Friday, September 26th – We’ve had a few weeks now to get used to the new realms of Shards of Alara, to learn the names ‘Grixis, Esper, Bant, Naya, Jund’ and figure out which color combinations they each espouse. We’ve seen some previews, but when it comes to playing at the Prerelease you’ll want to have more knowledge than just seeing a few cards (mostly rares) and assuming they define the set.
Friday, September 26th – Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. This week we’re going to take a look at what could only be described as the upcoming Reflecting Pool metagame, take a look at the latest Shards of Alara spoilers, and detail my plans for attending the Magic Cruise in February and a last ditch effort to reach Germany. Let’s go!
Friday, September 26th – Nick Eisel goes head-to-head with Canada’s finest drafter in his very own Drafting With Nick series! Like Rich, Nick takes us through an 8-4 Shadowmoor / Eventide Draft on Magic Online, and shares his thoughts in the article and the forums!
Friday, September 26th – Canadian draft maestro Rich Hoaen takes us for a stroll through an 8-4 Shadowmoor / Eventide draft on Magic Online, from pick 1 to pick 45, and shares his special insights after the draft and in the forums.
Friday, September 26th – Shards of Alara is set to shake up Standard when it makes its debut in a little over a week’s time. With 249 cards to be added to the format, it’s easy to forget that, as cards disappear into the Extended twilight, one of the best paths to success comes through focusing on what we already have. Adrian examines the cards available in 10th Edition, and how they could impact the Block Constructed strategies that will form the spine of the New Standard.
Friday, September 26th – Want to know which cards will be hot at your prerelease this weekend? Which cards should you pick up now while they are undervalued, and which should you trade away while they are overhyped? Is this the greatest set ever printed for cubes and Type 4 (answer: Yes!) If you want to be informed at your prerelease, you must read Ben’s analysis of the Financial Value of Shards of Alara!
Thursday, September 25th – Hello my friends, and welcome back to the column dedicated to the casual. My name is Abe and I am your DJ, spinning you decks from around the Casualverse. Today I want to hit up one of my favorite formats, Peasant Magic. Lorwyn and Shadowmoor blocks gave us a lot of fun cards for our decks, and in Peasant Magic, they gave us some great tools…
Thursday, September 25th – This week I’ll look at Masters Edition II, the new set for online Classic and casual players. It has 80 rares, 80 uncommons, and 80 commons. That means that, to collect playsets of all the commons, you will need to bust about 29 boosters (on average and ignoring foils)…
Thursday, September 25th – Since the complete spoiler for Shards of Alara isn’t publicly available as I’m writing this, I’ve decided to forego a set review and instead focus on some of the themes specific Shards bring us with an eye towards Standard. What’s caught my imagination first is the Devour mechanic as offered up by the denizens of Jund, the Black-Red-Green Shard.
Thursday, September 25th – Nick Eisel goes head-to-head with Canada’s finest drafter in his very own Drafting With Nick series! Like Rich, Nick takes us through an 8-4 Shadowmoor / Eventide Draft on Magic Online, and shares his thoughts in the article and the forums!
Thursday, September 25th – Canadian draft maestro Rich Hoaen takes us for a stroll through an 8-4 Shadowmoor / Eventide draft on Magic Online, from pick 1 to pick 45, and shares his special insights after the draft and in the forums.
Thursday, September 25th – Shards of Alara promises much to the player searching for cool Constructed plays and strategies. With five distinct shards to mine for synergies and tech, the new set looks certain to send shockwaves through Standard. Today, Richard Feldman looks at an intriguing aggro-control option offered up by the Blue, Green, and White offerings of Bant… Warning: contains spoilers.
Thursday, September 25th – With Shards of Alara just around the corner, Pro Tour finalist Billy Moreno walks us through a difficult Shadowmoor / Eventide draft with an eye toward sharing his final thoughts on the format as a whole. With at least a month before SSE drafts fade from Magic Online, can you put Billy’s lessons to profitable use?
Wednesday, September 24th – Big October sets don’t just mean a flurry of new cards and new ideas – it also means we need to say goodbye to the cards that are rotating off to Extendedland.
Wednesday, September 24th – There is, and will always be, a market for the possibility of professional – and I mean “pay the bills†professional – Magic-related gaming. It’s what got me started and why I continue to do loony things like ship $1400 for a ticket to Berlin. But honestly, so long as several times a year there exists an opportunity to make an amount comparable to a twentysomething’s annual income, that market is going to be sated to an extent.
