Monday, May 19th – Designing competitive decks is difficult. It requires building something better or at least as good as the best decks in any given format. The best decks represent the gold standard of which any new deck aspires to be. These decks can provide a wealth of information about how to build decks and why their designs work.
Friday, May 16th – Come join Mike in the madcap mathematical adventure that we call metagaming. Why is The Basic Test of Metagaming Competence the most useful article in modeling metagaming that you will ever read? Because just one paragraph in you may realize that everything you ever thought about metagaming was a lie… Or at least a gross series of very sad misunderstandings. And we can prove it. A must read.
Friday, May 16th – With the data from the StarCityGames.com Mega-Magic Weekend pointing to a cold winter of Faerie dominance, Adrian looks at the various Fae builds from the two Top 8s in Richmond in order to discern the direction of the deck. Come Hollywood, will the Blue/Black flying menace be victorious?
Friday, May 16th – Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. In this week’s episode we talk about the fallout from the Mega-Magic Weekend in Richmond. What happened and didn’t happen on Saturday, just what in the hell we’re going to do about the Faerie problem, and how I ended up in third place on Sunday. Let’s go!
Friday, May 16th – As the astute reader would know, I did in fact not win either day of the Star City Games mega-weekend Standard events this weekend… after all, the tag-line “By Sean McKeown†will tell you that just by not being “By Alex Bertoncini,†or as the real pessimists in the forums will likely latch onto, just because the tag-line says “By Sean McKeown.â€
Thursday, May 15th – Last week, Richard ended his article with a midrange beatdown deck for Standard, called The Siege. It stirred up discussion in the forums, and so today Richard takes a closer look at the design and tunes up the list based on advice and ideas accumulated over the past seven days…
Thursday, May 15th – With the shadow of Pro Tour: Hollywood breathing down out necks, it’s time to get serious with the Standard metagame. Today’s Down And Dirty sees Kyle Sanchez take us through the highs and lows of the standout decklists hailing from last weekend’s Star City Games Mega-Magic Weekend, How will results there impact the upcoming Pro Tour?
Thursday, May 15th – I’m feeling old. I was checking my list of published articles and noticed that my first Magic-related articles were published almost a decade ago. That’s a perfect excuse to talk about where Magic is at, and what it is doing. A lot has changed – and a lot has stayed the same.
Thursday, May 15th – A Mono-Green aggro player somewhere down in the cockles of his heart, last week Mr. Tribally Thrifty put together a budget Mono-Green aggro deck for play at the FNM level. What happened? Did the deck succeed or fail?
Thursday, May 15th – Bonjour mes amis! Welcome to the next entry in the journal of all things casual. I am your scribe, bringing you the poems and diatribes of Magic for the casual crowd. As promised in previous articles, today I am going to create several decks around Shadowmoor cards.
Wednesday, May 14th – With the eyes of the world set firmly on Standard and the upcoming Pro Tour: Hollywood, Luis Scott-Vargas takes a preliminary look at the next important Constructed format: Lorwyn Block Constructed. He offers his thoughts on the all-conquering Faeries, and posits that, in Block at least, they may not be as strong as you might think…
Wednesday, May 14th – Last weekend, Benjamin Peebles-Mundy sleeved up his trusty Reveillark deck and braved the fierce Standard competition on both days of the StarCityGames.com Mega-Magic Weekend. While he didn’t fare well on Day 2, on Day 2 he came agonizingly close to the money. Today’s Peebles Primers sees BPM take us through the tournaments, offering sage advice on the position of Reveillark Combo in the Faeries metagame…
Wednesday, May 14th – Crying infants in airplane cabins. The Nickelback song “Rock Star.†Single-ply toilet paper. Economic libertarians. Rush-hour horn-honkers. I hate all of those things, but absolutely none of them rile my passions and inflame my innermost ire like the Champion trigger on a Mistbind Clique.
Wednesday, May 14th – I had a good time at this weekend’s Magic extravaganza, the Star City Mega-Magic Weekend. For those of you who did come out and were kind enough to come up and introduce yourselves and let me know you enjoyed my column, I really appreciate it. Nothing feels better than meeting you all face to face and hearing positive feedback. You all rock!
Tuesday, May 13th – With Shadowmoor draft being the current Limited format of choice, Nick Eisel has been experimenting with some more off-the-wall strategies in order to gain an edge on the field. One of his more successful strategies involves Power of Fire and everyone’s favorite untapper, Pili-Pala…
