Spirits In Hawaii
Sam Black’s Esper Spirits deck broke PT Dark Ascension. He goes over the testing process, and all the decks he considered playing. Consider playing Esper Spirits at StarCityGames.com Open: Memphis this weekend.
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Planeswalker Power
Control master Shaheen Soorani is back with tuned decklist for Planeswalker Control in Standard just in time for Grand Prix Baltimore and StarCityGames.com: Memphis. He also includes a spicy brew for the Modern PTQ season.
Eleven Straight
Adam Prosak won StarCityGames.com Legacy Open in Cincinnati with a surprising deck choice. Learn how the he broke his pact to always play Brainstorm and came around to successfully pilot Dredge.
Delving For Secrets: How To Improve Your Results
Lauren Nolen recently won the StarCityGames.com Standard Open in Cincinnati with U/W Delver. He gives insight into how he prepared for the tournament and what you can do to improve your own performance on the Open Series.
Humans In Honolulu
What was the most played deck at Pro Tour Dark Ascension? Humans! Marijn Lybaert goes over why he chose to go with the masses and details a sideboard plan for SCG Open: Memphis this weekend.
Are Spirits, Black Aggro, And Pod The 3 Best Decks In Standard?
What are currently the best decks in Standard? Patrick Chapin finds out by analyzing the results from Pro Tour Dark Ascension and StarCityGames.com Open: Charlotte in his 300th article.
Dear Azami – Child’s Play
Sean McKeown restructures a five-color Commander deck centered on only the most powerful spells. If you’re a fan of playing all the colors, this deck is for you!
Dungroving In Honolulu
Todd Anderson got 17th place at Pro Tour Dark Ascension with his Mono-Green Aggro deck! Find out how his Dungrove Elders and Bellowing Tanglewurms did, along with an updated decklist!
The Colors Of Pauper: Green
The color green wraps up Alex Ullman’s Pauper series. With its low-cost yet effective creatures, green is the perfect color if one wants to sling the beats in Pauper.
Dark Ascension In Commander
What did Commander gain from Dark Ascension? Bennie Smith goes color-by-color through the best cards Dark Ascension has to offer Commander decks.
The Standard Metagame For Charlotte
Brad Nelson’s back from Hawaii. He discusses the big decks to come out of Pro Tour Dark Ascension and recommends U/B Control for this weekend. Against Ramp and Spirits, could U/B Control be the perfect counter?
Huntmaster Of Honolulu: Part One
The Dragonmaster has become the Huntmaster. Brian Kibler writes about everything that led up to his Pro Tour win last weekend, the foreshadowing before the big event. Read how he prepared for Dark Ascension Standard.
My First Draft Open
If you’ve never played in a Draft Open before—or any competitive draft—Matt Higgs takes you through his first experience and what to expect. He ended up making 4th place! Try your luck at the Charlotte Draft Open this weekend
Numbers
There are many roads to the Pro Tour—but statistically, which of these players tend to do the best? Is it the Hall of Famers? The GP grinders? How did the Planeswalker Points crew do overall? Mike Flores crunches the numbers.
Unusual Directions
Do you want to play the game and see the world? Valeriy Shunkov tells you how to do both with Birthing Pod, Mono-Black, and Heartless Summoning in Standard and upcoming Grand Prix Moscow this autumn. Prepare for the Standard Open this weekend in Charlotte!