Monday, March 9th – Grand Prix: Chicago is now in the books, with attendance figures higher than anyone imagined. Despite failing to make Day 2, Stephen Menendian prepared well for the event, and today’s So Many Insane Plays chronicles this preparation. He outlines his final build, and shares his thoughts on the format in general.
Monday, March 9th – That’s right, folks… the popular “Drafting With” series is back! French uber-pro Olivier Ruel takes us through an 8-4 draft on Magic Online, sharing his picks from 1 to 45, and supplying interesting pick debates and information. For more analysis, visit the forums!
Monday, March 9th – Without doubt, the Pro Tour in Kyoto was one for the history books. Rarely can a better Top 8 have been played out, in the amazing new Arena set for 2009. Gabriel Nassif and Luis Scott-Vargas took us all the way to a five-game thriller, and in this article we go behind some of the numbers to bring you the story of this fabulous weekend of Magic.
Monday, March 9th – Since the Extended PTQ season is now in full swing and Pro Tour: Kyoto has come and gone, I feel it is time to focus solely on the Extended metagame. One deck that has performed surprisingly well lately is Naya Zoo, made famous at GP: LA by Adam Prosak.
Friday, March 6th – Cedric Phillips, the popular yet largely unsuccessful Magic celebrity, finally broke through and pulled off a Sunday performance at Pro Tour: Kyoto. Powered by a thunderous Kithkin deck designed in conjunction with Charles Gindy, Ced rode his skill and his luck through a field of the world’s best players. This is his story…
Friday, March 6th – Manuel Bucher entered Pro Tour: Kyoto with high hopes. As part of the Chapin/Nassif super team, he felt his deck was tricked out to handle all comers. Sadly, illness and some bad decisions saw him missing Day 2… here is his analysis of his Standard choices, and a brief tournament report on his performance.
Friday, March 6th – Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. This week we’re going to be taking a look at the results from Pro Tour: Kyoto where Gabriel Nassif took home the top prize courtesy of Patrick Chapin and crew’s Five-Color Control list, and I snagged an exclusive interview. We got big news on next year’s Magic Cruise, what Legacy looks like for Grand Prix: Chicago, and more. Let’s go!
Friday, March 6th – While I would be content to talk about playing Faeries in Extended till I am blue in the face, another near-miss at a Top 8 cannot hardly compare to the Pro Tour this past weekend in Kyoto…
Friday, March 6th – In the forum thread to my column last week, a poster asked if I’d go into more details on the decisions I made when assembling my Ancient Ziggurat deck for the StarCityGames.com $5000 Standard Open. Given that another Ziggurat deck just made a huge splash in Kyoto, being pretty much the only new and innovative deck to come out of the tournament, I figured it would be worthwhile going over the choices I made.
Thursday, March 5th – Now that the Pro Tour is mixed-format discipline, specific format specialists such as Quentin Martin are opening their minds to the other side of the game (whatever it may be). Today, Quentin examines a few of the Standard decks that caught his eye from Kyoto. The first? Black/White Tokens…
Thursday, March 5th – Grand Prix: Chicago kicks Legacy into firm focus weekend, and Richard Feldman is ready. He believes that Dredge, that old graveyard warhorse, is the most powerful strategy in the format. In today’s Deep Analysis, he breaks down his own build of what he believes is a format-warping archetype. Some of the inclusions – and, more significantly, the omissions – may raise a few eyebrows…
Thursday, March 5th – Each action made in a game of Magic has one simple principle behind it: in some way or another it serves to further its controller’s course of victory. Whenever your opponent does something during a game, he or she is taking that action because they believe it will ultimately help them achieve victory. Your opponent has a plan in their mind, and “all†you have to do is figure out what it is.
Thursday, March 5th– In this week’s Unlocking Legacy, Adam tells us a little about what excites him about GP Chicago, and a lot about what you can expect. If you’re unfamiliar with the Legacy format, be sure to look here first, and make sure you don’t get surprised by some strange card interactions!
Thursday, March 5th – My name is Nicholas, and I’m an Elder Dragon Highlander junkie. I know that I mentioned an article about making tournaments more fun… but this article is not that article. However, playing EDH at a tournament is guaranteed to make it more fun, so I hope you’ll accept this tangential compromise.
Thursday, March 5th – Last week, I looked at the changes in core sets on a broad level. Today, I want to crunch some numbers with Constructed in mind. Let’s see whether the new core set and rotation policies help or hurt Constructed.
