With everyone’s favorite grumpy Canadian on his way to Geneva (to let those PT hopefuls do some real Drafting With Rich), Jeroen “Ask The Drama” Remie has stepped manfully into the breach. For the rest of the week, Jeroen will bring us a draft each day, sharing each pick and ponderance along the way. For more protracted discussion on his card choices, come visit the forums!
With John Fiorillo winging his way to Geneva, there’s a change to our advertised schedule today. Kyle Sanchez steps into John’s shoes, and regales us with the sorry tale of two PTQ appearences, both piloting an interesting homebrew deck that Kyle initially offered to the U.S National team for Worlds. Given that Kyle has made the final of both the PTQs in question, maybe they were hasty in dismissing the deck so quickly…
Extended season is still in full swing, and with PTQs around each and every corner, players are screaming for the latest tech in order to bring home the proverbial bacon. Patrick “The Innovator” Chapin presents two decklists for our perusal, the first an entertaining multicolor Rock variant, and the second an updated Tog list that takes advantage of the Planar Chaos cards. Will these decks take anyone to the top? Read on to find out…
Last week, columnist and Hall of Famer Raphael Levy discussed the pick orders for all four Blue archetypes in Time Spiral / Planar Chaos draft. This week, Raph moves on to the Red offerings. Early indcations show that Red could be the strongest color for Limited play in the set, which means that correct evaluation of the commons in each archetype is of paramount importance. Wanna draft TTP like a pro? Raph has the answers for you…
For Jeroen’s stint in the Impact series, Mr Remie tackles some of the burning Planar Chaos issues that have been on your minds. His “Ask The Drama” column this week concentrates entirely on reader-posed Planar Chaos questions – he looks at the cards that are overrated, the cards that are undervalued, and the cards that will rock Geneva. He also shares his vision of Mono-Black Control for the coming Standard environment.
With everyone’s favorite grumpy Canadian winging his way towards Geneva (to let those PT hopefuls do some real Drafting With Rich), Jeroen “Ask The Drama” Remie has stepped manfully into the breach. For the rest of the week, Jeroen will bring us a draft each day, sharing each pick and ponderance along the way. For more protracted discussion on his card choices, come visit the forums!
With everyone’s favorite grumpy Canadian winging his way towards Geneva (to let those PT hopefuls do some real Drafting With Rich), Jeroen “Ask The Drama” Remie has stepped manfully into the breach. For the rest of the week, Jeroen will bring us a draft each day, sharing each pick and ponderance along the way. For more protracted discussion on his card choices, come visit the forums!
Jamie Wakefield brings us this week’s look into all things Green from the comfort of a foregin shore… Spain! He takes us through the developments he’s made to his evolving Beast Attack Mono-Green deck, and shares more stories from his ever-changing life. Soon, Jamie’s Madrid Adventure will become a permanent one, and we all wish him luck. In the meantime, can his Extended beatdown machine conquer the degenerate likes of TEPS and Scepter-Chant?
In the second part of our Impact series on Planar Chaos, Richard Feldman looks at the cards that’ll make waves in the format du jour – Extended. Sure, everyone is going ga-ga for Extirpate, and by now the world and his dog are sick to death of Damnation… but what other cards look likely to make waves in the diverse Extended metagame? Will your pet deck flourish under the Planar Chaos regime?
One of the more popular innovations to return with Time Spiral was the Morph mechanic. Playing a card face-down feels so decadent. Of course, when a Morph hits the table, everyone has to assume it’s the perfect answer to the problem at hand. Naoki takes us through some of the finer points of Morph play, from the simple to the sublime, and walks us through a few of the Planar Chaos goodies than can spread the Morph Love.
Stephen recently decided to put his money where his mouth was: he rocked up to a Vintage tournament armed with Mana Ichorid. Today’s “Insane Plays” looks at two tournaments that asked some interesting questions of Stephen’s theoretical analysis of the matchups… and poses some possible workarounds.
In the first of a week-long five-part series that investigates Planar Chaos, Nick Eisel examines the new cards in detail. Instead of a “normal” card-by-card set review, we’ll be looking at the impact that Planar Chaos will have across a number of formats. Nick’s agenda? Planar Chaos in TTP draft. Stay tuned this week for more Impact articles!
In today’s Flores Friday, Mike takes a break from Extended testing to bring us an exciting deck primed for the fast-approaching Planar Chaos Standard. As the name suggests, the deck contains a pair of 6/6 three-color flying beatsticks. Drawing cards, killing guys, ramping mana, and destroying the world… and who doesn’t enjoy swinging with Dragons?
Rich continues his excellent series of Time Spiral Draft walkthroughs, presenting each pick as it happened and highlighting each card chosen. He shares his final decklist, and gives us a brief overview of his results and processes. As usual, for more detailed draft deconstruction, come visit us in the forums!
Craig “The Professor” Jones heartily embraces the Dark Side in this article, condemning himself to oblivion by flirting with the Black cards of Planar Chaos. He takes a long look at all the color has to offer – including Damnation, of course – and brings us some interesting decklists that could bear fruit when the new set becomes Standard-legal. Decklists, tech, and the usual Prof humor… all in one tasty package!
