Ashley Morway has seen multiple PTQ Top 8s and one win and is trying to get back to the Pro Tour with Valakut. Read why she decided on specific, debated card choices and how the deck plays out against a variety of matchups.
What makes the core of Caw-Blade and why is that core so good? Brian Kibler breaks down the deck piece by piece until he finds exactly what makes it tick. And how to beat it.
Hello everybody and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. Today we’re going to talk about Innistrad, Modern and More, along with my ballot for the 2011 class of the Pro Tour Hall of Fame. Let’s go!
Marijn Lybaert is one of the most consistently good players on the Pro Tour. But when things take a down swing, how does he pick himself back up? This article demonstrates the pro mentality to winning and losing.
Plains is where it’s at! Mike Flores will be slamming Sun Titans, Emeria lands, and of course Pilgrim’s Eyes and Jens this weekend. This deck has great inevitability in the form of poison / Emeria / planeswalkers. Try it out.
Patrick Chapin tops off the best deckbuilders of all time with 2 of the most well-respected members of the Magic Pro Tour, two Hall of Famers who continue to do amazing work on the Tour today. Read this epic conclusion to this brilliant series.
The MOCS and the Pittsburgh Legacy Open made for two major Legacy tournaments this past weekend; Reid Duke did not succeed with NO RUG, but look at what did!
Sean Ryan faced three Hive Mind decks in a row in the Top 8 of SCG Open: Seattle, losing in the finals to Ben Swartz. NO RUG took him pretty far however; it could be a solid choice for the upcoming Richmond Open.
Tim Landale made two Top 8s with Valakut recently and has a few stories from you from his travels through the Northeast. If you’re looking for a solid Valakut deck for this weekend or SCG Open: Richmond, you’ve come to the right place.
Valeriy gives you one of the first looks at Extended since M12, the format for the upcoming Pro Tour in Philadelphia. He also provides insight into how to approach new formats such as this and where to begin testing.
This week, Joey and Bigheadjoe are joined by the big winner of the weekend, Gerry Thompson, to discuss his historic back-to-back wins at SCG Pittsburgh!
Legacy is not an easy format to plan for given its numerous viable deck choices. Carsten helps you by outlining the general strategies that form the baselines for Legacy, the limiting factors of the format, if you will.
Gerry Thompson made StarCityGames.com Open Series history this past weekend, taking both the Standard and Legacy Open trophies home from Pittsburgh. Read about the decks that got him to the finish line twice in a row.
“I tried to like New Phyrexia.” John Dale Beety explains just why New Phyrexia did not click with him and many others. Yet by what Wizards set out to do, New Phyrexia was a resounding success…
People have called Gravitational Shift in Caw-Blade “too cute,” but Jonathan Sukenik, or Watchwolf92 on MTGO, wants to prove you wrong! He’s played Shift in the last 3 events he’s attended and made Top 8 in Pittsburgh.
