Tuesday, July 8th – With Faeries, Kithkin, and Five-Color Control ruling the roost in Lorwyn / Shadowmoor Block Constructed, it takes an uncommon mind to come up with something new. Today, with the help of a few friends, Marijn Lybaert brings us two fresh decks based on the Quick n’ Toast framework: Swans on Toast and Toasted Trees! He also presents what he believes to be the definitive White Weenie deck…
Tuesday, July 8th – No other deck is even close to Faeries in terms or performance or numbers making Top 8s every week. I know, you’ve been hearing this for the last few weeks, but it really needs to be understood. If you aren’t playing Faeries, you need a damn good reason why.
Tuesday, July 8th – As we enter July and the Summer Series plus turbo-charged Nationals kick into high gear, Rich takes a long hard look at the contenders, the pretenders, and the return to senders. Which is as close as you’re getting to an Elvis joke this week.
Tuesday, July 8th – Regionals has always been somewhat of a hurdle in the Magic season. And by hurdle, I mean that it is a flat out Great Wall of China, at least for me. The weather is hot and muggy, and the tournament always brings out tons of people, making for logistical and rulings hell. Things have actually gotten better recently, but let’s take a look back through the past few years of Regionals…
Monday, July 7th – Last week, Patrick “The Innovator” Chapin brought us his personal pick for the best deck in Lorwyn / Shadowmoor Block Constructed: Solar Flare revisited! This week, he puts his money where his mouth is and runs the deck in a local PTQ. While he didn’t quite make the final table, he still believes the deck to be the most powerful choice in the metagame…
Monday, July 7th – In Today’s ‘Insane Plays,’ Stephen faces Vintage master, Rich Shay, to test the Control Slaver mirror. Watch Stephen battle Rich Shay, play-by-play, through a set of five games as he learns the ins and outs of playing in the New Vintage. This is not to be missed!
Monday, July 7th – A lot of things go into the creation of a successful Magic player. For example, countless hours of preparation and effort, mental toughness, and pure mathematical skill all take part. But no one thing has been nailed down as the singular most important deciding factor when it comes to what makes a person a ‘success’ at Magic…
Monday, July 7th – Decks you get from the Internet are built and tweaked already. When you try to metagame them you may be doing more harm than good. Read on, and get some tips on making the deck better, not worse.
Friday, July 4th – You read that right, folks… in the Faerie-heavy Block Constructed metagame, Mike Flores’s Little Kid Green/White deck took home a Blue Envelope! Sadly for Mike, the envelope in question wasn’t addressed to him, but the deck has earned its wings nonetheless. Today’s Flores Friday sees Mike update the build for future battles, and the PTQ-winning pilot weighs in with his thoughts on the metagame…
Friday, July 4th – With Faeries dominating the Block Constructed PTQ scene, Adrian Sullivan is reeling rather discouraged. However, there is room for innovation – the Green/Black Assassin deck by Michael Pinnegar proves this, and the deck’s designer pipes up with his thoughts on the metagame. Adrian also brings us his personal philosophy on success in the format…
Friday, July 4th – Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. This week we’re going to recount the uplifting and saddening tale of the Richie Proffitt Memorial Tournament, take a look at my Exclusive Eventide Preview card, and check out the rest of the latest Eventide spoilers. Let’s go! Warning: Contains Spoilers.
Friday, July 4th – This one’s going to be a little bit… odd. At the moment, I have laryngitis, and so days and days worth of sarcasm are bottling up inside because I cannot actually croak the jokes that are on my mind. I was thinking about Block Constructed and some of the problems I have seen play out, and a certain deck title of John F. Rizzo’s struck me as an apt description of where it was my mind was thinking.
Thursday, July 3rd – Block Constructed appears to be blighted with that most dangerous of Magical animal – the 800lb Elephant in the Room. This Elephant, as we know, is Blue, and Black, and has wings. Yes. The Faeries matchup is the first port of call for anyone looking to navigate the choppy seas of Block Constructed. Can Richard’s Triple Tribe deck be tweaked to take down the Fae? Read on to find out!
Thursday, July 3rd – We are moving into Nationals season, and Grand Prix: Buenos Aires was last weekend. So was the Richie Proffitt Memorial Tournament. Standard is – will be, shortly – a widely played format online and at FNM (except around Madison, unfortunately), so people care about it. I do, too.
Thursday, July 3rd – It’s the hot new fad. Everyone’s doing it. You know you want to. A little taste can’t hurt you. That’s what they say, and the next thing you know, you’re trying to figure out how to build your own giant stack of hundreds of Magic cards with which to draft.
