Wednesday, July 22nd – 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!
Wednesday, July 22nd – On Friday night, I ran my quarterly Launch Party, so that the store owner would have a chance to do a little playing of his own. We had a fairly decent turnout, considering the draft was only $10 to play in, and we were giving away various foil promos like we were Mother Freakin’ Teresa.
Wednesday, July 22nd – Abe Sargent builds some fun casual decks that contain the new offerings in M10!
Wednesday, July 22nd – This week’s edition of MTGCast discusses Planechase, the recent crop of high-profile Standard events, Richard Garfield’s latest podcast, and more!
Tuesday, July 21st – With Nationals competitions from Spain, Japan, Australia and more now in the books, the metagame is shaping nicely for this weekend’s American Big Show. Today, Sam examines the Big Four archetypes that are currently in everyone’s sights, and suggests how to approach U.S Nationals with an eye on the final table…
[Editor’s Note – Adrian Sullivan is experiencing technical difficulties with his article. It’ll be here on Wednesday, folks!]
Tuesday, July 21st – With GenCon less than a month away, serious Legacy players should be preparing for what they will be playing in the Legacy World Championships next month. Doug looks at new strategies on the rise, highlighting cards like Vendilion Clique and Natural Order that are becoming much more popular. Get several proven decklists and some new and experimental ones that are worth a look, all in this week’s Legacy’s Allure!
Tuesday, July 21st – In the past seven days, The Starkington Post (Bill Stark’s daily Magic blog) has brought us discussions on the place of White Knight in Kithkin, the M10 print runs, and extensive Standard talk from the one and only Frank Karsten!
Tuesday, July 21st – As the M10 Academy gets into full session, we look at the remaining White cards. For newer players with an enquiring mind, this is your chance to get a foothold on the daunting slopes of Magic strategy.
Tuesday, July 21st – As we wait to see M10’s impact on the Standard format, Dave rolls around through the last weekend’s Prerelease and some more thoughts about our new core set.
Monday, July 20th – So now that I have a couple more M10 drafts under my belt, lemme give you some updates on cards I have reevaluated, and a report of the prerelease and a later draft!
Monday, July 20th – Patrick takes a break from competitive Standard testing to examine the new Extended format coming soon. He looks at a number of high-profile strategies, and updates the relevant builds around their gains and losses from the rotation of new and old sets. He also brings us a bonus Standard decklist, just in time for Nationals!
Monday, July 20th – Perhaps the biggest question for Vintage this summer will be this: what is the best way to design the Mana Drain Time Vault deck? Stephen Menendian, examines a plethora of exciting options for the deck, and suggests builds which he believes will be the stronger contenders in the emerging Vintage metagame.
Monday, July 20th – 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!
Monday, July 20th – Welcome to the first ever Drafting with Balefire Liege! No seriously, I’m doing an article that isn’t about Standard! I’ll be your host today, giving you in-depth reasoning behind each pick (that matters), and hopefully a bit of insight as to what I’m thinking while I take particular cards at each turn of the pack. In the famous words of Super Mario (N64), “Here we gooooo!”
Monday, July 20th – Last week, I provided some tournament-winning Vintage lists to assist in making a testing gauntlet. This weekend, the ICBM Open was held in Chicago, which will undoubtedly give us some updated lists to add to such a gauntlet. While we wait to see what information we can glean from the results of this tournament, I thought it would be interesting to show some detailed testing between Double Dragon Oath and a potential Tezzeret update.
