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Boros Deck Wins

I’ve been wary of doing set reviews ever since I called Lightning Rift “junk” back when looking at Onslaught. So this is most emphatically not a review of the new Red cards. Instead it is a quick primer of what options will be available in Standard, more of a brainstorming of decklists with glorious Red cards in it than anything else. What is a Red mage to do when besieged with the urge to *gulp* splash other colors into your beautiful creation? Here are four new Ravnica Standard decklists to help answer those questions.

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A Trio of Tournament Reports

Rogier returns from trekking around the world and then back to The Netherlands, all for the sake of Magic and Hilary Duff. How did he and his Dutch teammates prepare for the summer Grand Prix schedule and what do they have to show for it? The answers are inside.

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Play Like A Pirate Day!

In honor of National Talk Like a Pirate day, Nationals competitor and scurvy dog Dave Meddish displays his fun side with a few theme decks for all the unabashed rogues among you.

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SCG Daily – Blue Mana for Beginners

Hello again lads and lasses. As you may have guessed, this is my week for Star City Daily. Today I’d like to cover some ground that should be pretty much common knowledge for the real competitors in Vintage already, but may just be something you’ve never actively thought about: the how, when, where, and why of drawing cards. Okay, this is a Ben Kowal daily… maybe we’ll just cover two of those to start.

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Ben’s Corner: The 9th Edition Sales Report!

In today’s Ben’s Corner, Ben reveals the top selling 9th Edition cards culled from the StarCityGames.com sales database!

Also this week: Which creature is poised to become the marquee creature in Standard? How can you get Ravnica singles at the lowest prices? Why will Ben’s Corner be a premium article next week? The answers to all this and more is only a click away!

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The Wages of Sin

It takes a wise man to tackle a Magician’s wages of sin with grace, but it takes a Brit to make it truly funny. Stevenson proves himself both British and wise in this article that will make you smarter, better at Magic, and perhaps spew milk out of your nose once or twice.

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Dutch Nationals Report *2nd*

One of the members of the Dutch National team tells the exciting tale of events from his 2005 National Championships. How exactly did he go from a 3-3 record after round 6 directly to the finals? Details are inside.

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SCG Daily – A Deck a Day: Shirei and the Clerics

In the forum for Monday’s article, a suggestion was made for one of my articles. A reader wanted a Magic: The Electronic exclusive. What an excellent suggestion! I have taken it upon myself to build a fun, yet recent, deck that can be played in casual rooms everywhere. (Well, just the one casual room, but you can access it from anywhere.)

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Rules of the Red

In case you were previously unaware of it, there are rules to building successful Red decks. With a new Standard season nearly upon us, the esteemed Mr. Paskins has taken it upon himself to enlighten the ignorant and bring joy to fiery mages and goblin cohorts everywhere.

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Jeff Cunningham’s “Untold Legends of the Million Dollar Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour”

Jeff Cunningham is a simple man. When not slinging spells with the best players in the world and tutoring young Canadians in the Ways of the Mage, Jeff herds yaks and water buffalo on his ranch in the Great White North. In spite of these humble roots, Cunningham is one of the finest Magic writers alive and today he makes his debut on StarCityGames.com, delivering tales and spinning yarns designed to bring a smile to your face and a tear to your eye.

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The Beautiful Struggle: Fumbling in the Dark

On Saturday DreamWizards was having a Grand Prix Trial for the Legacy-format GP: Philadelphia. I didn’t really have a deck and I didn’t have any available cards to borrow; fortunately, there was a Standard side event to be held at the same time. I figured lots of local players would be in the same boat as I and that the Standard event would be almost as big as the GPT. I was wrong, but more on that later. First, let’s get to the decklist, which is a completely original creation on my own part…

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It Would Be Funny If…

Uh oh, someone let Jamie get ahold of a spoiler and he has a *ahem* few opinions about the new cards.

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SCG Daily – A Deck a Day: FreeReal

For Thursday’s deck, I decided to look at my recent article on Fifty Multiplayer Combos from Saviors for inspiration. I came across three combos close together using Freed from the Real. It seemed like I already had the backbone for a Red/Blue deck using Freed from the Real to abuse a few creatures. However, rounding out those deck ideas was a bit more difficult. Here’s what I ended up with:

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No Decent Human Builds a Deck Without These Cards, And Neither Should You

I’m not going to try to convince you to stop playing with a list of cards that seem to come up regularly in multiplayer games that I’ve played and end up beating me. While Chris Hyde claimed that “decent human beings™ don’t play with these cards,” we all know that most of the people we play Magic with – including ourselves – are not decent human beings™, at least according to Chris’s definition! These people are not going to become decent human beings™ just because someone tells us that the cards we use wreck their fun. So what can we actually do to stop their nefarious schemes?

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So Long and Thanks for All the Kami

Just as Ravnica Beta e-mails are showing up in Magic Online inboxes, Nick gets nostalgic takes the world of Kamigawa for one last spin around the block before she retires to second-tier status.

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