StarCityGames.com has undergone a great deal of change in the last year. Today Teddy Card Game addresses those changes, highlights many of the new features you might not be aware of for both Free and Premium users, and discusses your suggestions for improvements to the site. Do you want to know where Star City is headed? Check inside, my friends, check inside.
The spoiler is up; the set reviews are coming. I’m going to look at the set, too, but I’ll analyze it from a multiplayer perspective. Limited specialists can tell you how to draft it, and I haven’t tested enough to give you States previews, but multiplayer? I can do that. Is this a powerhouse set for multiplayer? Read on.
Welcome back, everybody. Today we’re going to go over two of the hottest cards in Vintage right now and likely for a long time to come.
Once again, Abe plays by the harsh rules he’s created for himself: a deck of bad rares sits next to his desk. He pulls out a card at random. Whatever he pulls, he has to build a deck around it. So what terrible, terrible cards has Abe drawn this time?
Hello again lads and lasses. As you may have guessed, this is my week for Star City Daily. Today I’d like to cover some ground that should be pretty much common knowledge for the real competitors in Vintage already, but may just be something you’ve never actively thought about: the how, when, where, and why of drawing cards. Okay, this is a Ben Kowal daily… maybe we’ll just cover two of those to start.
In honor of National Talk Like a Pirate day, Nationals competitor and scurvy dog Dave Meddish displays his fun side with a few theme decks for all the unabashed rogues among you.
In the forum for Monday’s article, a suggestion was made for one of my articles. A reader wanted a Magic: The Electronic exclusive. What an excellent suggestion! I have taken it upon myself to build a fun, yet recent, deck that can be played in casual rooms everywhere. (Well, just the one casual room, but you can access it from anywhere.)
One of the members of the Dutch National team tells the exciting tale of events from his 2005 National Championships. How exactly did he go from a 3-3 record after round 6 directly to the finals? Details are inside.
It takes a wise man to tackle a Magician’s wages of sin with grace, but it takes a Brit to make it truly funny. Stevenson proves himself both British and wise in this article that will make you smarter, better at Magic, and perhaps spew milk out of your nose once or twice.
In today’s Ben’s Corner, Ben reveals the top selling 9th Edition cards culled from the StarCityGames.com sales database!
Also this week: Which creature is poised to become the marquee creature in Standard? How can you get Ravnica singles at the lowest prices? Why will Ben’s Corner be a premium article next week? The answers to all this and more is only a click away!
For Thursday’s deck, I decided to look at my recent article on Fifty Multiplayer Combos from Saviors for inspiration. I came across three combos close together using Freed from the Real. It seemed like I already had the backbone for a Red/Blue deck using Freed from the Real to abuse a few creatures. However, rounding out those deck ideas was a bit more difficult. Here’s what I ended up with:
The results of the Legacy Championships and the Grand Prix trials demonstrate that the Legacy environment is dominated by two distinct archetypes – aggro and control. Landstill decks were very successful prior to September 1st 2004, and they continue to be so even with Mana Drain out of the format. The accessibility and simplicity of Goblins make it the more popular deck at the moment, although the two decks are about even when matched up with each other. These two archetypes are going to continue to develop in unknown ways in the coming months. Although Legacy Stax has been talked about for months now, its absence in the metagame has never been more noticeable. A new archetype is needed that will diversify the format’s upper tier.
Hello again! This is the Wednesday installment of our Week o’ Decks. Each day sees me bringing a separate deck for your enjoyment. I was wondering about various deck ideas, when I decided top find a card from a nice, old set and build a deck around it.
A brief history of comparable Wizards asymmetrical card game releases and how Magic is once again breaking the established conventions. (Yes, he’s talking about Ravnica here.)
I’m not going to try to convince you to stop playing with a list of cards that seem to come up regularly in multiplayer games that I’ve played and end up beating me. While Chris Hyde claimed that “decent human beings™ don’t play with these cards,” we all know that most of the people we play Magic with – including ourselves – are not decent human beings™, at least according to Chris’s definition! These people are not going to become decent human beings™ just because someone tells us that the cards we use wreck their fun. So what can we actually do to stop their nefarious schemes?
