Insert Column Name Here – A Wild, Drunken Card Bender Of An Evening
Monday, March 31st – It all started with a bottle of whiskey and a pretty girl’s party.
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Magical Hack – Plenty More Fish In The Sea
Friday, March 28th – With the ability to finally turn my eye away from Extended, it seems there is a rather interesting Standard metagame out there if you look for it. Unfortunately, I’d looked at the Standard metagame and neatly categorized it just like everyone else has, and came up with two different potential solutions to the current metagame: Merfolk, and Blue-based Control.
The Magic Show #89 – Grand Prix: Philadelphia Part 2
Friday, March 28th – Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. This week we’re wrapping up Grand Prix Philly in style, starting with the ultimate intro courtesy of Tim Aten, an interview with Head Judge John Carter, and we hear from the pros on how the recent Organized Play changes have affected them.
The Kitchen Table #226 – Highlander Decks
Thursday, March 27th – Hello all, and welcome back to the city of Magicalia, where citizens are regularly in danger from the Boredom Gang, led by the duo of Dr. Competitive and Prof. Repetition. Luckily, Casual Boy is here to keep Magicalia free from the tyranny of the Boredom Gang.
Tribal Thriftiness #16 – The Search for Uncommons Continued
Thursday, March 27th – Following from last week’s column, Dave goes digging into more pre-constructed decks to find out which blocks gave good value on their precon offerings.
Whither Extended? A Potential Look at the Format, Post Rotation
Thursday, March 27th – Wizards has tweaked the upcoming Extended rotation, letting up play with our Onslaught fetchlands for another year. Good news for those who shelled out big bucks for those Flooded Strands. Nevertheless, a whopping seven sets are leaving Extended, a veritable K-T Extinction Event in the Magic kingdom.
Chatter of the Squirrel – How to Build Instructional Decks
Wednesday, March 26th – I’m generally garbage at teaching anything, and Magic’s among the most complicated things you can teach. I’d tried my hand at instruction before, to less than successful results. The rules of Magic have been etched so deeply into my cognition that it’s hard sometimes to isolate why some things work the way that they do.
You Lika The Juice? – MPR: More Honey, Less Vinegar Plzthx
Wednesday, March 26th – My life is full-tilt boogie busy, but I’ve been making an effort lately to play in more sanctioned tournaments, for all the usual reasons – it’s fun, it helps keep my play skills from atrophying further, and gives me at least semi-relevant stuff to write about. One side benefit I was looking forward to was an increase in the number of Magic Player Reward cards I’d get mailed to me…
Yawgmoth’s Whimsy #219 – Extended Wrap-up
Wednesday, March 26th – As part of the last banned and restricted list update, Wizards announced a change to the Extended rotation. Previously, Extended was to lose three years worth of sets every three years. Under that policy, come November, everything before Mirrodin block was set to leave the format. That would have been a huge change…
Unlocking Legacy – Extending a Hand
Tuesday, March 25th – In the last few weeks, a wealth of information has exploded onto the Magic scene. Unfortunately, not much of this is Legacy info. Fortunately, it’s Extended info, and never before have two formats resembled each other as much as Legacy and Extended do this season. I firmly believe that the parallels between the two formats can be used to uncover technology that may have been overlooked by the people focusing on one format, but not the other.
Removed From Game – Here’s Why…
Tuesday, March 25th – In a bizarrely complementary companion piece to last week’s efficiently-titled ‘Why?’ Rich Hagon returns with every answer you could possibly need. Except the one about the Bahrainian Oil Crisis of 1736. And the winner of Pro Tour: Hollywood. But every other question. Seriously.
Deconstructing Constructed – Standard In Motion
Tuesday, March 25th – Right now, Standard on Magic Online, at least as far as 8-mans go, looks to be 90% composed of four specific decks: Faeries, Elves, Red Deck Wins, and U/W Reveillark take up a huge portion of every single one I enter. Perhaps this will change as the high cost of Morningtide cards has dropped down to the normal Magic Online flow, i.e. anything that isn’t utterly ridiculous costs between 1-3 tickets.
There And Back Again – ELVES! in Standard
Monday, March 24th – A hearty congratulations is in order for Ryohei Masuno and Taischi Fujimoto who both managed to navigate through a difficult two days of Japanese GP competition with Elf decks. That said, they weren’t really playing Elf decks… I’ll show you an Elf deck!
Insert Column Name Here – My Common Synergy Vs. Your Rares
Monday, March 24th – A bunch of Merfolk that like to tap. A bunch of very nice things to tap them. But how can all of that tap-happy synergistic work compare with a crazy set of rares in the opponent’s hand?
Magical Hack – Grand Prix: Philadelphia from the Goblin’s Perspective
Friday, March 21st – It should come as absolutely no surprise at all that when it comes to playing Grand Prix: Philadelphia, I was going to side with the Goblins. With a little twisting and a little tuning, I’d arrived at the list I was happy with, changing one little thing here and another little thing there until I was pointed exactly where I wanted to be.