Hello everybody and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. I’m your host, Evan Erwin. Today we’re going to take a look at Wizards of the Coast’s own little money maker, Magic Online. I know I’ve spent a fortune on those untouchable digital objects, and there are new players joining every day. But what is there to know about the game online? How does it differ from the delicious paper we know and love?
Hello everybody and welcome to the Magic Show. Today we’re going over my Top Ten Articles of 2006. We’ve seen a lot of good reads go by this year, and this is my list for the best of the best…
Warning! Contains spoilers!
Hello everybody and welcome to The Magic Show. I’m your host, Evan Erwin.
Today we’re going to cover the latter half of 2006, along with the first wave of “The Magic Show Best of StarCityGames.com 2006 Awards.” And I promise none of my silly articles will be involved.
Christmastime is always a happy, fun time in my family, and I hope it is in yours. There are few things as cherished as Christmas. I’m not even Christian but I still put that tree up and I’m excited to watch my girls open presents.
This next little ditty is dedicated to all of my Magic friends (and enemies), and I hope that you enjoyed it as much as I did making it.
Hello everybody, and welcome to the Magic Show. I’m your host, Evan Erwin. Today we’re going to talk about metagames. Just what the hell is a metagame, why should you care, and how is it “formed?”
Hello everybody and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. This week wraps up with the Top 2 match between Justin Perdue and Charles Anderson, playing Fader and Solar Fires respectively.
In a continuation of yesterday’s installment of the video article series The Magic Show, our genial host Evan brings us a Top 4 matchup from the recent StarCityGames.com $1000 Open. The decks on parade? Dragonstorm and Solar Fires.
This week’s installment of The Magic Show – Evan Erwin’s Video-based Magic series – concentrates on the author’s excellent performance at the recent StarCityGames.com $1000 Open Standard tournament. He outlines his deck and shares full video action of an important match…
Predictions are funny things. I tend to predict things when I see patterns: American Idol winners, how drivers act on highways, how someone will take a compliment or a criticism. And in the world of Magic, prediction means finding “the next big thing” — the angle that everyone is either missing or simply leaning towards, and it takes that one big finish to get everyone on board. So let’s peer into the crystal ball, with Worlds looming this weekend, and see what we can see.
For Evan’s seventeeth foray into the realm of Video Magic, he looks at the Vintage format. This is a fine article for those dipping their toes into such broken waters for the first time, and it’ll also serve as an excellent primer for those who are higher up on the Vintage totem-pole…
Another episode of the Magic Show, the popular video article series by Evan Erwin. In his own words…
Today I’m going to talk about Magic Design. Specifically, the Great Designer Search contest going on over at MagictheGathering.com. Now you’ve already seen our own Ben Bleiweiss – a cool cat if there ever was one – take a shot at last week’s “Take Five” Challenge. Today I’m going to cover “Picture This,” where severe design constraints are given and the designer must find a way out of it.
Evan continues his excellent series of video articles with an examination of the various advantages that can be gained through a dedicated deck strategy. There’s card advantage, creature advantage, resource advantage… and if that’s not all, he shares a tricky Time Spiral Sealed pool for us all to play along at home.
Evan took a deck that succeeded at the StarCityGames.com $1500 tournament, and piloted it all the way to the Top 8 of his local Champs! Today he shares the video rundown of his deck-choice, and presents the video of his play from the tournament itself!
Evan Erwin was on-site when the new Solar Pox deck won the StarCityGames.com $1,500 Standard Open – and he got it all on video! Today’s article sees this incredible deck face off against opponents in Round 7, and both the quarter- and semi-finals! Thinking of playing this deck at Champs this weekend, and wanting to learn how to play the deck from first-hand successes? Come look and see!
Evan Erwin was on-site when the new Solar Pox deck won the StarCityGames.com $1,500 Standard Open – and he got it all on video! Watch interviews with Ken Adams, the deck’s creator, as well as a complete video of both games of the finals! You want to see how Solar Pox rebounds from having one of two Haakons Castigated out of the game, then having the rest of his hand Persecuted? Watch and see!
