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!
He’s brought us Black. He’s brought us Red. He’s brought us White. Today? The Green cards. Ben takes us through his comprehensive common pick order, highlights some of the more notable uncommons in the set, and presents a workable and successful base-Green draft deck for us to analyze. When TIme Spiral was hot off the presses, the smart money avoided the Green cards. However, today’s Draft Investors aren’t so sure…
With two days of the World Championships behind him, Craig “The Professor” Jones had a possible dash-for-cash situation: with a decent performance in the Extended portion of the event, Prof could finish in the money. After a few false starts in the deck-choice arena, he settled on a deck that posted an immaculate 6-0 record… but not by him. Craig shares his thoughts on the deck, and the metagame, with his usual insight and wit.
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!
Paul continues his intriguing “JohnnyDraft” article series, which today delivers not one but two complete triple Time Spiral Draft walkthroughs. If that weren’t enough, Mr Jordan also brings us a plethora of statistics and related detail, and chronicles his attempt to rid himself of his personal Time Spiral Draft Demons…
In his first article for StarCityGames.com, Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa takes us through every step and stutter on his journey to a Top 8 place in this year’s World Championships. His report shares his pre-Worlds preparation and the decklists he finally chose, a breakdown of each round of both Constructed and Draft, plus the changes he’d make to his 60-card piles in the post-Worlds meta. This is an excellent debut article from one of the game’s hottest talents, and we look forward to many more!
Josh brings us part 2 of his series examining the Extended decks that made a spalsh at last month’s Worlds competition. There are three more aggressive options on the slab today: Boros Deck Wins, Aggro Loam, and Flow Aggro. The coming PTQ season will be shaped by decks like these… are you prepared to face the beatdown?
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!
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!
Mark does something out-of-character in this article… he admits that Flores was right. Sure, it takes a lot out of him, but the words come out eventually. This excellent article tackles the concept of discipline in Magic, and covers a number of helpful tips that can improve our games, whatever the level of our current play. If you’re serious about improvement, then this article is unmissable.
Vintage has undergone a lot of upheaval this year. New decks, new cards, new rulings on old favorites… the Vintage Mage has never had it so good. Today we have part 1 of the Vintage Year in Review, an overview of the first six months of 2006 from the most vocal writer in the format today. The cards may change, but Vintage remains constant. Love Vintage? Then you’ll love this…
After a short hiatus, Rich Hoaen returns to continue his daily article series! Each day, the grumpy Canadian draft master takes us through a Magic Online draft, from pick 1 to pick 45, and shares his insight into the cards, the deck, and the games themselves. For more detailed analysis, Rich answers your questions in the forums!
After a self-confessed average day at the office during the Standard portion of Worlds, Josh had high hopes going into the Time Spiral drafts. He has been extremely vocal on his tactics and thoughts on the format, and was feeling confident of at least posting a 3-0 in the first pod. So, how did he do? Read on to find out!
The masses have asked… and Mike has delivered! Today’s Flores Friday takes a look at the new Extended format post-Worlds, and offers up a few interesting deck tidbits. The first is inspired by unlucky 9th-place finisher at Worlds, Shaheen Soorani… while the second is inspired by our own Ben Bleiweiss! Extended – Fun for All the Family!
After a short hiatus, Rich Hoaen returns to continue his daily article series! Each day, the grumpy Canadian draft master takes us through a Magic Online draft, from pick 1 to pick 45, and shares his insight into the cards, the deck, and the games themselves. For more detailed analysis, Rich answers your questions in the forums!
