Friday, April 9th – By his own standards, Brian Kibler’s season hasn’t been stellar thus far. With only four Pro Tour points gained at this stage, he’s in a reflective mood. Looking back at his performances and tournaments, he suggests reasons why things haven’t been as good as he’d hoped. Do the same reasons apply to you? Read on to find out!
Friday, April 9th – If you’re looking for excitement over Rise of the Eldrazi, you’ve come to the right place! What’s my favorite Magic set of all time? The newest one, and right now that’s ROE. While the prudent thing would be to hold off talking too much about the set until the full spoiler is available, I simply can’t wait that long.
Friday, April 9th – My last article, In Search of Flash: Reanimator in Legacy, concluded with a potential Reanimator list based in part on Steve Sadin’s winning Hulk Flash deck from Grand Prix: Columbus 2007. The list was a merger of Steve’s list and Andres Mullers’ list from Grand Prix: Madrid 2010. The idea was to retain the strengths of both decks as much as possible.
Friday, April 9th – While Jund is still making all the headlines in the Standard press, Naya is proving very popular at high-level events. Antoine Ruel, however, believes the deck has no place in the current metagame. Today, he throws his Jund against his brother’s Naya, to see if there is any merit in the Green/White/Red machine…
Friday, April 9th – The day before leaving I woke up to the following Facebook status: “Brian Kowal is in Kuala Lumpur. As far as I can tell, it’s just a big mall.” I chuckled, after all the tournament site was part of one of Malaysia’s largest megamalls, and during a tournament there is little time or incentive to get out and see anything else. Leave it to Mr. Kowal to make the best tongue-in-cheek quip about any situation.
Thursday, April 8th – With the Extended PTQ season on the horizon for San Juan, I decided I would make it my top priority to find out what deck was the best, and just play that. I feel like I’m a decent enough player to pick up the best deck and do consistently well with it, and especially so if I play with it enough…
Thursday, April 8th – I recently had the distinct pleasure of judging at the StarCityGames.com Open in Orlando, including head judging the Legacy event on Sunday. Here’s a bit of what happened…
Thursday, April 8th – At last weekend’s Grand Prix: Houston, Patrick “The Innovator” Chapin rocked an excellent Grixis Control deck to a high finish. Today, he talks us through the genesis of the deck, through Verhey and Tsumura, and discusses the strategies and sideboarding plans behind the build.
Thursday, April 8th – 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!
Thursday, April 8th – With both of the new Planeswalkers spoiled for Rise of the Eldrazi, Dave takes a look at the two new guys, and talks about a deck featuring an underused Planeswalker from Zendikar.
Thursday, April 8th – Craig Wescoe picked up a fresh decklist the day before Grand Prix: Houston, and ran with it to a respectable Day 2 finish. In fact, he believes the deck is so strong that any other choice for the remainder of the PTQ season would be ridiculous. Today, he shares his play-by-play tournament walkthrough, with sideboarding and strategy tips!
Wednesday, April 7th – While perfect play and mental strength is desirable, it’s impossible to win a Constructed tournament without picking the correct deck to play. Today, Zvi Mowshowitz takes us through a collection of interesting points we should consider when sleeving up our weapon of choice.
Wednesday, April 7th – On this week’s edition of MTGCast, the guys discuss Rise of the Eldrazi, Regionals / Nationals Qualifiers, Standard Polymorph, and more!
Wednesday, April 7th – Fundamentally, the problem with most of Legacy’s aggressive decks is that it is nearly impossible to use creatures with generally combat-oriented abilities to generate favorable interactions against most of Legacy’s combo decks. This reduces the set of interactions those creatures can perform to “reduce target player’s life total by this creature’s power every turn.â€
Wednesday, April 7th – At the time of writing, the Extended season is officially over for me. There is still another PTQ in the Midwest next weekend, but I don’t really have the means to make it to Chicago. I’m actually a little bummed about it too, since I finally found a deck that I felt good about: Congregation Zoo.
