Monday, April 6th – Recently, a friend of mine emailed me saying “I won my local PTQ with Ranger Zoo.†I was intrigued. I had seen Bill Stark’s Naya Zoo list with Ranger of Eos, and just brushed it off as a mediocre and slower version of Naya Burn. However, this friend of mine, whose opinion I greatly respect, basically just wrecked an entire PTQ without losing a single match.
Monday, April 6th – Sorry, Extended, but it turns out that I’m just not that into you. No, it’s not you – it’s me. I know we started off on the right path back in January, but things cooled off from there. I just never got felt… comfortable around you. I felt like I couldn’t be myself…
Monday, April 6th – With previews starting to sneak in, it looks an old aggro deck is set to pick up a few interesting weapons. Will Alara Reborn bring Blightning up to Tier 1 status? And can a budget version produce results?
Friday, April 3rd – In this week’s Reflecting Ruel, Olivier takes a look at the forty-card game. Specifically, he describes the various collections of second-tier cards (basically everything other than creatures and removal). While there are benefits to running such spells, there are drawbacks too… Olivier reveals all!
Friday, April 3rd – Brian Kibler, one of the game’s Elder Statesmen, had fallen from the lofty heights in recent years. However, as we know, that Magic fire forever burns bone-deep. With a Pro Tour in Hawaii, he picked up the cards once more. In our last look at Extended as the PTQ season dwindles, Brian shares his Loam deck from a successful attempt to pick up a Blue Envelope. If you’ve still got a PTQ left, maybe this is the deck for you…
Friday, April 3rd – Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. This week we’re taking a look at Standard via the results from the recent StarCityGames.com $5000 Standard Open in Indianapolis, where a whopping 432 players duked it out, and still Five-Color Control comes out on top there and in the Cruise Qualifier. We’ll also take a look at the latest Alara Reborn spoilers beginning to trickle out amongst us and what Wizards has in store for us in just a few weeks. Let’s go!
Friday, April 3rd – With the Extended season near to wrapping up, my love affair with the Faerie Wizards continues, as does the madcap plan of racing around from qualifier to qualifier. Rather than chase old information, I thought it would be more interesting if I were to take a look at Shards Block Constructed…
Friday, April 3rd – Soon the collective attention of Magic columnists will turn to Standard, and likely stay there for quite a while since there is going to be a crush of Standard events in the next several months. Regionals is fast approaching, about a month and a half away, and we’ve also got the Qualifier season for Pro Tour: Austin starting in May, and that’s Standard too.
Thursday, April 2nd – In the past seven days, The Starkington Post (Bill Stark’s daily Magic blog) has brought us some handy tips on how to learn from loss (by Justin Googs), a look at Naya Zoo in Extended, a Top 8 PTQ report, updates on the ongoing Grand Prix: Chicago theft story, and much more!
Thursday, April 2nd – In the first of a new weekly column, Brazil’s finest Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa takes us through a hectic five weeks of Magic played in many exotic locations across the world. He also gives us a definitive examination of his current favorite deck, Standard Faeries. Welcome aboard, PV!
Thursday, April 2nd – A while back, Sam Stoddard provided us with a grand design on how to drive ourselves toward success: The Fearless Magical Inventory. Today, Richard Feldman examines his own list of Magical failings in an attempt to demonstrate how such things can be eliminated. Do you recognize yourself in Richard’s list?
Thursday, April 2nd – I believe having a good spell is often worth the tradeoff of having a worse creature. Spells are hidden information that strong players can use to obtain card advantage and outplay opponents. I’m okay with casting a Dreg Reaver instead of a Mosstodon on turn 5 if it means I get a Resounding Roar in my deck.
Thursday, April 2nd – This weekend was the big one: StarCityGames.com’s $5000 Standard Open in Indianapolis. I think it’s clear from the GPs in the Midwest over the last few years that we have a hotspot right here for Magic attendance (GP: Chicago, Indianapolis, and Columbus). Trying not to get carried away with things, I thought a conservative estimate would be 400+ as I was getting ready to leave on Friday afternoon…
Thursday, April 2nd – For the first time in a long time, I know enough about a format to be able to write a serious, tech-laden article. However, by the time you read this, the Nix Tix queues will be gone, and the sealed Swiss probably as well. In other words, I’m going to concentrate on the StarCityGames.com $5000 Standard Open.
Wednesday, April 1st – In today’s Positive EV, Manuel Bucher touches on three topics of particular importance. The first section discusses sideboarding against a deck and player rather than an archetype; the second sees Manuel share two off-the-radar Extended lists for those still gunning for Hawaii. Finally, there’s talk on how Alara Reborn could reshape Quick n’ Toast… in theory.
