What makes a player worthy for the Magic: the Gathering Hall of Fame? Sheldon explores what he looked at this year as he casts his ballot, and expands his view beyond the Pro Players to ask whether non-players should also be inducted into the Magic Pro Tour Hall of Fame.
Now that the PPTQ system is well-established and has fully replaced the former PTQ system, Mark Nestico asks a provocative question: is this helping or hurting the achievement of the PPTQ system’s stated goals?
Matt Higgs loves quirky, off-the-wall decks, and today he further explores his fascination with Magic Origins most compellingly powerful card, Day’s Undoing.
After actually asking to get taken off of the nominating committee this year, Gary Wise found out he still had a vote for the 2015 Hall of Fame – and with great power comes great responsibility.
Siege Rhino is a heck of a card, and this week’s results at #SCGCHI still suggest it is a top contender in Standard even though another deck stormed the Top Eight. Pro Tour Champion Shaun McLaren examines how to build, play, and mulligan with Abzan in time for #SCGRICH!
Brad Nelson has gone so far as to call G/R Devotion “The Fun Police,” as in “this is the reason you can’t just play whatever you want in Standard.” So it comes as no surprise that he and his squad played it at #SCGCHI – or that they did very well for themselves.
With no new cards banned in Modern as of the last announcement, GerryT digs up an alternative look at how aggro you can go with Primeval Titan and Amulet of Vigor.
Metagaming is all about figuring out the right level to shoot for and then hitting it, and Anthony Lowry looks at whether it’s worth building your deck around opponents playing Languish at this point in the metagame.
With more time now to reflect on his experience from Grand Prix Lille, Carsten presents not just his report from that tournament but what he’s learned and how that informs his choices as he moves forward and rebuilds the deck.
In today’s video, GerryT looks at an unusual Delver build from a Grand Prix Trial at GP Lille, testing out Death’s Shadow in Legacy as an efficient tempo threat in this low-curve aggro/tempo build.
For today’s Versus Video, Todd and BBD battle Modern as they test out some of the format’s more powerful new decks. Check them out in time for the $5K Premier IQ at #SCGRICH this weekend!
With the first major results in at #SGCHI this weekend, Patrick “The Innovator” Chapin breaks down the top decks from that event and what we can expect of the format going forward to #SCGRICH this weekend and Pro Tour Magic Origins!
Abe adds his latest set to the Underused Hall of Fame, enshrining the many underplayed wonders of Innistrad Block to later remembrance by eager casual and Commander players in search of a strong card they’ve never heard of or may have just forgotten.
Jund and Abzan have been two sides of the same awesome B/G/x coin in Modern for some time now, but what if it was the green you could give up and mix the two of them? Today’s pair of Mardu decks ask exactly that.
Brian “The Dragonmaster” Kibler unpacks his Magic Origins Prerelease experience, looking back again at the Limited format now that we’ve all had the chance to play with the cards a little and figuring out what makes it tick.
