Monday, December 13th – Who will make the final Top 8 of the SCG Talent Search? Will it be Jon Agley, who tackled theory, Valeriy Shunkov, Valakut/tech expert, or Carsten Kotter, the Eternal writer? One will have to go home… who’s it gonna be?
Monday, December 13th – Patrick Chapin dives into Extended, and taking all the data from Worlds, breaks down the decks into Tier 1, Tier 1.5, Tier 2, and just plain bad.
Monday, December 13th – Matt Sperling made a smart metagame decision for Worlds and played an Extended deck no one was expecting – Red Deck Wins. He was inches away from Top 8 and thousands of dollars, the biggest match of his life…
Monday, December 13th – Have you ever stopped doing something for an extended period of time, and upon trying it again, wondered why you ever stopped in the first place? That’s me and the Standard format.
Monday, December 13th – Survivals have passed the point of no return – at least on the market. Will it be worth holding onto them? Probably not. Jon Medina elaborates on Legacy and Standard and provides a list of cards to watch in Extended.
Monday, December 13th – Jacob Van Lunen, Building on a Budget columnist on MagicTheGathering.com, won a Pro Tour on the back of poison counters back in 2007. Without Virulent Sliver though, will he continue poisoning opponents in Draft?
Monday, December 13th – How does education limit the way we think? Gavin inspects age-old “laws” of Magic theory and questions what we take for granted, including the question of play vs. draw and life gain’s usefulness.
Friday, December 10th – We’re in Richmond for the StarCityGames.com Invitational and Open Series! This week, we’re joined by Patrick Chapin to discuss a huge variety of topics.
Friday, December 10th – Ted analyzes the Worlds metagame and the potential takeover of blue decks. He discusses Brian Kibler’s Caw-Go, Wafo-Tapa’s U/B, Elves in Standard, and he finishes with Quotable Quotes from ‘kaib.’
Friday, December 10th – Shaheen fights multiple battles today, one with U/W Control against the Standard Open field, the other against Preordain. Is violence really the answer here?
Friday, December 10th – With special guests Gerard Fabiano, Sam Black, Alex Bertoncini (SCG Player of the year), Shaheen Soorani, and more! Listen to this fun-filled podcast only available on StarCityGames.com.
Friday, December 10th – I pick cards no one else is using and try to build a deck that’s interesting and surprising. Not being a smart guy, the only way I can do this is the “Rocky†method. I just pound meat until I get a title shot.
Friday, December 10th – Hello everybody and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. This week we have SCG Invitational champion Gerry Thompson and Patrick Chapin on Survival of the Fittest and Tomoharu Saito. Let’s go!
Friday, December 10th – Back-to-back winner of two SCG Opens, Dan Jordan went into the Invitational with high expectations. He then went 7-6 but came out a new man in other ways.
Friday, December 10th – If you got a text saying, “U/W Control with Hawks is very good. Japanese tech deck,†would you switch into it? Brian Kibler did and went undefeated on Day 1 of Worlds! Read all about the deck. Caw!
