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Kanoot is stuck in a hotel room and can’t sleep again, but this time he has something besides jet lag and the bright Australian sun to blame.

Why do you draft Green? Don’t say it’s for the mana fixing. I’ve seen those pick orders that put Sakura-Tribe Elder and Kodama’s Reach over every other Green common. It’s true: Sakura-Tribe Elder and Kodama’s Reach are the best. And next comes Orochi Sustainer. But that’s not why you draft Green. Nope, you draft Green because you like fat. So why are you consistently overlooking some of the best fat in the set? Is it because it’s not Green?

Kanoot returns to answering your most pressing questions today, including: Who is the biggest ladies’ man on the Tour?

Nick drafts a four-color pile of awfulness in his latest Champions of Kamigawa Draft Walkthrough. Think I’m kidding or wondering how he ended up with the deck? See for yourself.

“As you probably surmised, the premise behind this deck is to run your opponent out of cards by repeatedly splicing Dampen Thought.” Yes, it’s a draft archetype. Yes, it’s actually good. Yep, Tim’s going to go into detail on how to draft this deck and include information on how to beat it as well. Need we say more?

Good day and welcome to the second installment of the Underused Card Hall of Fame. This is the place where I retire 30 cards, placing them in the Underused Card Hall of Fame. There are six categories, one for each color and another category for everything else. Five cards are retired from each category.
This is my excuse to write about one of my favorite topics — cards that you aren’t playing, but you should.

Kanoot takes you on a photographic guided tour of Tokyo, complete with an arcade visit and a picture of the Japanese version of Moat.

I’ve always been a believer in the idea that you learn more from defeats than from victories. Which means, over the years, that I’ve learned an awful lot. There’s a particular problem which I’ve known about for years, and which I’ve seen cost players a lot of games, but which I’ve found hard to explain properly. It’s when you lose because you are on autopilot. Let me try to explain what autopilot is.

We’ve got a two-part article here today. The first part describes the evolution of my current competitive 5color deck. The second part was going to be a further discussion of the problems with Contract from Below and ante, but I replaced that with a brief tourney report on making Top 4 in a 5color Worlds qualifier.

What’s it like to travel to a country where you can’t even read the letters in the words? How many times did Knut get lost on the way from the airplane to the train? Are Japanese stools made for American butts? Your adventurous editor goes about discovering the answers to all these questions and more in the latest edition of his travel diary.

If you’re anything like me, the first time you heard the term “Mana Curve” it was either by someone much better than you, or it was on a website. For the longest time I never understood what a good curve really was, or how to build my deck with that mythical “Good Curve.” I would ask the same questions over and over, “What’s the shape of the curve? Is it a bell? An incline? I just don’t understand!” Well I’m here to help you figure out exactly what the mana curve is, so you won’t have to be like me and annoy people with those questions all the time.