Battle of the Blocks: Urza’s Block Vs. Mirrodin
The Battle of the Blocks continues! In this week’s edition, Urza’s Block takes on Mirrodin Block in a heads-up fight between two misbehaving culprits full of broken and banned things.
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Is It Time To Get Aggressive?
Valeriy looks at the fine art of beating down as the prime way to overcome the wave of Devotion decks currently dominating the Standard metagame.
Above The Curve #43: Hopelessly Devoted
We’re back on Select this week! Join Glenn, Brad, and Todd for a Grand Prix Louisville wrap-up show featuring a quarter of the Top Eight of that event breaking down the decks and stories.
Brewing A New Standard
AJ looks at some different takes on the Standard metagame rather than call it ‘solved’ by Esper vs. Devotion to X vs. R/G Monsters. Want to play G/W Tokens? How about beating down with Boros?
MTGC13: An Overview
Bennie wants to do nothing more than walk the earth playing with the new 2013 Commander decks, and shares the top reasons why he’s so excited for their upcoming release on November 1st.
Still Devoted To Mono Black
After his Top Eight at Grand Prix Louisville with Mono Black Devotion, Brad breaks down the deck’s key matchups and why you should be playing it this weekend.
BBD Vs. CVM: Mono Black Devotion Vs. BW Midrange
Hot off of his win at GP Louisville, Brian Braun-Duin mashes his first-place Monoblack Devotion deck against Chris VanMeter with B/W Midrange.
The Cult Of Personality
Brian first made a name for himself as “The Dragonmaster,” sticking Armadillo Cloak onto Rith, the Awakener and serving a righteous beating. Now, he measures the benefits and pitfalls of going rogue for its own sake.
Eternal Europe – The Combo Continuum
This week we look at the trade-off between speed and resilience in the face of opposition in Legacy’s combo decks. Is faster always better, or just better when they don’t have a Force of Will?
A PTQ Report, And The Invitational
John has to skip the Invitational, but he has a decklist for what he’d sleeve in the Standard portion. He also looks at how badly a sealed pool can go when you open a Planeswalker… so be careful what you wish for, when you beg Fate for the chance.
What Next?
Mike looks at this past weekend’s results, comparing these seismic metagame shifts to historic past archetypes and trying to project whether we’ll see yet another this weekend at the StarCityGames Invitational in Indianapolis.
Drafting With Reid! THS #1
Join Reid for his first video draftalong with Theros on Magic Online, and learn what he has to teach after mastering the format for Pro Tour Theros in Dublin last week!
Video: Mono Blue Devotion
Hot off of a Pro Tour Top 4 and a Grand Prix Top 8, Sam takes his Mono Blue Devotion deck (with updates for the Invitational!) into battle so you can ride along and learn how to play the deck.
The Kitchen Table: Llawan’s Insane Discount Prices
After building a Commander deck around Aboshan, Cephalid Emperor, Abe couldn’t resist making one commanded by Llawan, Cephalid Empress to go with it!
Bestowing Pauper
This week Alex Ullman talks about the potential he sees in the bestow creatures of Theros in the current Pauper metagame.