The Kitchen Table #341 – Finding Guiltfeeders
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.
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Yawgmoth’s Whimsy #328 – You Be The Judge
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.
Too Much Information – StarCityGames.com Standard Open: Philadelphia
Thursday, June 10th – The Standard PTQ season in full swing! Nationals Qualifiers and a 1900 player GP are in the rearview! Standard has never been a more important format! The StarCityGames.com Standard Open in Philadelphia gives us over 3000 results to breakdown and analyze. Get your information here and get an edge for the Open Weekend in Seattle!
Flow of Ideas – The Lost Journal of a Pro Tour: San Juan Beach House Participant, Part 2
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…
The Wescoe Connection – Lessons from Standard and Legacy in Philadelphia
Thursday, June 10th – Craig Wescoe partook in both tournaments at the StarCityGames.com Open in Philadelphia, and he learned a lot about the respective formats in the process. Today, he imparts his multi-format wisdom in time for the StarCityGames.com Open in Seattle this coming weekend!
Insider Information – Facing Red in San Juan
Thursday, June 10th – In last week’s companion article, Cedric Phillips described the highs of dodging Mono Red at Pro Tour: San Juan. Today, he shares the lows of facing Mono Red at Pro Tour: San Juan, alongside an upsetting pair of drafts that did little to lift his spirits.
Feature Article – Goblin Game Guy
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.
Best of the West – Preparing for San Juan, Part 2
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.
Sullivan Library – Standard, in Three Borders
Thursday, June 10th – Adrian Sullivan returns to writing after a scholastic break, and takes a long and hard look at the current Standard metagame. He suggests a number of intriguing approaches to the format – including a Red deck – and provides some excellent food for thought for those playing the StarCityGames.com Open Series events in Seattle this weekend!
Black Magic – Understanding Standard and the Power of Fours
Wednesday, June 9th – Standard, it seems, is packed with powerful options. Thankfully, there are many viable decks, and the all-conquering strategy is largely a thing of the past. However, this creates its own problems. Today, Sam Black examines one of the lynchpins in the current metagame: the power of the four-mana spells. How will you approach your next Constructed tournament?
Drafting With Olivier – Rise of the Eldrazi #2
Wednesday, June 9th – Hall of Famer Olivier Ruel takes us through an 8-4 draft queue on Magic Online. He shares some comprehensive thoughts about both the picks and the games, and talks us through each step of the way! If you’re looking to improve your Limited game, this is the article series for you!
MTGCast #210 – Baby Powder and Revenge Crabs
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!
Ideas Unbound – Mystical Teaching
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.
One Step Ahead – Legacy Reanimator and Standard Bant
Wednesday, June 9th – In this two-pronged article, Gerry Thompson examines his favored Reanimator deck in Legacy, presenting a new list for the archetype he believes to be the best in the format by far. He then discusses Patrick Chapin’s Next Level Bant strategy in Standard, and suggests a few ways in which the deck could adapt for the current metagame.
Thirst for Knowledge – A Little Standard, A Little Legacy
Wednesday, June 9th – It’s been a busy weekend for a lot of Magic players, hasn’t it? Brian Kibler was over in Japan smashing face to net his third Grand Prix win, and over in Philadelphia the StarCityGames.com Open Weekend attracted over 800 players for some Standard and Legacy action. We have two tournaments’ worth of Standard data as well as a small taste of what the Legacy metagame is moving towards with Grand Prix: Columbus right around the corner.