After what seems like months and months of playing OBC, I finally escaped but with only a week before the Bath Monthly Standard tourney – and not a moment too soon, as Jim learns some valuable lessons about Shvartsman Study!
You can have a lot of fun with Arcane Teachings on some of those old cards that say”whenever ~this~ deals damage to a player,” do something interesting. And do you want to know how to deal infinite damage in a casual deck with a ping combo?
I don’t get many chances to play at high-level events while rubbing elbows with many of Magic’s elite, and missing a massive player gathering that was a mere four hours away would be just crazy. Apparently a few people in the area agreed with me, because we ended up taking eight people down past Toledo and into lion’s den. Let me give you a quick rundown of the Sarnia contingent.
Ever looked at a set and thought to yourself that a mechanic looked surprisingly… Familiar? Well, not surprisingly, morph is a lot like echo in that it allows you to spread a high cost over a few turns. What effects does this have on the Constructed environment?
If there is one syndrome the Magic community is notorious for, it’s forgetting about good cards in the environment. Judgment has come and the result? The entire Invasion block should be renamed the Vacation Block. What cards are still good?
This deck has a 90%-95% winning percentage in game one versus every deck in the field besides Wake. Do not adjust your screen: Let me repeat those figures. 90%-95%. The only way you lose game one is to mana screw or being caught off guard by something you just never expected, causing misplay.
Well, Geordie and his friend both aced the grinder trial the night before Grand Prix – Cleveland, finishing first and second. Geordie didn’t do as well as he would have liked, and a Frosty was all that lay between Kevin Phelan and Day 2. Read on!
Dave gives his tips on the current metagame – including some dead-on advice about what you currently need to play mono-black, including one card you’re just a durned fool if you don’t run it.
00:03:22 – — Basti says: ”Go easy on me.”
00:03:22 – — Rakso says: ”Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war”
00:04:02 – Rakso says:’keep’
00:04:05 – Basti says:’I am playing White Weenie!’
00:04:10 – Rakso says:’I accept your concession.’
What we did was to lay out each deck that each of us were going to play, along with the sideboard, and work out the best way to sideboard for each matchup we expected. Two of our guys went 6-2, and we’re sharing that collective sideboarding wisdom for U/G Threshold with you.
If you want to track down the elusive internet writer, a species rarely seen outside of the nest (or,”basement”), you need to get the lowdown on the habits and appearance of said target. What will Geordie look like at GP: Cleveland?
You can’t get a chuckle out of ten paragraphs of me kissing Henry Stern’s butt and calling it perfume; that’s no rant. Readers want to live vicariously through your little R&D grouchfest. But you have to keep reality in mind, folks.
The picture of a man rolling a stone up a hill for eternity, only to have it keep rolling back down, is iconic. It strikes a chord with many readers, and this relatively minor Greek character has retained a place in many peoples’ minds.
And here is the Magic application: Do you feel like Sisyphus?
“Always choose rock – good ol’ Rock”
-Bart Simpson, shortly before getting wrecked.
What, one Rock isn’t enough for you? How about this amazing variety – the elusive triple Rock, Rock, Rock metagame! Nate offers some advice on how to deal with a format where the two big decks are, um, equal.
Mirri, Cat Warrior. Thriss, Nantuko Primus. Kamahl, Pit Fighter. Legends have long been a feature of Magic most revered by casual players and storyline aficionados the world over. Legends have mystique… But that mystique disappears when it comes to Constructed.
