Friday, January 23rd – After a bout of intensive Extended testing with Patrick Chapin, Manuel Bucher decided on the funky Gifts Faeries deck for Grand Prix: Los Angeles. He posted an excellent 11th-place finish, and today he reveals his sideboarding plans alongside his blow-by-blow tournament report!
Friday, January 23rd – The Extended PTQ season continues apace, and everyone is hunting for the information to earn them a precious blue envelope. David Irvine investigates the lessons taught by the recent Grand Prix results, and what they mean for the key strategies in the metagame.
Friday, January 23rd Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. This week we’re focusing on Conflux, and while I’ve been busy on my interviews with Magic movers and shakers over the past two weeks, over half of the set has made its way onto the interwebs. Not only that, but I’ve got my own personal spoiler direct from Wizards to gush about. Are you ready to see Cliffrunner Behemoth and talk about what might be in the rest of the set? Let’s go!
Friday, January 23rd – With the rise of Faerie Wizards in the metagame, regardless of whose list you’re rocking it with (American or Japanese) it’s easy to note that it has been shaping the metagame around it. Faeries takes a bite out of Elves, stifling that deck choice near to irrelevance at the PTQs we’ve seen so far, and has a reasonable matchup against Zoo as well, so new innovations were necessary to escape the tricksy Wizard tribe and their previously-irrelevant lair at the Riptide Laboratory.
Friday, January 23rd – I appreciated LA weather – or at least not being in the Madison weather – a bit more than usual. Thursday night in LA, we were eating outside in shirtsleeves, while Madison was somewhere around -20 degrees. In LA, I was walking on green grass. Well, in Madison, I could do that, too. Very faded grass – and only if I first scrapped off a couple feet of snow – but we have green grass down there somewhere.
Friday, January 23rd – Luis Scott-Vargas continues his daily Draft series, sharing each pick from a draft in the Magic Online 8-4 queue. He talks us through the difficult decisions in the forums… do you agree with his choices?
Friday, January 23rd – Conflux is coming! Today’s official Conflux preview is big, beefy, and ready to fight… and he’ll bring his friends to battle too! Say hello to… the Mirror-Sigil Sergeant!
Friday, December 23rd – In this exclusive Conflix preview episode of The Magic Soc podcast, there’s full information of the upcoming Knight of the Reliquary!
Thursday, January 22nd – At Grand Prix: Los Angeles, Gerry Thompson put up a good fight but failed to impact on Top 8 play. Today, he takes us through his own opinions on the decks that cracked the final table, plus a couple more that caught his eye. He also supplies a recap report on his own personal LA finish.
Thursday, January 22nd – Patrick “The Innovator” Chapin rocked a Faerie/Gift hybrid deck at Grand Prix: Los Angeles. Today, he discusses the evolution of the metagame post-LA, before sharing some of the more interesting stories from the tournament floor…
Thursday, January 22nd – To the casual observer, the Top 8 of Grand Prix: Los Angeles should have been overflowing with Blue Wizards, Elves, and Zoo… of course, while the Blue Wizards made their mark, both Affinity and U/R Storm rocked the final table. Today, Richard Feldman looks at the three archetypes, and proposes a direction for the ongoing PTQ metagame…
Thursday, January 22nd – Luis Scott-Vargas continues his daily Draft series, sharing each pick from a draft in the Magic Online 8-4 queue. He talks us through the difficult decisions in the forums… do you agree with his choices?
Thursday, January 22nd – I’m back from the Grand Prix and I had a pretty fun time, even though the actual Magic part of the main event was miserable. I had decided on G/B Loam Dredge, in which I had some input, but it was originally designed by Matt Nass. The deck was stone-cold terrible, but Death Cloud, Faeries, and non-TEPS combo are infinitely in your favor, which is about half of the popular decks I expected at the GP.
Thursday, January 22nd – This week has been a rollercoaster ride. First, we swore in a new president. The next day, the company I work for let go a small but significant number of employees; friends and colleagues who are now out looking for work in these terrible economic times. It makes me thankful for all the blessings life’s given me… including the escapism and joy that Magic brings. So let’s get on with it, eh?
Wednesday, January 21st – Another Grand Prix, another win… Luis Scott-Vargas is fast cementing his position at the top of the heap in American and International Magic. He rocked through the Los Angeles field with a strong Blue/Red Mind’s Desire Storm deck, and today he brings us an article that’s one part tournament report and one part primer. Enjoy!
