Friday, May 29th – There is something so very clever about the Cascade Swans deck. Cascade is clearly at its most powerful when it is pure tutoring instead of merely card-and-mana-advantage but with a random effect generated on top of the spell, and one of the potential answers to doing this is to just play an awful lot of lands and not a lot of spells.
Friday, May 29th – Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. This week we’re going to take a look at the GP: Seattle metagame, how Swans crushed in Barcelona, and how this new combo deck will be seen everywhere this weekend. Let’s go!
Thursday, May 28th – In my experience, Regionals tends to bring in a bunch of players with a wide range of ability. For some people this is the biggest tournament they will play in (unless a GP shows up close enough). With this in mind, I remind players that the Universal Tournament Rules states players must shuffle an opponent’s deck at the start of a game, and must at least cut a deck when presented after shuffling effects during a game.
Thursday, May 28th – This week, I’ll be driving up to Seattle for a little vacation. School’s out, and before my summer classes begin, I thought I would take a little trip to visit some old friends up in the Pacific Northwest. As it turns out, there’s a Magic tournament of some repute going on too.
Thursday, May 28th – Last week, I covered my initial foray with TurboFog leading up to Regionals. After extensively playing the deck since then, analyzing the effect of Grand Prix: Barcelona, and repeatedly reading and hearing misconception after misconception about the deck, I feel like the deck deserves a more in depth review.
Thursday, May 28th – The following are passages from “Next Level Magic,” Patrick Chapin’s Strategy Guide that is being released as an e-book, here on StarCityGames.com, at the end of the month. Each week this month, there will be an excerpt from the book for your enjoyment. This week: Card Advantage and Virtual Card Advantage.
Wednesday, May 27th – On this week’s edition of MTGCast, the guys discuss Duels of the Planeswalker, promo cards, cool Regionals decks, and much more!
Wednesday, May 27th – Out on the road and headed for Seattle, Dave tackles a few small topics prompted (and inspired) by his road trip to the Grand Prix.
Wednesday, May 27th – Suppose that one of your opponents has just played a Black Big Nasty Creature. If you are attacked by said creature, you will take the damage and die. You have no creatures out. You have ten mana of any color available to you, and one card in hand. You have a nicely stocked graveyard, since it is late in the day. The card in hand is Dimir Infiltrator. In your deck is a Terminate. What do you do?
Wednesday, May 27th – I am known to hate a spot removal spell. Occasionally you get something like Skred, sure, that is just so unbelievably good that I’ll swallow my pride and mark a 4 next to it on the deck-reg sheet. But even then I have to suppress a chuckle when people are talking about it as ‘the best card in the format.’ It kills a dude. Awesome.
Tuesday, May 26th – In the past seven days, The Starkington Post (Bill Stark’s daily Magic blog) has brought us more talk on Turbo Fog (particularly the sideboarding), Decks of the Week, movie reviews, and more!
Tuesday, May 26th – Winning the lottery is a pretty unlikely proposition, yet I am reliably informed that certain people participate. Having an uncontrollable desire to revisit some of my past columns here at StarCityGames.com is another statistically unlikely scenario, but just in case you turn out to be the man with a girlfriend out of town for the week and nothing in the fridge, I’m here to help.
Tuesday, May 26th – I never miss Regionals if I can avoid it. Even if I scrubbed out, Lord knows I could use the diversion. I’d like to tell you about all my various decks I built for testing, but between the release of Alara Reborn and Regionals, it was mostly building decks with Jund Hackblade and discovering that they sucked. I ultimately settled on B/W Tokens…
Tuesday, May 26th – After weeks of talking about how Lorescale Coatl might make a big splash in Legacy, Doug finally gets around to making his own Coatl deck. Inside, find out why he abandons “natural” choices like Sensei’s Divining Top and instead, dips into Magic history for a different take on aggro-control. How can such a deck beat formidable problems in the format like Swords To Plowshares and Sower of Temptation? Can a player hitch their star to a fragile winged snake and fly it in to victory? Find out inside!
Monday, May 25th – Last Friday night, I had to make a decision for the next day’s Vintage tournament: Ichorid or Oath of Druids? I’ve piloted Oath to two Top 8s in my last three events including one win, and my overall win percentage is still north of 70% with the deck, even after going 2-2 at the Philly Open 3.
