Jim Ziegler

All good necromancers know that the graveyard is a valuable resource, and Magic: The Gathering features several mechanics to make sure that Black-aligned mages have plenty of ways to dig up the good stuff. And one of those ways is Threshold. Threshold can be a particularly useful ability, because it allows you to benefit from a full graveyard without using anything buried in it.

One of the traits that makes monsters, from shambling zombies to Jason Voorhees, so terrifying is that they never seem to die. Bullets barely make them blink, and even when they're dead and buried they seem to keep coming back. These monsters aren't just undead: they're undying. There are a lot of ways to bring creatures back from the graveyard in Magic: The Gathering, and the Undying ability is one of the easiest ones to take advantage of.

Few images are as evocative of magic as a wizard or fortune teller gazing into a crystal ball. It seems like every magician from the Wicked Witch to Harry Potter has spent time staring into a cloudy ball of quartz, divining the future, but it isn't the only method: Bones, tea leaves, pools of water, and magic mirrors all work just as well.