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Friday, June 11th – Hello folks, and welcome to another entry in the column that gives you casual lovin’ each week. This week I wanted to talk about winning the game by attacking.

Thursday, June 10th – You are the head judge of 200+ player event. You have a staff of a dozen other judges and a scorekeeper working under you. Here’s a round by round description of the event, and the decisions you would need to make. I’ll describe the issues first, to let you decide how you would handle them, then give my solution.

Thursday, June 10th – Today, there is a Standard PTQ! I thought about what I was going to play last night, and I was flopping between Jund, U/W, and Michael Pozsgay’s Naya Planeswalkers. Right now I’m leaning toward the latter…

Thursday, June 10th – Magic: the Gathering is a complex game, full of complex situations. It has captured the hearts and minds of many players over the years. It seems that one tremendous draw to the game is the uniqueness of each card. Whether or not you like a card for its effect, artwork or for any other reason, I have found that most everyone has a favorite.

Thursday, June 10th – At the end of last week’s article, I was in Madison, WI at the home of Brian Kowal and we had just begun to crack the draft format, and had Mono-Red and Summoning Trap as archetypes we thought were viable in the Block Constructed format.

Wednesday, June 9th – In this week’s edition of MTGCast, the guys discuss M11 speculation, Grand Prix: Sendai, the StarCityGames.com Philadelphia Open, and much more!

Wednesday, June 9th – Teaching Magic is pretty hard because there is so much information the new player has to absorb at once. Land and the mana system is fairly straightforward. Explaining creatures, power and toughness, and how combat works is relatively simple. Explaining other card types is also pretty easy. Instants are a little tricky because it’s not necessarily intuitive that you are allowed to do things during another person’s turn, but once you clear that hurdle, instants aren’t that complicated. Taken all together, however, the system is incredibly complex.