CategoryMagic The Gathering

Change is good. The American forefathers were brilliant. So was Richard Garfield.

“Clearly, green’s too good if the dominant deck is Psychatog.” – Brian Epstein, Star City’s mailing list

What common cards in Judgment should you be watching out for? How is it gonna change your strategy? Some free advice for a goofy format tomorrow.

Of the many Tog decks that were played at Osaka, there seemed to be three distinct variants – but can we recreate Zevatog in a block environment?

The peasant Magic idea works well in cases where local participation is low. Let’s take my store’s attendance as an example: Prior to the opening, it was zero – the big goose egg. In following weeks, the store had six players in playing Magic on our Saturday league opening, then twelve the following one, then twenty by the third week!

The current writing metagame is heavily weighted towards angst; with the mantle of ‘Issue Boy’ now vacated, it seems that all and sundry have picked up their angry pens and let themselves go like some kind of ventriloquist with their arms up a Rizzo doll.

The man sniffs; he senses the good rares in the kid’s binder, ready to be traded for a crap rare like Mirari or some big Angel. Little does he know that I have the trap waiting to be sprung on him.

Miraclo Gro rips up Extended… But why does it fail in Type 2 and Extended? Peter builds some Gro variants for all environments and shows you how environment affects deckbuilding.

A short thought on Gary’s performance.

Even if you’re playing a card-for-card copy of the latest PT winner, you’re still playing your own deck. How? Daniel examines the thumbprints that we all leave on our cards.

ARRR! Ted celebrates his ascension to a StarCity Featured Writer by giving an excellent”How-To” Guide on being effectively rogue. Sure, you can be rogue and still suck… But how do you turn your suck rogue decks into tourney-smashing winners?

And so I ask you, the Magic community, a critical question that has never been answered in Magic before or since: What makes a team win? Help me find one of the core fundamentals of Magic that the Lucky Seven never answered.

Now on a slower pace, Anthony has time to think about life’s great questions: What is the best way to play Emperor with eight people? And what is the Secretly Forbidden Topic of StarCity?