Let’s Spoil Ourselves: A Wanderer Emerges
Michael takes Yisan, the Wandering Bard out on a test-drive, putting different builds through their paces to see if Yisan has the potential to be the centerpiece of a (good) new deck.
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Magic 2015 In Modern
Sam pores over the Magic 2015 cards spoiled so far and examines them from a Modern perspective, looking for new role-players that will impact the format or any cards that might be powerful enough to bring a new deck to the forefront.
Video: U/W Control In Standard
Shaun really appreciates the position U/W Control fills in the Standard metagame, and loves casting Sphinx’s Revelation as his effective kill card. Check out his build in time for #SCGWOR this weekend!
The Gangreen Gang
Todd looks at the powerful new green cards being added to Standard in Magic 2015, and starts brewing new decks based on previous builds he’s had a lot of success with.
Modern Overview: Summer 2014
With PTQ season heavily upon us, Ari takes a look at the current Modern format and breaks down the top archetypes: why to play them, how to beat them, and what they’re best against.
Daily Financial Value Of Magic 2015 (7/1)
Week two of previews continues to impress, check out Magic finance guru Ben Bleiweiss’s Daily Financial Value Of Magic 2015 article as the legendary five-color Sliver was just previewed!
MTGO Vintage
With the Power Nine now legal on MTGO, Brian checks in on the digital metagame’s development in search of sweet tech and with an eye out for developing metagame trends and cycles.
Video: Drafting Vintage Masters With Brian!
The Dragonmaster takes on the most intricate non-Cube draft format there is on Magic Online, cracking the Vintage Masters packs for his first draft in pursuit of Power Nine and 3-0 draft decks!
Moral Vorel
David steps in to cover for Cassidy after his departure, and takes the opportunity to work on a complicated, interesting Simic deck with Vorel of the Hull Clade at the helm.
Video: Disciple Combo
Join Drew in this Legacy video exploring his exploratory Disciple of Deceit combo(s) deck, fresh off of a critical re-tune and ready to take on all comers… maybe even for #SCGWOR!
Video: G/B Devotion
Gerry takes his G/b Devotion deck from the Invitational out for a test run (with updates!) in these Standard videos, favoring the green cards over the black ones as he tries to break out of the seemingly-narrow pen that is the current metagame.
The Grand Prix Experience
What goes into making a Grand Prix successful? What makes one a failure instead? Glenn looks behind the judge’s and TO’s curtain to see what makes a Grand Prix happen at all, and what kinds of stresses an event can come under.
The End Of The Road
In his final column (at least for the foreseeable future), Mark has some big-picture lessons he’d like to impart about what it means to play Magic and how we, as a community, are so very interconnected.
Strength From The Fallen
Matt instantly fell in love with Strength from the Fallen the moment he saw it, even though he thought it was just a Lhurgoyf Aura. He has a few experimental builds to find the card a home, from a straightforward beatdown deck to a highly-convoluted control deck.
The Kitchen Table: Commanding Jalira
Abe takes a new legendary creature from Magic 2015 out for a spin, trying out Jalira, Master Polymorphist in a quirky, fun Commander deck centered on taking other people’s stuff and Polymorphing it into something of your own!