Wednesday, March 26th – The current Standard metagame is awash with options. One limiting factor, however, is the prevalence of a two-mana enchantment that spews a 1/1 flyer each turn. After a brief dalliance with a Teachings deck, LSV picked up a deck from the desk of Gerry Thompson and friends. While it looks familiar, it operates on a different level… and it plays like a dream. Intrigued? Then read on!
Wednesday, March 26th – If you check the Top 8s of Standard events both online and in real life, you’ll soon see that Faeries is the deck to beat. One way of taking down the flying menace is through copious use of Islandwalkers. Enter Merfolk, one of the more under-appreciated tribes in Lorwyn Constructed. BPM takes us through his own brand of Merfolk goodness, examining an archetype that is definitely on the rise.
Wednesday, March 26th – That’s right, folks… Rich Hoaen is back! The renowned Canadian Limited maestro returns to bring us a Lorwyn/Lorwyn/Morningtide draft each day from the 8-4 queues of Magic Online. He takes us through each pick, from 1 to 45, and shares his thoughts on the draft and the games in both the article and the forums. Welcome back, Rich!
Wednesday, March 26th – As part of the last banned and restricted list update, Wizards announced a change to the Extended rotation. Previously, Extended was to lose three years worth of sets every three years. Under that policy, come November, everything before Mirrodin block was set to leave the format. That would have been a huge change…
Wednesday, March 26th – My life is full-tilt boogie busy, but I’ve been making an effort lately to play in more sanctioned tournaments, for all the usual reasons – it’s fun, it helps keep my play skills from atrophying further, and gives me at least semi-relevant stuff to write about. One side benefit I was looking forward to was an increase in the number of Magic Player Reward cards I’d get mailed to me…
Wednesday, March 26th – I’m generally garbage at teaching anything, and Magic’s among the most complicated things you can teach. I’d tried my hand at instruction before, to less than successful results. The rules of Magic have been etched so deeply into my cognition that it’s hard sometimes to isolate why some things work the way that they do.
Tuesday, March 25th – As you can see below, we’re maxing out the LLM walkthrough love with the return of Drafting With Rich. Of course, this doesn’t mean we’ve no more room for other Limited opinions… Today’s Limited Lessons sees Nick walk us through an 8-4 draft of his own, opting for the road less traveled when it comes to conventional archetypes: Black/Red Giants.
Tuesday, March 25th – Extended season is winding down, and PTQ players have likely chosen their deck of choice for this coming weekend. Of course, not all preparation is flawless… with mere days until the Last Chance Saloon opens its doors, those folk requiring a change of deck direction could do worse than turn their eyes to Domain Zoo. Tom LaPille walks us through the details…
Tuesday, March 25th – Right now, Standard on Magic Online, at least as far as 8-mans go, looks to be 90% composed of four specific decks: Faeries, Elves, Red Deck Wins, and U/W Reveillark take up a huge portion of every single one I enter. Perhaps this will change as the high cost of Morningtide cards has dropped down to the normal Magic Online flow, i.e. anything that isn’t utterly ridiculous costs between 1-3 tickets.
Tuesday, March 25th – That’s right, folks… Rich Hoaen is back! The renowned Canadian Limited maestro returns to bring us a Lorwyn/Lorwyn/Morningtide draft each day from the 8-4 queues of Magic Online. He takes us through each pick, from 1 to 45, and shares his thoughts on the draft and the games in both the article and the forums. Welcome back, Rich!
Tuesday, March 25th – In a bizarrely complementary companion piece to last week’s efficiently-titled ‘Why?’ Rich Hagon returns with every answer you could possibly need. Except the one about the Bahrainian Oil Crisis of 1736. And the winner of Pro Tour: Hollywood. But every other question. Seriously.
Tuesday, March 25th – In the last few weeks, a wealth of information has exploded onto the Magic scene. Unfortunately, not much of this is Legacy info. Fortunately, it’s Extended info, and never before have two formats resembled each other as much as Legacy and Extended do this season. I firmly believe that the parallels between the two formats can be used to uncover technology that may have been overlooked by the people focusing on one format, but not the other.
Monday, March 24th – A bunch of Merfolk that like to tap. A bunch of very nice things to tap them. But how can all of that tap-happy synergistic work compare with a crazy set of rares in the opponent’s hand?
Monday, March 24th – After many months of intense Magical preparation, today’s Innovations sees Patrick Chapin letting his hair down and waxing poetic. He brings us his thoughts on Standard, shares an amusing story or two, and makes a few predictions about the upcoming Pro Tour: Hollywood…
Monday, March 24th – A hearty congratulations is in order for Ryohei Masuno and Taischi Fujimoto who both managed to navigate through a difficult two days of Japanese GP competition with Elf decks. That said, they weren’t really playing Elf decks… I’ll show you an Elf deck!
