After last week’s Battle Royale articles went live, the forums were convinced that Sean was doomed to failure in three swift games. While he didn’t quite take down the mighty Jeroen, he certainly didn’t disappoint in the entertainment stakes…
Having looked almost exclusively at Limited for the past month, Sean turns his analytical eye towards the Standard metagame. He posits an excellent, logical process for determining what cards will be strong in the new format, and presents a number of interesting decklists to test and tweak.
Sean takes his Battle Royale Championship Belt into the ring once more, pitting his wits against Jeoren Remie. What savage tech does he bring to the Battle this week? Read on to find out!
Sean takes a closer look at Time Spiral Sealed Deck, sharing a cardpool and taking us through his thought processes while analysing his deckbuilding options. He also spreads a bit of Constructed lovin’ for one of the lesser luminaries of the new set… Flagstones of Troikar.
Sean rolled up his sleeves and looked ready for the fight. Billy actually turned up this time. So, how did it go? Read on to find out!
Sean takes us through the strategies to expect at this weekend’s Time Spiral prerelease event, and provides a number of helpful tips for those getting funky with time, a la Marty McFly circa 1985…
This week’s Battle Royale sees Sean McKeown pumped and ready for action. This comprehensive article introduces his interesting base-Green deck, and documents the lengthy process undergone to obtain the cards. You can’t doubt the prices of the cards in his deck – Sean has the receipts for each one.
In preparation for the New Dawn of Limited Play, Sean takes us through some fundamental attacking scenarios. With practical examples, he examines the likely effect of Flanking, Morph, and Suspend. Looking for an edge when Time Spiral hits the streets? Then this is the article for you!
Sean investigates Time Spiral, with the aid of the Orb of Insight, and predicts what trends the coming set will introduce for Limited play. Can the information revealed thus far serve as a sufficient barometer to predict the overall style we can expect to see played out? Sean reveals all…
Having peeked last week at Coldsnap in Standard, the results of the Japanese National Championships is pretty exciting. After discussing the use of Scrying Sheets, Counterbalance, and Phyrexian Ironfoot in Standard, just a day or two later we see all three in the Top 8 of the Japanese National Championships! In addition to these, we also got to see a few other trends advance themselves… some with Coldsnap cards, some without.
After a week’s quick foray into the world of “issues and opinions,” exploring the nebulous “right and wrong” behind voting for Mike Long for the Hall of Fame, we’re back to the grindstone of tournament Magic just in time for the addition of Coldsnap to Standard.
In a break from the norm, Sean turns his back on detailed analysis of tournament Magic to discuss his highly charged and personal views on the recent voting for the Magic Hall of Fame. As usual, the furor centers around a certain Mike Long… Do you agree with Sean’s opinion?
With Coldsnap entering the Constructed cardpool in a matter of days, Sean looks at a possible upgrade to the popular (and intricate) Heartbeat Combo deck. Into the North? Scrying Sheets? Does it add anything to this already-powerful deck? Read on to find out!
With the first of possibly several “Magic Weekends” behind us, the U.S. National Championships, Italian National Championships, and English National Championships are all in the books, and in at least two of the three cases we have enough information to work with…
Having myself fallen one round short of the joy of drafting Coldsnap, it is left to the two Grand Prix tournaments from last weekend to illumine us as to what is actually going on with the Limited formats that we will be seeing as key highlights this weekend at various National Championships…
