Well friends, it’s been a fun week. Getting to talk about two my favorite subjects was certainly a treat. I hope the readers had a good time as well. Today is the drafting finale, and the format of choice when you’ve got 7 buddies, a quality printer, and lots of time on your hands. It’s only one of the Top 5 coolest things you can do with the game of Magic and it won an award! How could you not read this article?
It took a little while, but we finally convinced the purple atog to give writing another chance. As usual (and regardless of topic), his work does not disappoint.
The guy that’s been pushing this deck since its inception reviews the Days of the Mongoose that took place recently in France. Can Threshold keep the top slot in the Legacy format? Check out what Dan has to say for possible answers.
Adam Prosak returns from the wilds of the Vs. System to produce one of the very best draft articles of the season. If you care about Limited, Limited Theory, or Magic in general, you should be reading this article.
About once every three months, readers absolutely demand a good rant about the color wheel where someone complains loudly about the fact that Blue remains very good in spite of supposedly neutering from R&D. This is one of those articles, so you know, Green mages rejoice and such…
There are an awful lot of articles out there that deal with Constructed decklists. They explain what a deck does, why certain card choices were made, and how to sideboard against the top decks. If I were to write such an article about a Psychatog deck right now, no one would care. Extended season is over!
But this is a different kind of Constructed article. This is the story of a decklist: how my team started with one Psychatog list at the beginning of the season, tuned and updated it as the season progressed, and what we learned about innovation and deckbuilding strategy along the way.
Now that you know how to draft everything, Noah also gives some tips and pointers about how to draft anything.
As far as rogue archetypes in this format, Ken Krouner did an interesting piece on the Cloudstone Curio and Savra archetypes, and there has been some other writing out there as well. Triple Ravnica just doesn’t have the room for innovation that other stand-alone sets have had in the past. Yet there are still a few underdrafted archetype out there if you know where to look. Today I’ll discuss one such archetype that is probably a lot better than you think.
Star Wars Kid checks in with tales of his most recent adventures, including money finishes at two recent Grand Prix and detailed analysis of some of his more subtle mistakes at recent premier events.
Today’s installment includes all the forty card formats from Invasion until the present day.
Mike recently came back to the game from a long hiatus and today he unveils a few things he wishes Wizards would deliver in 2006.
If you’ve competed in a couple of drafts in this format, you’ll certainly have recognized moments when Selesnya is at its best. I’ve drafted Selesnya many times and I agree that it is among the better archetypes of the format, but I’ve also experienced a few problems with drafting this deck…
Today’s installment goes from December ’93 all the way to June of 2000. Interestingly, this article both begins and ends with draft sets that are exceedingly unfun.
2005 was another bumper crop for Vintage. 2004 was arguably the strongest year since the format’s inception. 2005 was a suitable postscript to the banner 2004. If there is one thing that can be said about 2005, an over arching theme, it is that it was the year of Stax. Only, we didn’t know it when the year began.
Today is not going to be your typical year in review article. No, I’m going to take my own skewed glance at things. Instead of talking about what happened, I’ll talk about what didn’t happen. Then, I’ll have with some predictions.
