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first week of previews for Dragon's Maze is coming to an end,
but don't fret—we have plenty of new cards that will be revealed
today, and plenty more through the next week. Dragon's Maze is a
dense expansion, and with cards from all ten guilds, there is a
lot for players to do. Magic is very much about bringing new
cards and ideas to the players—it's the reason every player I've
ever met loves preview season. Magic expansions keep every
environment's metagame fresh by constantly supplying established
decks something else that players might want to include and
putting out powerful cards that encourage new decks to emerge,
ensuring that things never get stale.  Art by Winona Nelson
Metagames are like living puzzles that try to solve themselves.
The decks in a metagame will never be perfectly balanced, and
I'd argue they are more interesting when they aren't. Within the
first week of a set's release, the playerbase as a whole will
have put far mor