Friday, March 26th – At Pro Tour: San Diego, Olivier Ruel made an interesting deck choice: Turbo Fog. Today, he talks us through the decks main matchups and sideboarding plans, and brings us a down and dirty walkthrough of his tournament matches.
Thursday, March 25th – The Extended season is winding down, but there are still a few PTQs available to the road-hardened player. Adrian Sullivan examines the current state of the durable and versatile Zoo list, highlighting a number of successful strategies and selecting the one he believes is the way to win in the current climate.
Thursday, March 25th – In this excellent theory article, Craig Wescoe discusses the practice and application of Counterfactual Reasoning. Using a collection of in-game examples across a number of formats, Craig invites us into the minds of the highest level of spellslinger. Unmissable stuff!
Wednesday, March 24th – With Standard still dominated by the Red/Green/Black wrecking machine, Ben Lundquist is looking for something a little different. Today, he shares his funky Esper Control deck for Standard play. With UW Control mutating into a tap-out strategy, is this the next evolution of the modern countermagic deck?
Wednesday, March 24th – Sam Black has spent the last few weeks traveling the globe in search of Pro Points. In Kuala Lumpur, Sam’s plan was successful. In Yokohama, Phase 2 went just as well. Today, he shares his Extended Faeries list, and walks us through his tournament ups and downs…
Tuesday, March 23rd – This week’s edition of Duel With Ruel sees Antoine face Oli in a Jund / White Weenie battle to the death! Over fifty games, the guys dissect the matchup from both sides. Today, Antoine shares the Jund perspective. Later this week, Oli presents the White Weenie side of the matchup.
Tuesday, March 23rd – Grand Prix: Brussels is this weekend, and Manuel Bucher has been pounding people with his Jund in preparation! Packing a full complement of Master of the Wild Hunt, will Manu’s deck be the Last Jund Standing come Sunday evening? Read on to find out!
Monday, March 22nd – The current Extended season is continually shifting, with the strongest decks adapting to the freshest metagame trends. Patrick “The Innovator” Chapin takes a look at the Top 8 decks from Grand Prix: Yokohama, and suggests a control build based on a deck from Kenji Tsumura.
Monday, March 22nd – With Legacy gaining popularity across the board, Stephen Menendian looks at the popular CounterTop strategy. He shares his list, explains some of the more esoteric card choices, and runs it through a local tournament with promising results.
Friday, March 19th – At Grand Prix: Kuala Lumpur, Brian Kibler ran with an exciting update to the Blue/White Control strategy, eschewing countermagic for a strong mana package and powerful x-spells galore. The strategy bore fruit, and Brian rode it to a Top 32 final placing. Today, he shares his tournament story, and updates the list for tournaments to come…
Friday, March 19th – Cedric Phillips rocked to the StarCityGames.com Indianapolis Open weekend with White Weenie, Charbelcher, and high hopes. While he posted creditable performances across both disciplines, it’s left him hungry for more. Today, he shares his latest White Weenie build.
Friday, March 19th – Earlier this week, Antoine Ruel brought us the lowdown on the Blue/White perspective of the UW versus Naya Standard matchup. Today, Manuel Bucher rounds out the matchup with his thoughts on the match from the Naya side of the table.
Thursday, March 18th – Adrian Sullivan has been a strong supporter of Mono-Red in Standard for many a month. In today’s Sullivan Library, he discusses the latest evolution to the deck, the strategy, and his outlook on the color in general. If you’re looking to set the world alight, let Adrian provide the matches!
Thursday, March 18th – While Jund is the best deck in the format, the metagame has its fair share of pretenders to the throne. The two most popular second-string choices – UW Control and Boss Naya – face a battle to the death today! Antoine Ruel brings us the lowdown from the UW side of the table today, with Manu coming tomorrow to talk all things Naya.
Thursday, March 18th – Playing to win at PTQ level has a number of unwritten “rules.” One such rule is that when you’re mathematically out of Top 8 contention, you drop from the tournament. Craig Wescoe brings us a thoughtful article on why this course of action is not the optimal play.
