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Green Tealeaves: Buehler, and OBC Updates

This past weekend, I finally got the chance to log in some matches and get a feel for the overall strength of the new monogreen in OBC I was generally impressed by its performance… And to no one’s surprise, Phantom Centaur is a hoss.

Yawgmoth’s Whimsy #35: They Killed Extended! The Bast234s!

I think that every single deck -except one – that defines the current metagame is dead. I’ll be a bit different, and list the regular card combos that got lost and decks that are affected. Then I’ll go on to decks that will survive, and new ones that will thrive.

Glorious T’hilah

What happens when you hand the Hebrew prerelease card to a Rabbi in order to translate it? Well, the card’s not as accurate as you might think.

The Magic Summer Games

First off is the Lava Axe throwing competition. And once you’ve cauterized all your wounds from that, we head right into the Giant Strength round with two very Hungry, Hungry Heifers sit atop a teetering Sandstone Needle….

Yawgmoth’s Whimsy #34: Ranting about Blue

It LOOKS like yet another rant on blue… But in reality, it’s an analysis of how much you can afford to play on a creature. Using GP: Milwaukee’s Top 64 decks as a basis, Peter tells you why the Magic number is three.

Wacky Wednesdays #23: Combo2000

Gis is looking for obscure cards for the time being, but for right now he’s dealing with a VERY famous card… Not only is it banned, but it’s Tom van de Logt’s baby. What card is it? Read it and share your best multiplayer store for $5 in StarCity credit!

Why Nobody Loves Scarwood Bandits But Me

Scarwood Bandits isn’t a bad card from The Dark… But it was never good enough to be used in tourney play, like Ball Lightning was, and never was bad enough to be broken by crazed deckbuilders, like Sorrow’s Path. It doesn’t fit a theme, like Grandmother Sengir. It’s just… Lost.

You CAN Play Type I #42: Why There Are Only Four Colors In Magic

Outside of mono green, a green creature has to be significantly better than the best another color has, simply because green can’t contribute much to a multicolored deck aside from creatures. In other words, even if I rate Call of the Herd higher than Serendib Efreet, I may still go with the blue guy to avoid adding green.

An Open Letter To Wizards Of The Coast

The fact that this change comes now, in the wake of what may have been the best Extended season ever, is shocking. I have never seen a format lend itself so well to innovation as this past year’s Extended. So why the hell did you change it?

Force Of Will: Connections

I love that show Connections, where this bloke named Burke takes you all over through time and all over the world connecting things together that you never thought would be connected. If I’m good here, maybe I can pull that sort of idea off and tell you why The Ferrett’s comments on the metagame vanishing in OBC were right.