Friday, May 2nd – I love Magic. I love building decks, and banging strange combos and theme decks against other players doing the same thing. I love doing that online, when I have a hour here and there. I just don’t love doing it on MTGO 3.0 at the moment.
Friday, May 2nd – With a lot of puttering around with Standard already under our belts, just blindly theorizing stuff and seeing what works, it’s time for some more deck designing to see what sticks. Our Red and Red-Black decks last week didn’t really do anything interesting, and we have seen quite a few aggressive strategies so far, so this week I wanted to try looking at a variety of strategies rather than ‘just’ aggro- or aggro-tempo decks.
Friday, May 2nd – Next week is the StarCityGames $13,000 Tournament Weekend and you need to be prepared. It will be Shadowmoor legal and the new cards will be in hot demand. Today we’ll be discussing the new Wizards Play Network organized play program, a quick rundown of the Shadowmoor Hits and Misses, and a shiny new deck with a mondo combo so awesome it may just win tournaments. Let’s go!
Thursday, May 1st – Hello, and welcome to the final installment of Ye Olde Core Set. Today I’m serving the final meal, featuring a cavalcade of decks that we used to playtest the format.
Thursday, May 1st – Whenever a new set hits the scenes, Dave likes to revisit his previous decks and see what new and great cards will fit into them. This week, he starts back with the Obsidian Battle-Axe-fueled Warriors deck.
Wednesday, April 30th – Last week I wrote about the Persistence mechanic, touching on some ideas and concepts that I hope inspired some of you to give the Persistence cards a try. In the deckbuilding forums I’ve seen a lot of folks adopting my Juniper Order Ranger idea into Persistence engines.
Wednesday, April 30th – I’ve always hated “pick orders,†because they’re often very arbitrary and many cards relate to one another in a tier-system, anyway. How do you qualify how much better (or worse) Oblivion Ring is to Eyeblight’s Ending in a manner that outweighs the simple factor of color preference?
Tuesday, April 29th – Fresh out of a two day conference on Continuous Effects, Building a Local Community, hyper-linked Comp Rules, Professional Conduct as a Player, and a dozen more seminars and lectures covering the full range of global issues affecting the men and women who keep the game fair, Rich Hagon shares his own lecture with us, showcasing the skills and attitudes that go into making the best judges. If you think you have nothing to learn from how a judge goes about their business, this could change your mind.
Tuesday, April 29th – With the release of Shadowmoor, the Red deck has once again come to the forefront of many designers’ and players’ minds. Today, I’d like to go over some of the more debatable inclusions and possible design choices the deck will likely face in the future, all of which spring from player preference and metagame consideration.
Monday, April 28th – Take a look at some of the most powerful combos from Magic’s newest set! Doug takes a look at the new staples, compelling combo cards and others that just barely missed the cut for playability. Consider sure-fire hits like Painter’s Servant and oddball enablers like Ghastly Discovery. Is Demigod of Revenge playable without support cards to enable its brothers to come and play? Doug tackles these and more in this week’s Unlocking Legacy.
strong>Monday, April 28th – Last week we discussed a RDW list that received a lot of response both on the forums and via email. It was clear players wanted to discuss the deck further due either to confusion over the initial list or to comment on it both positively and negatively… so, here we go!
Monday, April 28th – Some of the “crap” cards suggested for my “Crap Rare Contest” turned out not to be crap, but actually format-defining. And you broke them in half! Tune in to see how one man’s terrible card is the bane of Vintage… And it’s not just Deathly Gamble!
Friday, April 25th – Magic Online Version 3 is finally here, and with it comes a barrage of problems, complaints, and requests. Players across the world are gnashing their teeth and pulling out their hair. So, what have Wizards got wrong, and what have Wizards go right? And, more importantly, where do things go from here?
Friday, April 25th – With Shadowmoor at our fingertips at last, all of the information that is really needed to figure out what the Standard metagame might look like at Pro Tour: Hollywood is now known. With the very last card now known and seen, we can begin working on building decks… and do that enough times, bashing cardboard into cardboard, and you’ll figure out what is going to be good in Standard come Hollywood.
Friday, April 25th – Hello everybody, and welcome to another Prerelease Edition of the Magic Show. This week we’re in Nashville, TN and talking about the sights, sounds, and mana costs of Shadowmoor, what it means to players in the area and what they’re excited about from the new set.
