Thursday, October 9th – I meandered down to Richmond Comix Friday for FNM and got my Shards of Alara draft on… I thought the actual drafting went really well. First pack I cracked open, looked at the bottom card and saw it was a foil rare Ultimatum… unfortunately, it was Clarion Ultimatum. I moved on and saw another Ultimatum, this one of the Titanic variety. Win the Game for seven mana? Sure, I’ll bite!
Thursday, October 9th – You know the saying. Last week, after the prerelease fiasco and so forth, I literally could not write anything worth saying. I could spew venom like an encounter-level 30 forums troll, but I had nothing useful to say. I can write coherently, and civilly, now… I hope.
Wednesday, October 8th – Kyle brings us a two-pronged article today… first, he takes us through some of the more powerful cards in the adolescent Standard metagame, both from sets past and sets present. Next, he takes a look at the latest iteration of the Stokin’ Tokens deck, and examines a number of interesting builds…
Wednesday, October 8th – With a Pro Tour Qualifier season underway, and following a year off from authentic high-level Sealed play, getting your build right is crucial if you want to reach the Top 8. Drawing on his experiences of watching and playing at Pre-Release and Release events, Rich brings you some strategy for the Improvers out there…
Wednesday, October 8th – While Dave may not have repeated his unbeaten streak at the Shards of Alara Launch Party this past weekend, he did find a little rare that inspired him to build a couple of… Titanic decks.
Wednesday, October 8th – Ad Nauseam is the newest spell to impact the development of Legacy storm combo. Its ability to draw an undetermined number cards opens up the potential that storm combo finally has the card it needs to become the best deck in the format. All the other card advantage spells that have seen play in storm decks either have limits on the number of cards they can draw.
Wednesday, October 8th – Following up last week’s article, Ben takes a look at eight different Foreign Magic Misprints, Rarities and Oddities throughout Magic’s history. From rules cards to magazine inserts, and from Forest Plains to Serra Elementals, find out some of the weirdest foreign cards out there!
Tuesday, October 7th – The Limited PTQ season is upon us, and Shards of Alara is proving a tricky nut to crack. Gerry Thompson, qualified for the Pro Tour but hunting down a plane ticket, attended a local PTQ and rocked himself into the Top 8 on the back of a great cardpool and some tasty play. He shares his story today, with some interesting tips and tricks on the new Shards of Alara Sealed format…
Tuesday, October 7th – When a new base set rotates into Standard, crafty deckbuilders retreat to their workshops to find fun and forceful strategies able to hobble the emerging metagame. Benjamin Peebles-Mundy has taken quite a shine to a certain 5/5 multicolor artifact, and today’s Peebles Primers investigates the fruits of his experimentation. Do we have a new contender on our hands?
Tuesday, October 7th – Today we look into the futures of some non-Zoo and non-Affinity aggro decks that could still potentially thrive in today’s quick Extended. Much has already been written about both of these decks in their previous iterations, and the metagame hasn’t formed enough to spend page upon page over some tiny changes and the no-brainer Shards additions.
Tuesday, October 7th – The Shard deck construction rule for the Launch Party came and went without incident. I’m sure that a story will trickle in from some corner of the world where a careless player received a game loss for building outside a Shard, but my LP wasn’t going to be that story.
Monday, October 6th – I’m back to writing about Limited for once, because I still do love it – and I did a little drafting and sealed play this weekend to take Shards for a spin. So let’s talk about the cards that were better than they looked… And the cards that were worse!
Monday, October 6th – With seven sets leaving Extended, some of the most powerful decks in the format’s history have been neutered beyond repair. Or have they? Today’s Innovations sees Patrick Chapin take a look at a new brand of TEPS Combo, a strategy he claims is still a clear turn faster than anything Aggro has to offer…
Monday, October 6th – White is Magic’s perennial whipping boy… and Vintage is the format that wields the biggest whip. In metagames past, Vintage players were conditioned to skim the White sweetmeats in their rush to get to the Blue cards. Can Meandeck’s Parfait Ambush deck convince players that White is Right? Read on to find out!
Monday, October 6th – The first PTQ of the Kyoto season was this past Saturday (at the time you are reading this, at least), and I’ve noticed a few things about the Shards Sealed format. Chief among them is that it really doesn’t matter how bad your pool is, if you open a Mythic Creature you almost can’t help but win.
