The current writing metagame is heavily weighted towards angst; with the mantle of ‘Issue Boy’ now vacated, it seems that all and sundry have picked up their angry pens and let themselves go like some kind of ventriloquist with their arms up a Rizzo doll.
The peasant Magic idea works well in cases where local participation is low. Let’s take my store’s attendance as an example: Prior to the opening, it was zero – the big goose egg. In following weeks, the store had six players in playing Magic on our Saturday league opening, then twelve the following one, then twenty by the third week!
Miraclo Gro rips up Extended… But why does it fail in Type 2 and Extended? Peter builds some Gro variants for all environments and shows you how environment affects deckbuilding.
Don’t believe the hype! Everyone and his mom are telling you how Judgment’s Wishes will break Type One in – but if you look closely, you’ll see that what you have to give up might not be worth the wish…
Well, maybe Geordie can’t play Type One… But he can discuss his extensive playtesting for Regionals and show you what sorts of mutations a deck goes through before the Big Push.
ARRR! Ted celebrates his ascension to a StarCity Featured Writer by giving an excellent”How-To” Guide on being effectively rogue. Sure, you can be rogue and still suck… But how do you turn your suck rogue decks into tourney-smashing winners?
Even if you’re playing a card-for-card copy of the latest PT winner, you’re still playing your own deck. How? Daniel examines the thumbprints that we all leave on our cards.
Since I’ve recently been promoted to Webmaster of this site as well as editor, I’ll be looking to make some major changes here – and soon. The question is, what do YOU want to see done here to help you play Magic better? Check out the discussion in our forum, and let me know what I can do to help you!
“For a long time, testing seems to have shown me that four cantrips seems to be like playing an extra two lands – but am I really right?” Jim goes stat-crazy in an attempt to figure out how Opts, Peeks, and Sleight of Hands affect your draws!
Now on a slower pace, Anthony has time to think about life’s great questions: What is the best way to play Emperor with eight people? And what is the Secretly Forbidden Topic of StarCity?
And so I ask you, the Magic community, a critical question that has never been answered in Magic before or since: What makes a team win? Help me find one of the core fundamentals of Magic that the Lucky Seven never answered.
With the influx of powerful new white and green cards in Judgment, the question of the day becomes: Will W/G be any good in Standard?
Bennie attended the Central Championships – the ccgprime.com-sponsored Midwest tournament where Type 2 and OBC met head-to-head. So how did Bennie do?
“You’re smart, though. You learn fast. How hard could attending your first tournament three days after you learned to play be?” “That brings me to my problem, Jack.” “What’s that?””It turns out I suck.”
