In preparation for Pro Tour: Geneva, Tiago Chan joined up with Frank Karsten and a slew of famous Dutch professionals, and they drafted up a storm. Tiago shares four of those drafts today, looking at the completed decklists, highlighting tricky picks, and explaining the processes behind his decision to force U/W control decks when the Big Day finally came…
Today we welcome our newest columnist; Benjamin Peebles-Mundy! Ben will be bringing us weekly primers about a variety of Constructed decks across a number of formats… and he’ll also touch on Limited too. Today’s article concerns Mono Green Aggro in Standard, a deck that is currently rocking the online metagame. Welcome aboard, BPM!
Rich continues his excellent series of Time Spiral Draft walkthroughs, presenting each pick as it happened and highlighting each card chosen. He shares his final decklist, and gives us a brief overview of his results and processes. As usual, for more detailed draft deconstruction, come visit us in the forums!
Abe takes us through the personalities that appear in Portal Three Kingdoms, and highlights a host of fine casual all-stars for your next multiplayer melee. Having trouble distinguishing your Zhang Liao from your Zhang Jiao, or your Lu Bei from your Lu Bu? Abe can help!
After failing to make Day 2 at Pro Tour: Geneva, Zac returns to the Constructed game, with an eye on qualification for Yokohama. Today’s Chatter of the Squirrel concludes the Razormane Masticore / Triskelavus debate, and takes a fresh look at a couple of powerful Extended decks that have posted Top 8 results.
Whenever a new set comes out, a crop of idiots — generally speaking — will come out and claim that several cards in the set need to be banned. Without Fail. I kid you not, we had people saying this about Coldsnap and Guildpact. This is working on the John Edwards model: You can guess wrong as many times as you like, provided you really make a noise about when you guess right.
Kenji Tsumura, one of the greatest players ever to pick up a card, brings us his take on the Extended metagame. Pro Tour Qualifier season is in full swing, and Kenji’s take on U/W Control looks strong enough to capture the Blue Envelope time and time again. Is this the build that will take you to Pro Tour glory? Read on to find out!
In this article, Dan surveys 4-color Landstill and the Ill-Gotten Gains-based storm combo deck “IGGy Pop” in Legacy, concluding with an interview with the inventor of Angel Stompy, Patrick Maeder, better known around the Internet as GodzillA.
Pro Tour: Geneva was Raphael Levy’s fiftieth consecutive Pro Tour appearence. Unfortunately for Raph, he failed to set the world alight and make Top 8… however, his solid money finish was an admirable start to his personal quest for Player of the Year. In this illuminating article, Raph takes us through the thorny choices he made in each of his five TTP drafts, and gives us an overview of his entire performance.
With Jeroen Remie returning to PTQ play, the Ask The Drama talk this week concentrates on Extended. Mr Remie talks about the stronger cards in the format, the proper place for Destructive Flow, whether Extirpate will hate out the graveyard-based decks, and the future for Boros Deck Wins. For those players out there with no Extended aspirations, Jeroen takes a look at some troublesome draft decks, and imparts a hefty dose of Limited wisdom.
Rich continues his excellent series of Time Spiral Draft walkthroughs, presenting each pick as it happened and highlighting each card chosen. He shares his final decklist, and gives us a brief overview of his results and processes. As usual, for more detailed draft deconstruction, come visit us in the forums!
Blisterguy brings us the peaks and troughs of the Magic Online Standard and Extended Premier Event metagame. Sadly, it’s blisterguy’s last article for the Magic Online Musings column… he explains why within. Plus, there’s a few words from the New Guy, who’ll be taking over from next Wednesday. Intrigued? Then read on!
Josh under-performed at his Extended PTQ this past weekend… even so, the insight he gained from a 150-person tournament is invaluable for those with PTQs still to attend. Today’s Deconstructing Constructed takes a look at the most popular decks that appeared that day, and brings us an interesting look at the undervalued Locket Combo deck…
Rivien has a crack at creating a precon deck, and comes up with a spicy mono-Green number capable of creating an army of unstoppable monsters! He also touches upon the cost of older cards on Magic Online, what it means to the online metagame, and urges everyone to make their voices of dissension heard!
Beast Attack, Jamie’s pet Mono-Green Extended deck, continues to bring the online beats… powered by Greenseeker, of all things. Is this deck viable? Can it smash all comers at your PTQ? Is Jamie an underground deckbuilding genius? The jury is out on those questions, but one thing is certain… Mr Wakefield’s writing rocks our socks.
