Monday, November 16th – Patrick Chapin takes a break from making Day 2 at Grand Prix: Minneapolis to bring us a mid-tournament status report. He shares his cardpool from the event before showing us his final build, and then turns his eye to Magic Online, with some interesting statistics from triple Zendikar draft…
Friday, November 13th – It’s an M10 draft. You’re solidly in Red-Blue with goodies like Air Elemental, Mind Control, Shivan Dragon, and Goblin Artillery, plus solid commons to give you around fifteen playables. Booster three comes along and, whoa baby, there she is, Baneslayer Angel in all her glory. What do you do?
Friday, November 13th – Last weekend was one that this Green mage was very happy about. While I enjoyed personal success with a deck built around one of the coolest Green cards to be printed in some time, that FNM moment paled in comparison to the gigantic splash Kali and Todd Anderson made at the StarCityGames.com $5000 Standard Open in Nashville on Saturday…
Friday, November 13th – Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. This week we talk with Nashville $5K winner (and fellow author Todd Anderson’s lovely wife) Kali Anderson about Eldrazi Green, marriage and playing Magic, and how it felt to win the $5K. All that, plus the Top 8 mirror match between the married couple, the Eldrazi Green versus G/W Eldrazi Top 4 match, and more! Let’s go!
Friday, November 13th – Hall of Famer Olivier Ruel takes us through an 8-4 draft queue on Magic Online. He shares some comprehensive thoughts about both the picks and the games, and talks us through each step of the way! If you’re looking to improve your Limited game, this is the article series for you!
Friday, November 13th – The Sealed Deck PTQ season continues apace, both online and off, and Adrian Sullivan has some sage advice for those hunting the Blue Envelope. Today, he shares his experience with the format, and looks over Cedric’s awful PTQ cardpool from last week…
Friday, November 13th – Conventional wisdom dictates that your performance in sideboarded games is twice as important as your performance in the pre-sideboard variety. Even so, practicing with your sideboard is often overlooked. Today, Brian Kibler shows us why we should pay special attention to games 2 and 3, and presents some handy tips to make the most of our precious fifteen…
Friday, November 13th – Sealed Deck in Zendikar play is proving to be a tricky beast to crack. In today’s Reflecting Ruel, Olivier offers some sage advice on Sealed Deck in general, paying close attention to the current format. Will his words of wisdom be enough to speed you to the top of the PTQ pile? Read on to find out!
Thursday, November 12th – Last week, I traveled to Renton to meet up with the Online Team and go head to head with the Wizards themselves. I knocked off Mark Rosewater, Mike Turian and Erik Lauer – and the team pulled out the win. Fourteen rounds, President Obama, and the Miracle of the Multi-ball – all in this classic tournament report!
Thursday, November 12th – Magic is a game filled with thousands of individual cards. Each is unique in its own way, and each is good at doing particular jobs. Serra Angel attacks and blocks. Lightning Bolt can kill your opponent, or your opponent’s creatures. Mind Rot removes your opponent’s options.
Thursday, November 12th – Jund is currently the Elephant in the Standard Metagame Room, and everyone is looking for ways to bring it down. Decks like Nissa Monument are great steps in the right direction, but Ced believes we can go further. He examines the ways in which we can attack what he describes as the worst “best deck†ever built.
Thursday, November 12th – Worlds is approaching, and Paulo is looking to break the Standard format. While he’s having scant success thus far, today he takes us through the strongest contenders in the build-up to the Big Show, and shares some ideas and insight along the way!
Wednesday, November 11th – On this week’s edition of MTGCast, the guys discuss Grand Prix: Paris, the theft of Rob Alexander’s binder, the Deck Builder’s Toolkit, the Magic Online Community Cup Challenge, and much more!
Wednesday, November 11th – Hello readers! I hope you have been enjoying your day thus far. Today I want to go back to an idea I’ve explored a few times: exploring a card, talking about a bunch of things you can do with it, and building a few decks where appropriate.
Wednesday, November 11th – We have a lot of social interaction in Magic, and sometimes we end up playing people we don’t like, or are just bothered by. Sometimes, we have interactions we aren’t comfortable with. Sometimes, though, you’re that guy, and you don’t even know it. Today, I want to go over some things that I’ve witnessed or even done that you probably shouldn’t do.
