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This week’s puzzle deals with another card game – Mao. Mao is my favorite game that is played with a standard deck of 52 playing cards, but the nifty part is that the rules of the game are not explained up front to the players. In that vein, the rules for this puzzle are also left ambiguous. I have confidence that you will figure everything out, though. And this time, there’s a prize on the line… so good luck!

What happens with me at every release tournament is that I face The Choice. Do I go with the good build, the one that I know will do well because it’s packed with the 90% of the same damn cards I’ve been running at every event for the past three months…. Or do I go with the new and potentially weaker build that is stuffed with 40% of the new and crazy?

Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. This week we’re going to take a look at what’s new, what’s hot, and the lessons you could learn from players better than yourself. Along the way we’ll take a look at the absurdity of in-jokes and the wackiness that is Vintage Ichorid.

I promised last week that I’d look into Future Sight additions for Standard and its impact on Block Constructed play, so we’ll be starting with an analysis of where Future Sight fits in with the existing Standard format and what promising new cards might spawn as-yet-unseen archetypes on their strength alone. Future Sight has a lot of cards that fit into a particular theme or niche, and a lot of different niches to fill, so we’ll look at each of those niches in turn and expand upon where you can go with that to build upon the new cards’ strengths.

Bonjour mes amis! I am back this week with several Future Sight-themed decks. I want to help you get your collective deckbuilding juices a-flowing. Maybe I’ll spark an idea or two for my own deck collection as well!

Talen, it seems, is no fan of Future Sight. In the first of three separate set review articles, he questions the mechanics that make up the meat of the set, and asks the developers why certain cards appeared in certain spaces. Vocal and outspoken as usual… do you agree with his assessment?

Two-Headed Giant… the format that divides opinion like no other! While some folk can’t get enough of its team-tastic goodness, other players read the phrase “2HG” and die a little inside. Today’s Chatter of the Squirrel breaks down the core strategies of the format into manageable chunks, and lays bare the information you’ll need in order to capture that elusive Blue Envelope.

So… this is the future, eh? This set was pretty well hyped and yet, here I sit, wondering where the majesty is. I was so excited about this set, thinking about all the things that they could with “the future” – the possibilities seemed endless. Instead we get… Keyword City, Population: Ugh.

When I did my Planar Chaos review, I got more than a little negative feedback for hedging my bets on many of the cards. Looking back over that review, I have to agree. I got a bit gun shy. Not this time around. I’ve learned my lesson, baby. You guys want black and white, and I’m here to give it to you.