If you are a Red Mage, these are exciting times we live in. With Dark Ascension fast approaching, the one thing we know we can count on is that burning your opponent from twenty life to zero always ends the game in your favor.
Reuben Bresler loves a blue aggro deck, but for some reason he just refuses to touch Delver of Secrets. He claims he has some kind of curse. What’s to believe?
Sheldon talks about other people’s decks, namely a blue-white control build using Isperia the Inscrutable as the General by Matt Newnam. It’s a deck that requires skill and clever board evaluation to play.
Brian DeMars has noticed that creatures are slowly taking over the Vintage metagame. It used to be that creatures were terrible! What is happening? Are blue decks in trouble?
As you might have guessed from the title of this here article, it’s going to be devoted to the Splinter Twin archetype in Modern. Larry recently took the deck to 11th in a MTGO PTQ.
This week we’ll be using a decklist very similar to Brad Nelson’s RUG Delver from last week, but with some minor changes. Over the next few weeks, I’ll probably begin to focus a bit more on Standard as Dark Ascension is fully released.
Michael continues to discuss the possibilities of Dark Ascension. Specifically, he looks at a variety of takes on Tokens. Which will be the best color to go with white? Black? Green? Blue?
Sean McKeown loves taking on a challenge, and trying to work on a casual Kangee, Aerie Keeper Commander deck is definitely going to take some finesse. Send in your EDH decks to Sean, and he’ll offer handy deck advice.
Usman Jamil goes deeper into cube theory and why power level isn’t everything in cube. Sometimes it’s all about what unique effects can be found in each color / mana cost. For cube designers, Usman’s column has indispensable advice.
Ben Friedman does not regret his decision to run Humans at GP Orlando, and his report tells you exactly why. If you want a deck to take down SCG Open: DC this weekend, this might be the one.
StarCityGames.com, the world’s largest Magic: The Gathering secondary market retailer, is proud to announce a StarCityGames.com Open Series weekend at the Origins Game Fair on June 2-3, 2012.
We’re gathered here today to talk about some of the new graveyard interactions brought to us by Dark Ascension. This is part one of my two-part look into the Dark Ascension spoilers so far.
Who’s up for playing Zombies after Dark Ascension? Todd Anderson is pumped about the possibilities of Mono-Black Aggro using cards like Gravecrawler and Geralf’s Messenger, the new “Kitchen Finks.”
While Dark Ascension previews are in full swing, Valeriy discusses some of the new possibilities in Standard with the newest cards. He looks at Chalice of Life, Birthing Pod, and Werewolves. Time to brew brew brew!
Joey and BHJ go over the results of Grand Prix Orlando and SCG LA, and then dive into another batch of Dark Ascension previews!
