02/20/2023)
From Phyrexia With Love
By Carsten Haese
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11/23/2020

Legendary Leftovers

The legend continues as we take a peek at some of those fantastical cards coming from the new set Commander Legends! With all of that legendary might pulling its weight around you have more questions than ever, so we have broken out the big guns this week and put out mettle to the test to once again answer all of those questions to satisfy your curiosity. So join us for this week's legendary edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(11/23/2020)
Legendary Leftovers
By Carsten Haese
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06/04/2018

Travel Madness

Being on the road a lot brings with it a lot of questions, and so this week we bring you some answers that we've found on our travels! If you need a good distraction between unpacking from one trip and packing for the next one, check out this week’s well-traveled edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Charlotte Sable (0 Comments)
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(06/04/2018)
Travel Madness
By Charlotte Sable
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10/23/2017

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!

By Nathan Long (0 Comments)
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(10/23/2017)
Don't Forget the Merfolk!
By Nathan Long
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(07/03/2017)
A Break from the Sand
By Nathan Long
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10/31/2016

Trick or Treat!

or, Happy Halloween!

It's Halloween, and Moko is stepping in as a guest author to answer our latest batch of rules question. Put on your costumes and go trick-or-treating with Moko in this candy-filled episode of Cranial Insertion!

By Moko (1 Comment)
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(10/31/2016)
Trick or Treat!
or, Happy Halloween!
By Moko
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09/05/2016

Working for the Weekend

Toiling away the hours preparing articles for our fans out there! Despite the holiday in the US we are still working here at the Cranial Insertion offices, because we know you out there need your weekly fix of rules knowledge! And we are prepared to provide it once again! Now if only we could get Moko to actually complete something productive for a change. Alas, read on in this week's energetic article of Cranial Insertion!

By James Bennett (2 Comments)
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(09/05/2016)
Working for the Weekend
By James Bennett
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05/30/2016

School's Out

School's out for summer, school's out for ever!! Wait, what not forever, just for the summer? Okay, well good thing they stopped Moko's plot with those incendiary devices. Summertime is upon us as school is ending; however, do not let that stop your learning of all those Magic rules and interactions!! So join us for this week's fact filled edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Nathan Long (0 Comments)
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(05/30/2016)
School's Out
By Nathan Long
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04/15/2013

 

(04/15/2013)
Spoiled rotten
By James Bennett
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01/14/2013

Three Years and Counting

It's Carsten's 3rd anniversary with Cranial Insertion, come inside and join the celebration! See you in this leathery edition of Cranial Insertion. Oh, yeah and do not forget to bring all your rules questions!

By Carsten Haese (9 Comments)
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(01/14/2013)
Three Years and Counting
By Carsten Haese
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04/30/2012

If Life Gives You Demons

or, Make Demonade

Since summertime is getting underway what better marriage than Cranial Insertion and Avacyn Restored? Find out what soulbonding adventures await, so grab a nice tall glass of iced demonade!? and read on with this weeks Cranial Insertion!

By Eli Shiffrin (3 Comments)
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(04/30/2012)
If Life Gives You Demons
or, Make Demonade
By Eli Shiffrin
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04/23/2012

Waiting for Avacyn

Still waiting for Avacyn Restored? Want to know what is in the Hellvaults? Well, so do we! In the meantime join us once again in our pre-prerelease article partying with all of the usual rules questions you know and love!

By Carsten Haese (7 Comments)
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(04/23/2012)
Waiting for Avacyn
By Carsten Haese
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12/26/2011

Merry Quizmas!

Quizmas is just past Chanukah is still going strong. Questions abound, maybe even frolic with reindeer, in this special holiday edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Moko (0 Comments)
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(12/26/2011)
Merry Quizmas!
By Moko
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06/06/2011

The Wrath of Karn

or, To boldly go where no monkey has gone before

I'll chase him round the Moons of Mirrodin, and round the Alara Maelstrom, and round Naar Isle's flames before I give him up!

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(06/06/2011)
The Wrath of Karn
or, To boldly go where no monkey has gone before
By Carsten Haese
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05/30/2011

 

(05/30/2011)
Cranial Insertion and the Holy Grail
or, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life's Finale
By Eli Shiffrin
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05/09/2011

All Will Be One

or, Hail Moko, Father of Monkeys

Don't you see how tragic the Phyrexians are? After all, All Will Be One, but One is the loneliest number... I think Phyrexia needs a hug.

By Eli Shiffrin (0 Comments)
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(05/09/2011)
All Will Be One
or, Hail Moko, Father of Monkeys
By Eli Shiffrin
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04/16/2007

 

(04/16/2007)
Tempus Fugit
or, Millennium Hand and Shrimp!
By Eli Shiffrin
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(01/01/2007)
We'll Take a Couple Questions Yet
or, And There's an Answer, My Trusty Fiere
By Eli Shiffrin
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07/31/2006

Questions of Climate Change

By Thijs van Ommen (0 Comments)
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(07/31/2006)
Questions of Climate Change
By Thijs van Ommen
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03/13/2006

Nonnegative Thinking

By Thijs van Ommen (0 Comments)
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(03/13/2006)
Nonnegative Thinking
By Thijs van Ommen
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01/16/2006

My Lips Are Sealed

By Tom Fowler (0 Comments)
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(01/16/2006)
My Lips Are Sealed
By Tom Fowler
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