Thursday, February 3rd – In this week’s edition of Duel With Ruel, we actually get double our Ruel quota as Antoine battles his brother Oli! Today sees Antoine take us through the Extended Scapeshift versus Thopter Depths matchup from the Scapeshift perspective. Join in on Friday for Oli’s take on Thopter Depths.
Wednesday, February 3rd – Hello folks, and welcome back to the article that explores the casual side of Magic-dom. Today I want to simply talk about the All Foil packs that were made by WoTC. Are they worth buying? What else comes in them? Are the tokens foil?
Tuesday, February 2nd – On the Thursday before the prerelease, week 2 of the Armada Games EDH League came up faster than I could prepare for, so I had to shelve my plans to run Lord of Tresserhorn out there (I hope I have time to put him together, completely with Worldwake cards). Keeping with the Grixis theme, I decided to run Thraximundar, who I also hadn’t updated in a while…
Tuesday, February 2nd – With the world of Drafting turning its focus towards the Zendikar / Zendikar / Worldwake format, players are clamoring for the inside scoop on the top playable commons and uncommon in the new set. Today, Sam Black goes beyond such mere card rankings, and investigates precisely how the third pack from Worldwake informs your drafting of Zendikar for packs one and two…
Tuesday, February 2nd – Join Rich Hagon for the Prerelease Money Can’t Buy, as he travels to Wizards HQ in Seattle for Worldwake gaming action.
Tuesday, February 2nd – Inspired by the consistent success of both Merfolk and Zoo in Legacy, Doug presents a deck that attempts to tackle both of those decks by treating them as poles of the metagame. Using the powerful Gifts Ungiven and a relatively new win condition, his deck attempts to wallop the common aggro decks while maintaining flexibility in the face of the diversity of the format. Find out how to build a deck that mixes board control with combo kills in this week’s Legacy’s Allure!
Tuesday, February 2nd – Aggressive Red decks have existed in a multitude of forms for many Magical years… but does a certain Worldwake uncommon creature spell doom for the fans of the flame? Adrian Sullivan, a long-time proponent of Red strategies, investigates a selection of ways to combat the Firewalking menace.
Monday, February 1st – Last week I talked about the new “best” deck in Extended, but time has consistently taught us that something is only the “best” until people want to beat it badly enough. Dredge used to be the big man on campus, back in the day where Breakthrough and Ichorid were legal, but Wizards decided to print plenty of cards that gave the deck hell, and most of which are still around today.
Monday, February 1st – The Ferrett rocked out to his local prerelease, ready to sling a selection of the sweet Worldwake spells. He shares his first impressions on a number of Worldwake cards, be they strong or weak…
Monday, February 1st – Worldwake is finally upon us, and everyone is salivating over the new cards. In today’s edition of So Many Insane Plays, Stephen Menendian brings us his view on the cards that will see play in Magic’s broken format. He also updates his impressive Complete Vintage Checklist.
Monday, February 1st – With the Worldwake prerelease weekend now behind us, Patrick Chapin talks about some of the stronger Constructed cards that appear in the new set. He also mentions a handful of weaker spells, suggesting it may be prudent if you don’t believe the hype…
Monday, February 1st -Thada Adel, Acquisitor is interesting because of its versatility. If you connect early against Workshops, you could steal a Crucible of Worlds to combat Smokestack. Against Oath of Druids and Tezzeret, you can attack Time Vault / Voltaic Key (and even assemble it on your side with just two hits); against The Deck and Tezzeret, you can also remove Tinker targets from the game to cut off that avenue of attack.
Monday, February 1st – I feel watching at a pre-release is often a better way to construct card evaluations than playing in it. After watching people play all day, playing in a flight myself, and talking with people about how the cards they played with performed, I have formulated my take on the common and uncommon rankings for each color.
Friday, January 29th – Prereleases tend to hit a sweet spot in terms of the best atmosphere for a tournament: casual players come to crack open new packs and play around with cards they’ve never played with before, experienced players come to trade or draft (in hopes of accumulating packs for later, private drafts), and we judges get to work our way through the wrenches thrown into our rules knowledge by new mechanics and peculiar interactions.
Friday, January 29th – Earlier this week, Antoine Ruel announced his new matchup-exploring playtest column, and ran the first fifty-game matchup analysis: Faeries versus Zoo. Antoine dissected the games from the Fae perspective; his opponent, Manuel Bucher, brings us the Zoo perspective today…
