Lessons from the Road
You didn’t see his name at the top of the standings, but Zac Hill attended Grand Prix: Charlotte with his crew and learned more than a few important lessons along the way.
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The Year in Review and Preview
For a while now, I’ve thought it to be fun and profitable to make predictions and look back on how right or wrong you are. Seeing as how I have this magnificent bully pulpit here at StarCityGames, I thought that this year I’d come out and share my predictions with you. As an added bonus, you get to see how well I did in a few predictions last year and an overall analysis of, well, what went down in 2005.
Gamers and Depression
Depression is a fact of life for many players, and quite a few don’t even know they have it. Everyone from the top pros down to the most casual can be afflicted with this disease. It’s an unfortunate truth that people who have a propensity for this kind of recreation and/or lifestyle seem to also have an extra susceptibility to this illness. The hope is to raise awareness of the symptoms of the disease, and the strategies for beating it.
SCG Daily – The Other Pro Tour
Wizards of the Coast has been making a push to make the Pro Tour more appealing to the average player. They’ve replaced monetary awards with travel vouchers, booked several Pro Tours in highly desirable travel locations (the Louvre, Prague, Hawaii), and began the Magic Hall of Fame. These innovations have been coupled with popular changes to the Pro Tour itself, but have these tactics worked to pull the non-Pro player into the world of the pro? Not as much as Wizards would have liked. Today, Ben unveils a modification to the Pro Tour designed to have huge appeal to Magic audiences around the world, not just the hyper-competitive PTQ players.
The Mill by the Dross: Drafting U/B Control in Ravnica
I keep having success drafting Blue/Black decks online. I guess milling is not sexy enough compared to hasty fliers, Saproling generators or graveyard recursion. Anyway, here’s a draft article for the masses, for those of you keeping your winter nights warm with the magic of Ravnica draft.
From Right Field: Billy’s Turn
Chris is on Christmas vacation, but luckily little Billy Horowitz is here to tell you about his “Ewww, Groz” deck.
SCG Daily – The Truth About Rarity
Some of you have been searching for the definitive answer to the question: Are there some rares that are more rare than other rares?
The answer is… no and yes.
Let me explain.
Recent Vintage Tech
Looking for a cutting edge deck to play? In this article I canvass the Vintage tournament scene and present four decks that I think represent the best Vintage tech from the last month or so. Whether you are a Vintage newbie or an expert, you should take a peek.
The Weekly Guild Build: Beating The Mana Gods
One of the things about being a Christian Magic player is that the instructions are right in the Bible: You shall have no other gods besides Me. But it’s hard to remember that when the Mana Gods are crapping on your forehead.
Deck Fundamentals: Three-and-a-Half Models for Sideboarding
A complete decklist for the rogue deck Flores played in the last Extended PTQ of the season? Check. Detailed discussion as to how the sideboard for that deck was built and why? Check. Detailed discussion on how you should build sideboards for all future decks you build yourself and the thought process behind it? Check indeed. If you play Constructed Magic, this article is practically guaranteed to make you better.
SCG Daily – The Review of the Year in Preview
Ben put forth his predictions for ten trends and events in Magic for the year 2005. Now that we’ve reached the end of the year, how accurate was he? In today’s article, Ben breaks down where he was right, where he was wrong, and throws out a few predictions for 2006.
Sealed Revealed 3: Card Pool Three
Extended season is now over and that means Ravnica Sealed season has arrived! Luckily Craig Stevenson is here for you, with a fresh card pool, Christmas carols, and more bad poetry than you can shake a stick at.
SCG Daily – The Kid’s Perspective: Drafting the Rock
For my last column of the daily series, I didn’t have a subject yet as I hoped something would pop up to me while I was busy doing the others. It didn’t, so I settled for another Limited article, this time about the Golgari guild.
A Short Retort re: Mirage Blue
Ah, maligned Mirage Blue. No one likes you. Well, no one that writes likes you, apparently. What you have been reading about Mirage Limited recently seems either wrong or misguided and I, against my better judgment, am here to set you straight.