The Unofficial 2005 Worlds Survival Guide
Seasoned Japan veteran Eli Kaplan tells you everything you absolutely need to know about Worlds in Yokohama, except for what to play and how to play it.
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SCG Daily: From Right Field — Land, Ho!
So, if Tuesday was all about the best pieces of non-Kev Walker art in Extended-legal sets, why weren’t there any land cards? Because I truly feel that lands need to be looked at separately. Magic is an active game (yes, ever against people playing Blue). A card’s art tends to reflect its mechanic in some way which means the art typically depicts some activity or shows a creature of some sort. Land cards, though, are more like still lifes.
Diary of a Ravnica Drafter – The Rules of Ravnica Draft
Like many of you, Nick has been dreaming about cards games lately, and after a great deal of play with The City of Guilds, he’s come up witha set of rules for Limited play that you would do well to know, even if you don’t follow them. What’s the best card in the set for Limited? The best guild in draft? The answers to these questions and more are but a click away.
Down and Back Again: A Pro Tour LA Report
How’d Noah’s Los Angeles go? Well, he scrubbed out of the Pro Tour, nearly got DQ’d, did some Pro Tour Feature Match coverage, watched Zvi Mowshowitz pick up babes, ate at Fogo De Chao, was assaulted by zombies in downtown LA, and got to ride rollercoasters. If you are a fan of the lost art of tournament reports, you cannot miss this one.
The Complete Mind’s Desire Strategy Guide
From a purely strategic point of view, there are a good many reasons to play Desire at your next Extended tournament. The first (and probably best) reason is because the deck is just hard to play against unless your opponent has dedicated a large amount of time to it — which, given that you’re at a PTQ, is doubtful. So let me walk you through the intricacies of the deck that got me all the way to the Top 4 at Los Angeles.
SCG Daily – From Right Field: The Best of the Worst and the Worst of the Best
I want to be perfectly clear on one point. I am most certainly not saying that the art on these cards is awful in and of itself. Magic has come a long, long way from the days of Reverse Polarity (“Worst. Magic art. Ever.”) and Reverse Damage. Nearly every card from Tempest on and especially from Invasion on has been a true joy to look at (Cepahlids aside). However, some of the art, well, it didn’t quite work on the card.
Back With Black
Eternal fan favorite Geordie’s back — again! — this time packing a new deck that he thinks can clean house against Flores Blue and Combo. If you’re sick to death of Hinder and Keiga, he’s got a deck packing a card that you’ll never expect. No, really, you won’t expect it.
Magical Hack: A Look At Legacy
In the forums, someone told me that I was obsessed with Cabal Therapy in my article on Extended… But of the most-played cards at the Pro Tour, Therapy finished behind only Forest, Island, Mountain, Chrome Mox, and Bloodstained Mire. Likewise, there are a few key cards that define the Legacy format — and instead of trying to predict the decklists that will appear, I’m going to step through the most powerful cards to see how they shape the environment.
The Legacy Breakdown: July to October
Here it is, folks: the Legacy statistics breakdown from July to October. The results are in, the votes are tallied, and there’s one deck that is the big winner by a considerable margin. From the tournament data, it’s a Tier unto itself. What is it? To find out, you’re gonna have to click the link.
SCG Daily: Cream of the Crop, A Number One, Top of the Heap
Yesterday, I took a very biased look at some of the hottest of the recent Magic hotties. Today, I’m running down a list of my favorite art. I’m only going back as far as the current Extended-Legal sets go. Why? Because this is my column. Nyah.
Livin’ The Dream: My Pro Tour: Los Angeles Report, Part I
My testing took place in a relative vacuum — with help from friends back home, but little to no access to pro testing information, I pieced together a fairly accurate picture of the metagame and I built my deck accordingly. I want to make sure that everyone who wants it — the PTQ win, the PT, the gravy train — really understands that it is possible.
From Right Field: You Stink
A follow up on Ultra-rares and ultra-uncommons, and the suprising solid results of Chris’s Precon experimenting.
SCG Daily – From Right Field – Ars Gratia Artis
From Right Field regular Chris Romeo, on the finest artistic renderings in all of Magicdom. Warning: contains hotties
Chanting Through California – Pro Tour Los Angeles *28th*
Ruud finds wealth and fame in Los Angeles, visits the Price is Right, and shares his thoughts on the best decks in Extended.