Man, I am so glad that Mirrodin is going to rotate out of Standard in the coming weeks. Gone will be the days that anyone can tap three Urza lands and two Forests and beat you. So long Sword of Fire and Ice, I’ll see you again in Extended season! Goodbye Vedalken Shackles. Two fingers to you, Troll Ascetic! Now it’s time to focus on what decks are interesting for States. You might be surprised to find Hondens is near the top of my list.
There are a lot of highly playable cards in the set, so watch out. In fact, this may be one of the best sets for 5-Color since Odyssey block. In fact, let me show you fifty-five cards that might just change the face of 5 as we know it!
I have played in a lot of PTQs, Grand Prix, and other big tourneys, and have my fair share of PTQ Top 8 pins. I’m a player. I’m also a judge, and have judged at Nationals, Grand Prix, Worlds and Pro Tours. Since I have a foot in both camps, I want to pass on some advice – judge to player. This is stuff that players should know, and judges wish they would know. This may not win you games and matches – but it may keep you from losing games and matches.
Vintage expert and frequent Power 9 Top 8 competitor Brian DeMars makes his first appearance on StarCityGames.com today to deliver an excellent primer on Control Slaver. If you have any interest in playing or beating this deck, you should read this article.
It’s mean. It’s Green. But is it a winning machine? Chris puts his latest creation through its paces to see if mid-range Mono-Green beatings is a viable option.
Welcome back. Today I’d like to go over what you should expect if you’re planning on playing Vintage in Richmond this weekend. My job today is pretty easy though, since anyone who’s been to Richmond before knows that the metagame is extremely predictable. What’s that? You don’t know what to expect? Well read on, then. Still need a decklist for the big event? I got your back on that one too.
If you’ve never been to a prerelease, here’s what it’s like: You have this big pile of cards in front of you. In half an hour, you have to make a deck out of them. Today I’m going to take the least experienced among you and try to instruct you how to take your “pile” and turn it into a deck that can win.
blisterguy continues his fine tradition of doing everything short of force feeding you the spoiler in order to prepare readers for tomorrow’s prerelease. Recommended for good players and commoners alike.
Saturday, September 24th
* Ravnica Prerelease Day One (Check out the Prerelease Card!)
* Ravnica Team Limited Tournament
* “Power Nine” Vintage Tournament Series
* Judge Certification
* Meet Artist Christopher Moeller
(artist of Umezawa’s Jitte and Twincast!)
Sunday, September 25th
* Ravnica Prerelease Day Two (Check out the Prerelease Card!)
* Ravnica Two-Headed Giant Tournament
* NEW! “Duel for Duals” Legacy Tournament – 100 dual lands up for grabs!
* Judge Certification
* Meet Artist Christopher Moeller!
(artist of Umezawa’s Jitte and Twincast!)
I’ve never done well at any Nationals and this year proved to be no different. While most players were getting their game on in the first three rounds and were “growing in the tournament”, “gaining confidence in their deck” or even figuring out their deck while winning some rounds in Standard, I proceeded to quickly 0-3. Couldn’t beat the mono Green deck and wasn’t even close with the White Weenie guy that insisted on giving me four extra turns. I had a shot at the 0-2 table against Ogre/Demons, but even after he threw away some cards for no reason he still managed to draw six spells in a row. Nice deck, Kenji.
Grand Prix: Nottingham is coming soon, only three weeks after the prerelease, and it will rock. A single GP is of course nothing like a PTQ season. At least it’s nothing like the PTQ London season was around here. There is only one shot at glory and there are only three weeks to get to grips with a brand spanking new format that has nothing whatsoever in common with the brand spanking old and stale format. Three measly weeks to break a Limited format? That requires some atomic-powered speed demon! I intend to become that demon. All y’all can come along for the ride; but beware! The road may be a bit bumpy.
I get a lot of questions from players who love their foils as to how best to maximize the pimpness ratings of their Magical cards. In order to make this a little more clearly apparent (and to write a slightly more whimsical than usual article) I’ve decided to take up the challenge as an article. Read on to discover maximum pimposity.
One of the most widely-read writers on Multiplayer returns to the field, condensing his overly-long series of articles back from the Pleistocene Era of Magic into several sweet, easily-readable theories. Today, The Ferrett takes on the core concepts of Aggro, Combo, and Control to show you why multiplayer is different from a single-player duel – and how these differences make him reject articles from friendly readers. Plus, a brief rant on the status of our non-Premium articles!
Do you know what the hottest new combo deck for post-Ravnica Legacy looks like? Josh Silvestri does and he’s playing both Eve and Gwen Stefani today as he attempts to blow your mind.
I originally had plans to unveil a decklist after a couple New England tournaments to test-drive it. I decided not to do that when I rediscovered my affection for Shortbus Severance Belcher, and ended up winning with that instead. However, I’ve received a lot of requests to release this decklist anyway, and who am I to say no
