AuthorSean McKeown

Future Sight is finally here, and ready to shake up everything from the obvious (Draft!) to the unexpected (Vintage!) in one fell swoop. While it’s true that most players will not encounter TS-PC-FS Draft as a pressing format until a PTQ season uses it… most pairs of players will find it immediately relevant. So today we’ll have a quick look at Individual Limited with Future Sight, and a peek at what Future Sight cards are especially interesting in Doubles play.

Sean’s previous attempt to take a sledgehammer to Time Spiral Block Constructed involved pairing that perennial nuisance Teferi with the shambling behemoth Spectral Force. Today’s offering brings a little more finesse… actually, that’s a lie. This Block deck is Big, Green/White, and has a face that only Flores could love. However, is it strong enough to kick seven bells out of the prospective Yokohama metagame?

This week, we’ll be looking at two different formats from two different perspectives, following up on the first-person experiences I’ve had so far with Block Constructed leading up to the Pro Tour in Yokohama in a few weeks, and having a look at the recent Standard-format Grand Prix as a “first look” at post-Planar Chaos Standard.

Sean shells out fifty dollars on a string of zeroes and ones, and pilots his mid-range block aggro deck through a field of eight-man Magic Online Constructed queues. With Time Spiral Block Constructed looking to be a varied and interesting format, it’s now the perfect time to get a leg up on the opposition!

In recent months, playtesting for Magic has become more and more difficult — moving in with a fiancee was one part of it, and moving an extra hour away from my would-be playtest partners was another. Faced with these conditions, there’s only one sane thing to do…

Quit? We seem to have differing views of sanity. Why, I moved online!

With the Two-Headed Giant States championships occurring this weekend, Sean takes a timely look at the format. He shares a typical Two-Headed Giant cardpool, and walks us through his deck decisions and card choices. The format is new, especially with the 30-life rule, and we all need every little edge we can get. All this, plus a bonus article from a Two-Headed Column, Jason Hall!

Magic, when played between two people, is probably the best game in the World. When played between four consenting adults, is it a case of double your pleasure, double your fun? With the Two-Headed Giant Champs mere weeks away, Sean takes a timely look at a sample cardpool, and builds a pair of strong decks with the sweetmeats therein.

With the change to a weekly column with a few floating columns, it seems the five-part set review on StarCityGames.com has finally gone the way of “My Fires.” Instead of one series in five parts, naming each and every single card, I’m going to supply one article breaking down the potential I see across a variety of formats, some of which I may arguably be unqualified to speak upon. That said, let’s get this done in reverse-order fashion, starting with the format in which I have the least experience (Vintage) and crawling back up to Standard, where things make sense to me again.

With the prerelease of Planar Chaos tomorrow, figuring out what is going to be what with Time Spiral — Planar Chaos Limited is something everyone is already chomping at the bit to do. Time Spiral was an enormous puzzle, an enigma of unknown quantities prior to its release… and following hot on its heels is an enigma wrapped around a riddle stuffed inside a booster pack, because Time Spiral showed that there were no sacred cows and anything could happen… and what happens when you crank that up a notch? Chaos!