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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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05/15/2023

Small Set, Big Questions

March of the Machine: The Aftermath is out now, and although it's a very, very small set, it's causing a lot of questions. Join us as we look at a few of those questions in this week's exciting issue of Cranial Insertion!

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(05/15/2023)
Small Set, Big Questions
By Carsten Haese
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07/18/2022

Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions

Modern season is upon us and we want you to be prepared, so this week's issue is the very model of a Modern rules Q&A article!

By Justin Hovdenes (0 Comments)
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(07/18/2022)
Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions
By Justin Hovdenes
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01/24/2022

Chilling Out

The weather is cooling off, but thanks to your burning rules questions, it's nice and toasty inside the Cranial Insertion offices. Grab a hot beverage and join us for this week's relaxing edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(01/24/2022)
Chilling Out
By Carsten Haese
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12/20/2021

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like... Wait, what, it's December?

Holiday cheer is spreading around the office, and Moko is chomping at the bit to do some redecorating for the season. Despite us trying to reign in Moko's holiday cheer, the fountains of bleeding skulls were a bit much for us, we still had enough cheer left in us to put out yet another article chock full of answers to those pesky rules questions burning in holiday lists! So read on in this week's festive edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Andrew Villarrubia (0 Comments)
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(12/20/2021)
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like... Wait, what, it's December?
By Andrew Villarrubia
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09/28/2020

Making Landfall

Zendikar Rising has hit the shelves! So with that we have cracked open our mailboxes and pulled out those questions that have floated over our way! Putting together that flood of questions that come with a new set is always a challenge, that we take on every time! So read on in this week's exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Nathan Long (0 Comments)
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(09/28/2020)
Making Landfall
By Nathan Long
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05/27/2019

Cranial Insertion's Memorial Day Sale

As we take some time to remember the fallen here in the US we also take some time to hit the shops and to build up our supplies to continue the fight! So read on as we answer all of those stubborn rules questions in this week's exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(05/27/2019)
Cranial Insertion's Memorial Day Sale
By Carsten Haese
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03/11/2019

Come Up to the Lab and See What's on the Slab

Welcome, welcome! Please do come right in, be sure to have filled out your Form A-35, Schedule C, as well as all the required NDA paperwork. Once inside we can discuss all of the work that Moko and the others have been so diligently working on recently! No, no, do not mind all that fine print on the paperwork it is nothing just some stuff our lawyers required is all! Do please, read on in this week's experimental edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Charlotte Sable (0 Comments)
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(03/11/2019)
Come Up to the Lab and See What's on the Slab
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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08/31/2015

PAX Magica

A magical peace has decended upon the world of Magic. We are getting ready for spoilers from Battle for Zendikar as we do so once again we provide you with all the answers to your questions in order to quell your tumultuous wonder. So join us for this week spellbinding edition of Cranial Insertion!

By James Bennett (0 Comments)
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(08/31/2015)
PAX Magica
By James Bennett
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06/08/2015

Bigger Than Ever

Fresh off the biggest weekend of Magic ever, we bring to you some of the hottest rules questions and answers! You asked them and we answered, so join us for this weeks Modern-tastic edition of Cranial Insertion!

By James Bennett (2 Comments)
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(06/08/2015)
Bigger Than Ever
By James Bennett
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05/11/2015

Call me, May bee?

It is may and it might just be an exciting time in Magic the Gathering with Dragons possibly out and in full force and Modern Masters on the horizon. Well lets just see what could be in our mail bag from our readers and answer some of those exciting rules questions! So join us for this weeks potentially excessively exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

By James Bennett (8 Comments)
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(05/11/2015)
Call me, May bee?
By James Bennett
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12/29/2014

Bouncing off the Walls

or, They Are No Longer Decked

With Christmas completed we are still cleaning up the mess Moko made under the tree, bad Moko. The gifts at the Cranial Insertion offices just keep on giving so we reciprocate in kind in answering your rules questions! So join us for this weeks exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Moko (4 Comments)
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(12/29/2014)
Bouncing off the Walls
or, They Are No Longer Decked
By Moko
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09/29/2014

Khan't Stop Me Now

Khans of Tarkir is here and so are the questions! You have been inundating our offices with your questions, and we are so very excited! This week we take a moment to stop morphing and raid our stack, as we try to outlast all of these rules questions to answer them with ferocious clarity! So lets delve into this weeks exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

By James Bennett (3 Comments)
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(09/29/2014)
Khan't Stop Me Now
By James Bennett
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06/02/2014

Summertime

and the rulings are easy!

James is back and summer is right around the corner. Join us as we serve up a heap of rules questions and answers. Though we are not yet ready to hang at the Pleateau. Read on for this weeks edition of Cranial Insertion!

