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Wednesday, August 12th – On today’s edition of MTGCast, the guys discuss Planechase, ME3, FTV: Exiled, and more! (But I guess you knew that from the title, hehe!)

Wednesday, August 12th – Last week I introduced the new and improved Five Color format, and today I want to talk about one of the issues that people bring up when they are confronted with Five Color. “I don’t have the cards!”

Wednesday, August 12th – My very first major Convention was GenCon 2006. Before that, I’d been to small, local conventions, the kind that draws a few hundred, maybe a thousand attendees. The kind of Convention small enough that I was a Guest of Honor… for two years in a row. But GenCon ’06 was my first time on the big stage.

Tuesday, August 11th – Time to get down and dirty with the team from the Naughty Corner, as we begin our exploration of the Black cards in M10. Having enlisted the help of some of the finest DCI minds, if you’ve ever wondered about how to Regenerate a Drudge Skeletons without getting your fingers burned, plus a host of other basic and not-so-basic essentials, join the class.

Tuesday, August 11th – As many a writer before me has already stated, M10 is not a good sealed deck format. Often your pools will lack the synergy required to produce a winning deck, leaving you in a place where you either have to get lucky, or your opponents have to get really unlucky in order for you to do well. However, drafting M10 is a different animal completely.

Monday, August 10th – In the past seven days, The Starkington Post (Bill Stark’s daily Magic blog) has brought us talk on multiple Nationals competition, the Hall of Fame ballot (and results), Grand Prix: Brighton, and much more!

Monday, August 10th – One of Josh Silverstri’s last articles on SCG was about how your Standard deck sucks, entitled – wait for it – Your Deck Sucks. Josh went through and dismantled every deck in Standard at the time. Today, I thought we’d go a step further, because it isn’t so much that your deck sucks, but rather that your format sucks.

Friday, August 7th – Hello everybody and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. This week I took the time to nicely edit all five games of the 5-Color Control mirror in the 2009 US Nationals Finals match between Charles Gindy and Adam Yurchick. Also check out WotC’s own Tom Lapille talk about power curves, power creep, and how Harm’s Way was developed. Let’s go!

Friday, August 7th – You pretty much have to eat, drink and sleep Magic to get on the Pro Tour. That was the conceit that I kept snug in my mind in explaining my relative lack of success. Until I ran across this Tweet on July 23rd: “Guess who just won the last LCQ of the day? Evan Erwin just Q’d for Nats!”

Friday, August 7th – I may not be the best mage, but at least I know how to play the game, to the point where when I have my confidence and can assess those higher states of play that allow you to avoid mistakes and let your intuition guide you…

Thursday, August 6th – Years ago, a player in a Pro Tour tried to name Hunted Wumpus with Meddling Mage. He could not remember the name – the closest he got was this article’s title. Why is that significant? It was because Hunted Wumpus was being played in an Extended format Pro Tour. That would be inconceivable today. The game has changed.