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?
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.
Sorry for the delay yesterday, folks – StarCity was down thanks to server problems again. That’s why we’re shelling out the shekels to get a separate database server that should improve the speed of articles, the main page, and all the other major goodies we have planned….
Of the many Tog decks that were played at Osaka, there seemed to be three distinct variants – but can we recreate Zevatog in a block environment?
What common cards in Judgment should you be watching out for? How is it gonna change your strategy? Some free advice for a goofy format tomorrow.
“Clearly, green’s too good if the dominant deck is Psychatog.” – Brian Epstein, Star City’s mailing list
Change is good. The American forefathers were brilliant. So was Richard Garfield.
The man sniffs; he senses the good rares in the kid’s binder, ready to be traded for a crap rare like Mirari or some big Angel. Little does he know that I have the trap waiting to be sprung on him.
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?
