Gianluca Aicardi

Name: Gianluca "Kumagoro" Aicardi
Preferred Format: Modern, Commander, Legacy Tribal Wars, Limited

About:

"I hail from Genoa, Italy.

"When I don't write about Magic, I write about film and television. In general, I write a lot.

"When I play Magic, I usually play something with green in it. I don't know why I like green so much, I'm not even so concerned about the environment—though I'm concerned enough.

"When I don't play Magic, I play things like X-Wing or Zombicide. But mostly I watch films and TV shows.

"When I do things I don't like to do as much as playing games and watching films, I'm a freelance translator, editor, and proofreader. I also worked as head of programming for a couple film festivals.

"I might have some mild OCD."

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Movie Magic: 22 Card Names That Are Film Titles

Gianluca Aicardi | 2022-06-15

Most Magic cards have names that reference places or people within the Multiverse. Those that don't, however, sometimes evoke something from the real world. And at times that happens to coincide, whether on purpose or not, with the title of a famous motion picture. Meet a few examples of this kind of movie magic!

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Daily Deck Tech from Capenna: Industrial Ramp

Gianluca Aicardi | 2022-05-04

Every workday while the Streets of Capenna are new, Insight takes a quick look at another deck featuring the fresh cards! There's a new Titan in town, and it's ready to storm the festival and butt heads for some veritable Rhino-plasty. Amid the multicolor mayhem, monogreen still succeeds in Standard!

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Daily Dynasty Deck Tech: Anvil Action

Gianluca Aicardi | 2022-02-16

Every workday while the set is new, Insight is taking a quick look at another deck featuring cards from Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty. Today we look at a major addition to Pioneer, forged on the anvil of the Oni Cult. Let's make Blood (and other) sacrifices—for pain and gain and Constructs!

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Daily Dynasty Deck Tech: Enchanté

Gianluca Aicardi | 2022-02-13

Every workday while the set is new, Insight is taking a quick look at another deck featuring cards from Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty. Sometimes a set gives birth to a fresh Standard archetype through the combination of old and new material. Other times a functional deck comes pretty much prepackaged within the set's bounds.

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Daily Dynasty Deck Tech: Monogreen Modifications

Gianluca Aicardi | 2022-02-10

Every workday throughout the preview season for Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty, Insight is taking a quick look at another deck featuring cards from the upcoming set. Monogreen Aggro has been one of the top decks in Standard continuously since rotation, enjoying the odd modification already. And now it's a theme!

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Daily Dynasty Deck Tech: Tamiyo's Plot Twist

Gianluca Aicardi | 2022-02-07

Every workday throughout the preview season for Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty, Insight is taking a quick look at another deck featuring cards from the upcoming set. Tragedy struck! Beloved moon bunny storyteller Tamiyo was captured by those meddling Phyrexians, and now she's the first compleated planeswalker.

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Fifteen Times Green Was the Best at Card Draw

Gianluca Aicardi | 2022-01-03

Everyone knows drawing more cards than the opponent is one path to victory. Also common knowledge: blue has the best tools for the job. What color comes next is more debatable. Are you ready to embrace green as the card-drawing runner-up to blue? Because green was ready for that designation since 1993.

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The Troubles with Alchemy

Gianluca Aicardi | 2021-12-13

On December 9, a brand-new digital-only format has debuted on MTG Arena. Its name is Alchemy and its very existence and nature give birth to a series of implications that could affect the entire game—key among them an increasingly sharper separation between the traditional play modes and "the Arena way."

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Standard Brewing Between Slugs & Slime

Gianluca Aicardi | 2021-11-29

There is slime on Innistrad. Some of it corrodes you to death; some of it engulfs you so thoroughly you can't even remember who you are anymore. Are these two kinds of ghastly mucus good for each other? Let's find out what kind of viscous reaction we can get when we go on a smear campaign!

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