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Tuesday, February 24th – A lot of players talk in the forums about how decks by authors like Chapin, GerryT, and myself are light on ‘win conditions.’ Without a big tap-out fatty to end the game quickly, they worry they won’t be able to finish their matches on time. This sentiment isn’t entirely unreasonable, but there are so many ways to solve the problem of time limits without having to resort to making your deck worse. This article will outline a few of them.

Tuesday, February 24th – Get your card marked – not your cards marked, because that would be cheating – for Pro Tour: Kyoto, as Rich brings you a ton of background on the names you’ll be hearing at the top tables all next week.

Tuesday, February 24th – The announcement of Magic 2010 on Monday probably surprised everyone. What does it mean for budget players? And is it Portal 4?

Monday, February 23rd – For every block since Masques, there’s been a “pre-made” deck lurking in the wings for you. Take Shards of Alara, where Wizards practically screamed, “You can build a Shard deck, you know!” and then handed you a list of all the Jund cards that were guaranteed to work together. And as we start in on Kamigawa and Mirrodin, with arguably some of the heaviest mechanics-oriented cards around, we now have to think about whole mechanics.

Monday, February 23rd – In today’s edition of The Magic Sock podcast, there’s a run-through of the top commons from Conflux, a Standard Domain deck challenge, a nostalgic look back at Dissension, and much more!

Friday, February 20th – Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. This week I’m back in full force and bringing you a full half hour of goodness, everything from bits and pieces from talks with Mike Turian, Patrick Chapin and myself, interviews with designer Ken Nagle and deckbuilder Brian Kowal, footage of beautiful Progreso, Mexico and their Mayan Ruins and much more.