CategoryMagic The Gathering

Magic Origins Prerelease: Seven Tips for Beginners And Experienced Players Alike

With the Magic Origins Prerelease this weekend, Gerard Fabiano has some key tips for the event – from fundamental basics to the contours of Origins Limited, Gerard is here to help you out!

Seer And Sage

Bennie was bound to love Nissa, Deepwood Sage at first sight, so much to the surprise of absolutely no one he’s hoping to crack her at the Magic Origins Prerelease this weekend and put her at the helm of this brand-new Commander deck!

The Stats On The Magic Hall Of Fame

Adrian Sullivan crunches some serious numbers on this year’s Hall of Fame candidates and compares them to each inductee in the year they were voted into the Hall in order to inform his own ballot.

Magic Origins Set Review For Commander

For the 300th edition of Embracing The Chaos, Sheldon takes an in-depth look at Magic Origins with his quarterly set review. This set is pretty chock-full of awesome Commander cards!

The Fun Police: Running Back G/R Devotion

We had a powerful Standard format full of strong decks before Magic Origins hits, so it’s reasonable to expect that we’ll still have a format full of strong decks – and anything you’re playing using the new cards will still have to hit that level to compete.

Daily Digest: Next Level Tron

Tron is one of those Modern archetypes that doesn’t shift very much, and it’s hard to find a new angle of attack either with it or against it. Today’s deck of note has managed to find a compelling argument for a different build – check it out!

Sparking Forgotten Themes With Magic Origins

Magic Origins is full of intriguing cards that flesh out both the major and the minor themes of the last few years of expansions, and Jim explores how it seems to have just a little bit of something for everyone.

A Post-Origins Gauntlet

The key to figuring out any new format is establishing a baseline, and the best way to do that is to build the format’s gauntlet. Ross does exactly that for Magic Origins Standard so you can run your decks through their paces!

8-Rack In Modern

8-Rack is an often-underestimated deck archetype in Modern, and those are exactly the sorts of decks Tom “The Boss” Ross likes to pick up and beat you with. Check out his thoughts on the archetype and how it fits into the format and give it a try yourself!

Ask A Judge – Origin Of Rules

Ask A Judge returns with the answer to all of your Magic Origins-related questions just in time for this weekend’s prerelease. Catch up on anything you might need to know here!

No Good, Very Bad Decks

Todd has no problem taking a first pass at a new archetype, knowing that whatever he’s building is probably awful and might even get him laughed at. Bad decks give way to better ones, and building a great deck means building some bad ones first.

First Pick At Magic Origins: Part One

Want to crush your Magic Origins Prerelease this weekend? Ari is here to share everything you could possibly need to know about the set; check this out today and then come back for part two tomorrow!

Daily Digest: How To Steal Wins

Punishing Fire is a great tool in Legacy for beating up on creature decks, and so is the Counterbalance / Terminus shell powered up by Sensei’s Divining Top. What if we put all of these things together?

Such Great Heights: An Evolutionary Leap In Standard

Evolutionary Leap is an exciting Magic card, and today Michael Majors explores its full potential in a variety of shells. From Rally the Ancestors to Deathmist Raptor and from Siege Rhino to Purphoros, Michael tries them all to find Standard’s next evolution!

BBD VS. Brad: U/G Devotion VS. Mono-Black Aggro

It’s time to battle Standard with Magic Origins, and today Brad and BBD explore an interesting pair of new archetypes by pounding them into each other head-first.