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Ben’s Corner: The Top Ravnica: City of Guilds Cards To Trade For!

The Ravnica prerelease is tomorrow and you’re looking to get the best trades possible at the tournament. Ben breaks down the hottest cards from the new set using data culled straight from weeks of Ravnica singles presales! See which cards are in the most demand, which cards are being undervalued, and which cards you should be gunning for on Saturday. Make sure you don’t trade away your gold for dandelions – read this edition of Ben’s Corner right now!

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Japanese Nationals Report *3rd*

A little over two weeks ago, Masashi battled the best players Japan had to offer and ended up on the Japanese National team. This is the story of how he got there, complete with insights on the current Standard format and his favorite archetype in CBS draft.

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Jeff Cunningham’s “Untold Legends Of The Million Dollar Magic The Gathering™ Pro Tour” Vol. 2

The last article in this series was what some guy named Randy Buehler deemed one of the greatest articles he had ever read. Can you really afford not to read volume 2?

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The Ravnica Prerelease Survival Guide

blisterguy continues his fine tradition of doing everything short of force feeding you the spoiler in order to prepare readers for tomorrow’s prerelease. Recommended for good players and commoners alike.

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The Casual Player’s Guide To Surviving The Ravnica Prerelease

If you’ve never been to a prerelease, here’s what it’s like: You have this big pile of cards in front of you. In half an hour, you have to make a deck out of them. Today I’m going to take the least experienced among you and try to instruct you how to take your “pile” and turn it into a deck that can win.

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SCG Daily – Previewing Power 9 Richmond

Welcome back. Today I’d like to go over what you should expect if you’re planning on playing Vintage in Richmond this weekend. My job today is pretty easy though, since anyone who’s been to Richmond before knows that the metagame is extremely predictable. What’s that? You don’t know what to expect? Well read on, then. Still need a decklist for the big event? I got your back on that one too.

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Playing Favorites

Last week, my newly acquired playtest partner Jeff Cunningham, a.k.a. ffej, wrote what was described by Randy Buehler, Grand Wizard Vizier of Magic: the Gathering as – and I quote specifically here – what “could be the best column [he] ha[s] ever read[,]” (emphasis mine). High praise indeed from the lord and master of hocus-pocus and prestidigitation; too high, in fact, to escape notice. Now I must say that your narrator, too, enjoyed ffej’s Time Walk into the ancient days and it jarred me almost bodily into historic reverie. However, instead of telling untold stories as Jeff is doing, I shall highlight some of the greatest stories ever told for the eggs and chicks in the audience.

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The New Rules Of Multiplayer, Part I: The Reason I Rejected Your Article

One of the most widely-read writers on Multiplayer returns to the field, condensing his overly-long series of articles back from the Pleistocene Era of Magic into several sweet, easily-readable theories. Today, The Ferrett takes on the core concepts of Aggro, Combo, and Control to show you why multiplayer is different from a single-player duel – and how these differences make him reject articles from friendly readers. Plus, a brief rant on the status of our non-Premium articles!

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Magical Hack: Experimenting with Legacy

“Oh look,” you say, resignedly. “Another Legacy testing article. Yippee. Sigh. Why can’t anyone write about cool decks in that format?” Well do we have a treat for you. Today McKeown discusses skeletons for four different decks that are distinctly off the beaten path. Looking for a port of Fujita’s Sneak Attack deck? He’s got it. Want to play something as ridiculous and outrageous as Dragonstorm? He’s got it. If you like strange but potentially competitive decks in interesting new formats, then this is the article for you.

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The Art of 999

It’s interesting… on the surface 9th Edition Limited seems pretty simple. However, every time we run a new article on the format writers seem to disagree dramatically on color strength and pick orders. Which color does Pelcak feel is the best and what do his pick orders look like? Enquiring minds want to know…

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SCG Daily – Vintage Pimpness

I get a lot of questions from players who love their foils as to how best to maximize the pimpness ratings of their Magical cards. In order to make this a little more clearly apparent (and to write a slightly more whimsical than usual article) I’ve decided to take up the challenge as an article. Read on to discover maximum pimposity.

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Speed Demon of Ravnica

Grand Prix: Nottingham is coming soon, only three weeks after the prerelease, and it will rock. A single GP is of course nothing like a PTQ season. At least it’s nothing like the PTQ London season was around here. There is only one shot at glory and there are only three weeks to get to grips with a brand spanking new format that has nothing whatsoever in common with the brand spanking old and stale format. Three measly weeks to break a Limited format? That requires some atomic-powered speed demon! I intend to become that demon. All y’all can come along for the ride; but beware! The road may be a bit bumpy.

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Nice Deck, Kenji – Dutch Nationals 2005 *17th*

I’ve never done well at any Nationals and this year proved to be no different. While most players were getting their game on in the first three rounds and were “growing in the tournament”, “gaining confidence in their deck” or even figuring out their deck while winning some rounds in Standard, I proceeded to quickly 0-3. Couldn’t beat the mono Green deck and wasn’t even close with the White Weenie guy that insisted on giving me four extra turns. I had a shot at the 0-2 table against Ogre/Demons, but even after he threw away some cards for no reason he still managed to draw six spells in a row. Nice deck, Kenji.

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Yawgmoth’s Whimsy #133: Ravnica In Multiplayer

The spoiler is up; the set reviews are coming. I’m going to look at the set, too, but I’ll analyze it from a multiplayer perspective. Limited specialists can tell you how to draft it, and I haven’t tested enough to give you States previews, but multiplayer? I can do that. Is this a powerhouse set for multiplayer? Read on.

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Legacy’s Allure

I played in my first ever Legacy tournament this past Saturday at Alex Shartsman’s Kings Games in Brooklyn, New York.
There was a Grand Prix Trial for Philadelphia there, so Alex’s store attracted a lot of non-regulars. The turnout was decent for a Grand Prix Trial not at a major event, with attendees including U.S. Nationals Top 8 competitor Chris Manning, Sped legend Jamie Parke, and Meddling Mage Chris Pikula. What deck did I play? Why something of my own design, of course. Who netdecks?

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