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Wednesday, June 30th – Lands like Rupture Spire, the tri-color taps from Shards, the Refuges, and Evolving Wilds have all done a lot for your multicolor manabase. We have tap lands that become creatures, and older cards like lairs and the Karoo lands from Ravnica block. There are tons of these cheap options available when it comes time to make sure you have your colors. However, what do you do when you don’t need to add special lands in order to have the right colors?

Tuesday, June 29th – We see an EDH game as a group effort, and this is a mindset that I understand might be completely alien to otherwise competitive players. Our intention is to make things so that the primary goal isn’t ‘winning,’ as it’s traditionally defined, it’s ‘having a great time together.’ Again, I get the idea that “I came to win” is deeply engrained in the way we compete.

Tuesday, June 29th – Not one, but two articles this week from Rich. One is about the Deck Builder’s Toolkit. The other… well, a bit less about Magic, and a bit more about life and death.

Tuesday, June 29th – How do you accept failure? How do you improve on your own mistakes? How do you manage frustration? These are difficult issues to address, and ultimately my inability to accept failure was the reason I lost interest in playing the game some years ago. If I go to an event and my chances on having fun depend on the result, then it’s likely I’ll return home feeling miserable far too often.

Tuesday, June 29th – M10 was a fantastic set in terms of power level for Standard as well as being an enjoyable in the Limited environment, but I was skeptical as to whether or not M11 would be able to stack up. After all, some of the novelty of M10 would surely have to wear off by now for M11, but Wizards is doing enough new things with these revamped Core Sets to keep things interesting.

Monday, June 28th – If you’ve been to a competitive event before, no doubt you’ve heard people complain. You probably have even done it yourself. Especially in recent formats with swingy strategies and mechanics, there are some times you can legitimately complain. If you don’t have the right draw to combat theirs, you’re just going to lose and there’s nothing you could have done about it. Or is there?