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The Many Faces of Dimir, Part One

Julien takes us through the ins-and-outs of drafting the Dimir strategy in its many incarnations. Card evaluation, tips and tricks, pitfalls and problems discussed, by one of the hottest talents in the game today. Everything the Blue/Black mage needs for victory. Need I say more?

The Weekly Guild Build: My Impetuous Right Hand

It’s the last week that anyone’s going to care about Ravnica-only Limited, as Guildpact will be all the rage next week… And so The Ferrett goes nuts with digressions on his errant digits, a careful dissection of last week’s “What Would Readers Do?” situation, and – finally – a Blue/Black deck!

SCG Daily – One on One with Morphling

In the first of what promises to be an entertaining series, an extra-special guest interviews the original Tough Guy of Magic… the mighty Morphling.

Unified Constructed Part II: Modern Implementations and Looking at the Matchups

Mike continues his sterling work, examining the upcoming Team Constructed format with acute reference to the current card-pool and metagame. Serious stuff for those wanting a head-start on an exciting new format.

SCG Daily – A Deck a Day: We Were In London

Our final installment has arrived and mourning has begun, for what once was Spring has now gone to Winter. Friday has arrived, and with it, the ending of our travels.

Nine Junk Rares

You don’t care about my tastes in music.
You don’t want to hear me quote lyrics from people funnier than me.
You sure as hell don’t care about my copy of BASEketball.
You came here to read about Magic.

Bearing A Grudge

You think you’ve seen it all from Mike Flores. Brilliant theory. Fantastic decks. More hype than a Don King promoted boxer. But you have not seen this!

Ben’s Corner: Guildpact is Coming – Alpha/Beta/Unlimited Repriced and Restocked!

We’ve added fifty-thousand (yes, 50,000) Alpha, Beta, Unlimited and Antiquities singles to our inventory – while dropping prices on the majority of the cards in these sets by as much as 50%! Learn more about this massive inventory update, the fantastic Guildpact prices we’ll be offering at Grand Prix: Richmond, and more, all in this week’s Ben’s Corner!

Ravnica Limited: Drafting All The Colors

Ravnica is a city of Guilds, each defined by a strong color pairing. Drafting along strict Guild-based themes can bear wonderful fruit. Rich Hoaen, however, says “screw that!” Today, he shares his succesful Five Color strategy, with tips and tricks for the aspiring Rainbow Mage.

Ravnica Limited: Drafting All The Colors – A Draft Walkthrough

Following up his introductory article, Rich plunges headlong into a typical Five Color draft scenario, bringing a full walkthrough and match analysis. Just how powerful is the multicolored archetype? Rich explains all…

Veggies and Kelp

It took a while to get over being unable to make new Extended decks. This season saw one of the best Constructed formats in quite some time… though it seems Friggorid will be degrading our wonderful environment next year. Alas. On the bright side, I now have a reason to write about Vintage again. It’s time to celebrate the New Year and give out some vague and inaccurate predictions for 2006!

SCG Daily – A Deck a Day: Pine Needles

Welcome back to our Thursday installment of the coolest daily deck-a-thon this side of the Atlantic Ocean!

Yawgmoth’s Whimsy # 136: Conclusions about the Value of Playtesting On MTGO

Peter completes his analysis of the MTGO test-bed. Through thorough testing and examination of results, he brings us the low-down on the relevance of the electronic game in today’s thriving community.

SCG Daily – A Deck a Day: Bottled Fun

Today, let’s turn our eyes towards a little Ravnica action, shall we? Sometimes, you just want to build the obvious. Bottled Cloister screams “Combine me with other artifacts.” Let’s take a look at just such a deck.

A Scrub Brushes Up, #1: My Grand Prix Trial (By Fire!)

Scrubdom forever, or a true start to a tourney career? The choice was mine, and I made it. I vowed to, yes, finally claw my way up, to make some kind of showing at a real tournament. I swore to emerge from my warm and snuggly prerelease cocoon and stretch my damp little wings in the cold and unforgiving world of PTQs, GPTs, MREs, etc. This article series will detail my antics and hi-jinks along the way, and, if you’re lucky, maybe even an honest-to-God caper.