By James Bennett (2 Comments)
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(06/02/2014)
Summertime
and the rulings are easy!
By James Bennett
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06/10/2013

Breaking the Mold

Creeping or oozing molds always find a way to keep growing. Just like our question and answer repitiore! Join us for some not so old questions in this weeks edition of Cranial Insertion!

By James Bennett (5 Comments)
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(06/10/2013)
Breaking the Mold
By James Bennett
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05/20/2013

Happy Returns

or, Live from New England

He is back!!! Okay, well technically he never left, but lets give it up for Eli as he takes us through this weeks rules questions. So read on with this weeks exciting edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Eli Shiffrin (1 Comment)
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(05/20/2013)
Happy Returns
or, Live from New England
By Eli Shiffrin
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12/17/2012

The Museum of Modern Card Interactions

Hey, everyone it is that time again! Time for this weeks edition of Cranial Insertion. Join Carsten this week for some Modern musings!

By Carsten Haese (1 Comment)
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(12/17/2012)
The Museum of Modern Card Interactions
By Carsten Haese
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(09/03/2012)
Realms... Charted?
By James Bennett
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(08/20/2012)
We Will Be Heroes
or, Yes, Hero of Bladehold Gets Exalted
By Eli Shiffrin
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08/06/2012

Summer Games

Welcome back to the Olympic Games, and this time we take you to the Magic Triathlon, this event consists of... wait, that is not a real event. Okay back to you Carsten with this weeks Cranial Insertion!

By Carsten Haese (4 Comments)
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(08/06/2012)
Summer Games
By Carsten Haese
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02/27/2012

Announcing Announcements

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(02/27/2012)
Announcing Announcements
By Carsten Haese
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02/06/2012

Undying Questions

or, Decreasing Confusion

Little-known fact: Increasing Confusion's art was based off of our inbox. Moko is down there somewhere.

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(02/06/2012)
Undying Questions
or, Decreasing Confusion
By Carsten Haese
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01/30/2012

Bad Moon on the Rise

or, One Eye is Taken for Jar of Eyeballs

What is that noise I hear!?! Oh, it is just some CCR playing while Eli answers some scary rules questions! Join us in this for this weeks edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Eli Shiffrin (0 Comments)
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(01/30/2012)
Bad Moon on the Rise
or, One Eye is Taken for Jar of Eyeballs
By Eli Shiffrin
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11/21/2011

It's the end of Worlds as we know it

(And I feel fine)

Moving on to a new year of Magic, which has several start points to its years!

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(11/21/2011)
It's the end of Worlds as we know it
(And I feel fine)
By Carsten Haese
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11/07/2011

Remember, Remember

or, The Seventh of November Is Not Interesting

Nothing going on here, just another bunch of miss-coordinated stunts and may-haps a bunch of pithy responses to some really good rules questions! Be sure to read the latest issue of Cranial Insertion to spice up your Monday!

By Eli Shiffrin (0 Comments)
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(11/07/2011)
Remember, Remember
or, The Seventh of November Is Not Interesting
By Eli Shiffrin
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10/24/2011

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!

By Brian Paskoff (0 Comments)
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(10/24/2011)
All Hallow's Eve... Eve
By Brian Paskoff
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09/19/2011

Goodbye, Zendikar!

And fareweldrazi, too!

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(09/19/2011)
Goodbye, Zendikar!
By Carsten Haese
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08/22/2011

Question-Walk

or, All the Cool Kids Are Doing It

If a creature has landwalk and haste, could we say it has landrun?

By Eli Shiffrin (0 Comments)
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(08/22/2011)
Question-Walk
or, All the Cool Kids Are Doing It
By Eli Shiffrin
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05/16/2011

Mirrodin Pure Evil

or, Rotten to the Core

You see what we did there? With the title?

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(05/16/2011)
Mirrodin Pure Evil
or, Rotten to the Core
By Carsten Haese
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04/18/2011

Frequently Asked Questions

and some infrequently asked questions, too

Not including frequently asked questions that are just meant to antagonize judges. Stop acting like banding is confusing or something!

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(04/18/2011)
Frequently Asked Questions
and some infrequently asked questions, too
By Carsten Haese
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03/07/2011

Back to Reality

or, No more monkeying around!

But if you have your back to reality, what are you facing?

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(03/07/2011)
Back to Reality
or, No more monkeying around!
By Carsten Haese
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01/31/2011

Mirrodin Bee Sieged

or, Bzz Bzzzz Bz Bzz Bzzz

Not the bees! No! Noaaaagha!

By Eli Shiffrin (0 Comments)
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(01/31/2011)
Mirrodin Bee Sieged
or, Bzz Bzzzz Bz Bzz Bzzz
By Eli Shiffrin
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