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01/22/2024

Mean Ghouls

We're hitching a ride with the apex predator and making fetch happen in this week's grool episode of Cranial Insertion!

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(01/22/2024)
Mean Ghouls
By Carsten Haese
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03/21/2022

Equiznox 4: Kamigawa Drift

Spring is here, and it's time to take stock of what you have learned. Fasten your seatbelts and join us in this week's quizzical episode of Cranial Insertion!

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(03/21/2022)
Equiznox 4: Kamigawa Drift
By Carsten Haese
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03/29/2021

Moko's Sweet Sixteen

This article has spent sixteen years in the making! It is the CI anniversary article, and we have jam packed this edition with all of the answers to those pesky rules questions you have! So join us as we get our party hats on and celebrate in this exciting edition of Cranial Insertion! Now with more balloons!

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(03/29/2021)
Moko's Sweet Sixteen
By Carsten Haese
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02/15/2021

Puns N' Roses

We got fun and games! This week we as we ride the night train we have put together one of our famous quiz articles that will tease and test your knowledge of those tricky rules interactions you have been so thoroughly trying to work out! So join us in this week's exciting edition of Cranial Insertion! Tell me who you are gonna believe!

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(02/15/2021)
Puns N' Roses
By Carsten Haese
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11/25/2019

Oko no Moko

Oko is banned in standard! Read all about it in this week’s exciting edition of Cranial insertion!

By Andrew Villarrubia (3 Comments)
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(11/25/2019)
Oko no Moko
By Andrew Villarrubia
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08/19/2019

Back to School, 4th Edition

Now with a Brand-New Foreword

Summer is coming to a close and that can mean only one thing, School is starting again! So to celebrate we are breaking out all the higher learning we have and sharing that with you! So join us for this week's educational edition of Cranial Insertion! Now with fewer textbooks!

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(08/19/2019)
Back to School, 4th Edition
Now with a Brand-New Foreword
By Carsten Haese
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06/17/2019

I'm Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot

Things are heating up here in the CI offices and while we try to cool off with we take a moment to respond to some of those rules questions you have sent us. They also make great paper fans after we have printed them out! So join us for this week's heated edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Andrew Villarrubia (0 Comments)
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(06/17/2019)
I'm Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot
By Andrew Villarrubia
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04/15/2019

Endings and Beginnings

We are proud to continue the tradition of answering your rules questions! So this article marks a new beginning for us here at the CI offices a new writer! So join us this week for another high quality romp through our inboxes, and let us all say welcome to Andrew!

By Andrew Villarrubia (0 Comments)
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(04/15/2019)
Endings and Beginnings
By Andrew Villarrubia
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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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02/17/2014

The Gods Must (Still) Be Crazy

Getting crazy here in the Cranial Insertion offices, with these rules questions. Our coverage of Born of the Gods continues this week, while Moko goes to town! Join us for this weeks exciting edition!

By James Bennett (2 Comments)
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(02/17/2014)
The Gods Must (Still) Be Crazy
By James Bennett
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07/08/2013

Starred and Spangled

Celebrating the passing of the day of independence of the U.S. with a super special Boros, Azorius, and Izzet article! What is that... we are still covering all the guilds? Anyway, join us for this weeks edition of Cranial Insertion!

By James Bennett (4 Comments)
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(07/08/2013)
Starred and Spangled
By James Bennett
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08/27/2012

Around the World in Three Days

Join us as we travel the world. In the wake of the Magic World Cup, James takes us on a journey of rules questions!

By Carsten Haese (2 Comments)
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(08/27/2012)
Around the World in Three Days
By Carsten Haese
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03/19/2012

The Oxidda Loxodon Mox Paradox

or, X Marks the Spot

It's time to lock up the house and turn out the lights, but not before we cross some mountainous elephants!

By Eli Shiffrin (8 Comments)
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(03/19/2012)
The Oxidda Loxodon Mox Paradox
or, X Marks the Spot
By Eli Shiffrin
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02/13/2012

Monday the 13th

Unlucky Monday the 13th? This weeks article features heartfelt rules questions, in this our Valentine edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Brian Paskoff (0 Comments)
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(02/13/2012)
Monday the 13th
By Brian Paskoff
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12/12/2011

Forty Candles

One Year Older, One Year Wiser?

Join us as we break out our candelabras (of Tawnos) and celebrate another year with Carsten on this eve of his birthday! Oh, yeah and lets not forget more rules question fun than any of us can handle, in yet another exciting pre-holiday edition of Cranial Insertion!

By Carsten Haese (0 Comments)
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(12/12/2011)
Forty Candles
One Year Older, One Year Wiser?
By Carsten Haese
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04/04/2011

@CranialTweet #RulesQuestions #WarpWorld

I know the term for a single twitter post is a 'tweet,' but I very much wish they'd gone with a stronger bird noise, like 'quack.' No, I don't have a point. Quack.

By Brian Paskoff (0 Comments)
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(04/04/2011)
@CranialTweet #RulesQuestions #WarpWorld
By Brian Paskoff
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02/28/2011

Survival of the Fittest

Get your pencils and paper ready.

By Moko (0 Comments)
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(02/28/2011)
Survival of the Fittest
By Moko
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(12/20/2010)
Santa's Hidden Information Violation
or, The DCI's Most Awkward Disqualification
By Eli Shiffrin
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(07/26/2010)
I Visited Bant
...and all I got was this crummy Emblem
By Brian Paskoff
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07/07/2008

Fireworks Elemental

By Tom Fowler (0 Comments)
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(07/07/2008)
Fireworks Elemental
By Tom Fowler
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(06/16/2008)
Answering Spree
or, You Can Never Have Enough Questions
By Eli Shiffrin
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(04/14/2008)
How To Flip The National Debt In Pennies
And Other Knowledge You Will Never Put To Practical Use
By Diane Colley
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03/10/2008

The Logical Song

By Tom Fowler (0 Comments)
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(03/10/2008)
The Logical Song
By Tom Fowler
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(02/18/2008)
Always Avoid Affected Alliteration
or, Eschew Obfuscation
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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(08/20/2007)
Time Colander
or, There Sure Are a Lot of Magic Events This Summer
By Eli Shiffrin
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07/02/2007

Enchant Dead Creature

By Tom Fowler (0 Comments)
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(07/02/2007)
Enchant Dead Creature
By Tom Fowler
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05/21/2007

Three Spheres for Sister Sara

By Tom Fowler (0 Comments)
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(05/21/2007)
Three Spheres for Sister Sara
By Tom Fowler
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(05/07/2007)
The More Things Change
or, The More Monkeys Stay the Same
By Eli Shiffrin
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