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.
A follow up on Ultra-rares and ultra-uncommons, and the suprising solid results of Chris’s Precon experimenting.
From Right Field regular Chris Romeo, on the finest artistic renderings in all of Magicdom. Warning: contains hotties
Ruud finds wealth and fame in Los Angeles, visits the Price is Right, and shares his thoughts on the best decks in Extended.
Adam finishes up a fantastic week of SCG Daily, discussing the folklore behind some of your favorite Magic creatures with a discussion of the Wild Hunt, as well as Brownies. Mmmm, brownies.
Flores identifies a pernicious type of error most likely to affect strong players, draws up some illustrative anecdotes from his Champs and Pro Tour LA matches, and sprinkles the whole thing with a generous heap of cryptic initials.
Adrian Sullivan returns, with a fantastic new deck for Standard that brought him home the trophy in Wisconsin, as well as scoring Top 4 berths for the other two players piloting it. Get the inside scoop on how to build and play the deck, as well as a bit of legal theory on the side.
No Stick is one of the best control decks available to anyone trying to qualify this PTQ season. This deck list has a number of changes from Arita’s PT: LA list, but it’s tested very well. In addition, this version has already qualified my friend Max McCall (T8 GP Seattle), who used it to win a PTQ last weekend. In other words, this deck is simply amazing.
So you want the list? Sure. Here’s Silvestri Scepter. Copying Flores deck names for the win!
Max McCall likes to Chant. Repeatedly. Last weekend he had an opportunity to Chant his way to Honolulu, and he made the best of it, with Josh Silvestri’s version of Scepter-Chant. What went right? Where did theory fail him? Read on for answers about one of the top decks in the new Extended.
So far in this series, we’ve looked at some of Northern European folklore’s intelligent, social beings (elves and goblins) and some monsters (krakens and wurms/worms). Today, we’ll focus on a group of beings that fall somewhere in between: vampires.
When the Portal sets became legal in Vintage, it was like three whole new expansions entered the field at once. Sure, everyone knows about the cards that got insta-restricted… But how about Dong Zhou? Or the unique and powerful effect of Riding the Dilu Horse? Abe breaks open some cards to see what kinds of decks you can build!
Fresh off his 4th place finish at Pro Tour Los Angeles, Chris “Star Wars Kid” McDaniel returns to discuss the powerful Heatbeat Combo deck, recap his entire Pro Tour experience and offer his perspective on the controversial semifinals match against Billy Moreno!
The First Law of Mentat: A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it, and flow with it.
Kevin Binswanger offers a very thorough analysis of the Star City “Duel for Duals” tournament results and the overall state of the Legacy metagame. A must read for anyone preparing for the upcoming Legacy GPs.
Gadiel dissects the many Extended archetypes seen at Pro Tour Los Angeles, then follows it up with his recommendation for the current PTQ season.
