Monday, July 21st – Nationals season approaches for most of us, and all non-Aussie eyes are now on Standard. With Eventide in the mix, promising to punch the metagame in the face, it serves us well to look at some of the currently popular strategies in preparation for the Big Show. Today, Patrick recaps all we know about the powerful Elves strategy, and thrusts it into the new Eventide metagame…
Monday, July 21st – In today’s So Many Insane Plays, Stephen takes one final snapshot of the metagame at the time of the so-called Vintage Apocalypse. In this article, Stephen shows how Shadowmoor changed the Vintage metagame just before the DCI pushed the metaphorical button…
Monday, July 21st – Usually when an author does a set review or two they go card by card through an entire color, or maybe through the whole set, but I wanted to take a different approach. Rather than try and evaluate cards in the abstract I wanted to separate some of the wheat from the chaff evaluate in context and see what cards have value to current existing archetypes…
Monday, July 21st – Doug gives us a short and sweet Eventide evaluation, considering some new building-block cards that will have a strong impact on the Legacy format. Will the enemy-colored Cairn cycle fill in for our missing enemy-color fetchlands, bringing Rock decks to the forefront? Will Wake Thrasher make those mighty Merfolk playable? All this, plus a breakdown of last month’s major Legacy events serve to prepare you for the country’s biggest Legacy events in August.
Friday, July 18th – With Eventide knowledge now in the public domain, our attentions turn to the various Constructed formats. Today’s Flores Friday sees perennial deckbuilder Mike Flores share a number of interesting deck sketches that include some of the fresh goodies on offer. Standard, Block Constructed, Extended… whatever your Constructed poison, Mike has the ideas for you!
Friday, July 18th – Eventide is coming to a Constructed format near you… but before the release, there’s the little problem of a weekend of Block Constructed PTQs. With Faeries being the undisputed kings of the castle, perceived wisdom suggests that preboarding your deck to thrash the Fae is the only sensible choice. Today, Adrian throws caution to the wind and brings us a Red deck with the Fae set firmly in its sights.
Friday, July 18th – We have been toiling in what seems to be a degenerate Block Constructed format, living in a world where Faeries wins more than half the PTQs, and attendance is beginning to dip as we grow bored of trying to combat The Faerie Menace. Eventide’s impending release fleshes out the world of Block Constructed, completing the card-pool and either giving the hope of unhorsing the big bully of the format once and for all… or killing it.
Friday, July 18th – Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. This week we’re talking to prerelease players in Nashville, Tennessee on what they think about Eventide, the upcoming prerelease changes, Mythic rares, new favorites and more. Let’s go!
Thursday, July 17th – There are many approaches to deck choice when a large tournament comes a’ knockin’. Some people value the strongest strategy, regardless of their play style preferences. Others, like Gerry Thompson and Patrick Chapin, enjoy leveraging their superior playskill into game wins via strategies that allow their strengths to shine. It seems that Richard Feldman is keen to hop aboard the Blue-spell Bandwagon… he justifies this philosophy within!
Thursday, July 17th – Life’s been a little busy lately, and I was not going to write an article this week. The prerelease was – from my perspective – sort of blah. Then I read both Chatter’s article this week, and the responses. Some people are blathering, and I need to comment. I’ll also sprinkle in a few of the dumb plays I saw last weekend.
Thursday, July 17th – Today’s article is the third installment of The Magic Role-Playing Game. The last article was published back in January, so I felt it was time for another supplement. The Magic RPG is my most popular work. I suspect that it will endure for a long time, and it’s my favorite contribution to the game. I have had people tell me that playing The Magic RPG has changed their Magic gaming experience forever, and I am humbled by this.
Thursday, July 17th – What do a stairway taller than the Empire State Building, a too-long lunch at Long John Silver’s, and a fourth Tarmogoyf have in common? If you, somehow, guessed “Eventide Prerelease,†you’re right!
Wednesday, July 16th – Eventide is here (in theory), and everyone is looking for a Limited edge in the new and upcoming format. Today, Pro Tour Top 8 competitor Marijn Lybaert brings us the thoughts from the Belgian jury, with four top professionals sharing their thoughts on the new common cards on the block…
Wednesday, July 16th – With Eventide fresh in everyone’s minds, and the Constructed applications of the new cards and mechanics slowly filtering through our collective unconsciousness, Benjamin Peebles-Mundy takes a break from the sixty-card formats for a stroll through the forty-card farmlands. He brings us his preliminary rankings for the best commons by color, and shares a few tips and tricks picked up at the prerelease…
Wednesday, July 16th – The Eventide spoiler is out, and ‘tis the season for set reviews. While you’ll be getting the Spike-side view from the Premium gang, and the casual review from some of the free side regulars, I figure I’d go ahead and give my takes on it too.
