Jim has been drafting Vintage Masters like a fiend for the past two weeks, and he has a deep look at the format and some of its key archetypes that he thinks will help players who are looking to dive into drafting the busted packs.
Jeff Hoogland is known on the Open Series as a serious brewer. Get to know more about the man behind Junk Midrange and Four-Color Loam as he chases an invite to the Players’ Championship.
Sheldon hits a milestone with article #250, reflects back on the past five years of writing and how Commander has grown in that time – and looks forward to the next five years of growth and change.
Tom has some advice to anyone trying to beat the best deck in the format: first, you have to walk a mile in their shoes. Then, and only then, will you know how to properly club them over the head. Sage advice for #SCGWOR this weekend!
Carsten looks at Magic 2015 from the discerning perspective of a Legacy deckbuilder – what cards might make the cut in Eternal formats, and what cards (if any) look like they might form the center of new deck archetypes?
Cedric Phillips sits down with Patrick “PSulli” Sullivan to discuss the results of the Open Series in Portland and begin dissecting the sweet new cards in M15.
Chris is really excited for a lot of Magic 2015 cards, and he looks at some of his favorites so far and brews up decks around them.
Michael takes Yisan, the Wandering Bard out on a test-drive, putting different builds through their paces to see if Yisan has the potential to be the centerpiece of a (good) new deck.
With the Power Nine now legal on MTGO, Brian checks in on the digital metagame’s development in search of sweet tech and with an eye out for developing metagame trends and cycles.
David steps in to cover for Cassidy after his departure, and takes the opportunity to work on a complicated, interesting Simic deck with Vorel of the Hull Clade at the helm.
What goes into making a Grand Prix successful? What makes one a failure instead? Glenn looks behind the judge’s and TO’s curtain to see what makes a Grand Prix happen at all, and what kinds of stresses an event can come under.
In his final column (at least for the foreseeable future), Mark has some big-picture lessons he’d like to impart about what it means to play Magic and how we, as a community, are so very interconnected.
Matt instantly fell in love with Strength from the Fallen the moment he saw it, even though he thought it was just a Lhurgoyf Aura. He has a few experimental builds to find the card a home, from a straightforward beatdown deck to a highly-convoluted control deck.
Abe takes a new legendary creature from Magic 2015 out for a spin, trying out Jalira, Master Polymorphist in a quirky, fun Commander deck centered on taking other people’s stuff and Polymorphing it into something of your own!
Anthony looks at the oft-misunderstood qualities of Chandra, Pyromaster – and notes the similarities she shares with Magic 2015’s new breed of planeswalkers, with all of them just a little bit hard to wrap your head around.
