Friday, September 12th – With most of Extended a ‘known quantity,’ the potential impact of Shards of Alara remains generally small. We have been told already that all of the creatures from the shard of Esper will be artifact creatures, regardless of colored mana cost, and thus we can expect that there will be a reasonable number of cards that deserve consideration for the ‘best deck in Extended’ (so-called), Affinity.
Friday, September 12th – Shards of Alara is almost here, and this will herald a two-block and one base set rotation out of Extended. Gone will be seven full sets – 7th Edition, Invasion, Planeshift, Apocalypse, Odyssey, Torment, and Judgment. Which cards will drop in value from these sets, and which will hold their price? How will the losses of individual cards affect the value of the remaining cards in the Extended card pool? Find out the answers to these questions in this two-part Insider Trading series! Special Bonus: Which cards are rising up in price even as we speak? Ben talks about a few cards that have (or are about to see) significant price jumps! Plus: What is Ben’s pick for the hottest card spoiled out of Shards of Alara so far?
Monday, September 1st – The Block Constructed season is slowly winding down… it’s time to turn our Constructed eyes to pastures new! Today’s Innovations sees Patrick Chapin investigating the state of play in the forthcoming Extended format. He updates a number of old favorites, and brings us a fresh deck that promises much…
Friday, April 25th – With Pro Tour: Hollywood on the horizon, Pro-level thoughts on Standard continue to be well guarded. Of course, with a new set in the mix, there’s plenty more Constructed Magic available. Today, Adrian Sullivan examines the Shadowmoor offerings in an Extended context, and delivers his personal Top 5 Shadowmoor cards for Extended play.
Wednesday, April 2nd – Part 1 above walked us through seventeen thousand words of JFR’s very own peculiar madness… the exciting conclusion awaits within! (Yes, that’s right… JFR broke the article entry form.)
Wednesday, April 2nd – One Deck. Five Events. Over Thirty-Three Thousand Words.
John. Friggin. Rizzo.
Friday, March 28th – Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. This week we’re wrapping up Grand Prix Philly in style, starting with the ultimate intro courtesy of Tim Aten, an interview with Head Judge John Carter, and we hear from the pros on how the recent Organized Play changes have affected them.
Thursday, March 27th – Wizards has tweaked the upcoming Extended rotation, letting up play with our Onslaught fetchlands for another year. Good news for those who shelled out big bucks for those Flooded Strands. Nevertheless, a whopping seven sets are leaving Extended, a veritable K-T Extinction Event in the Magic kingdom.
Wednesday, March 26th – As part of the last banned and restricted list update, Wizards announced a change to the Extended rotation. Previously, Extended was to lose three years worth of sets every three years. Under that policy, come November, everything before Mirrodin block was set to leave the format. That would have been a huge change…
Tuesday, March 25th – Extended season is winding down, and PTQ players have likely chosen their deck of choice for this coming weekend. Of course, not all preparation is flawless… with mere days until the Last Chance Saloon opens its doors, those folk requiring a change of deck direction could do worse than turn their eyes to Domain Zoo. Tom LaPille walks us through the details…
Friday, March 21st – It should come as absolutely no surprise at all that when it comes to playing Grand Prix: Philadelphia, I was going to side with the Goblins. With a little twisting and a little tuning, I’d arrived at the list I was happy with, changing one little thing here and another little thing there until I was pointed exactly where I wanted to be.
Friday, March 21st – Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. In this week’s episode, we travel to Grand Prix: Philadelphia in the great state of Pennsylvania. Over eleven hours of travel to and from, technical issues galore, a huge glut of Magic stars to talk to, and the result is this week’s Magic Show. BONUS: Watch the edited finals, with pretty pictures of the cards and everything!
Friday, March 21st – Grand Prix: Philadelphia saw Mike Flores pilot the perennial Blue/Green Combo favorite Heartbeat of Spring into the heat of battle. Sadly, things didn’t go according to plan on the day… today’s Flores Friday examines the reasons why. Mike shares one particular turn in which he feels the wheels may have fallen off the wagon…
Thursday, March 20th – This past weekend, Gerard “GFabs†Fabiano rocked out Grand Prix: Philly, armed with an old-fashioned Barra-style Rock deck. Today’s Down And Dirty sees Kyle Sanchez take us through the rather strange card numbers in Gerard’s build. He also reasons that Rock decks may not be the best choice this coming weekend, and offers an alternative…
Thursday, March 20th – In Magic, there exists a gap in results between a strategy that you come up with in theory and the way you implement it in practice. In today’s Deep Analysis, Richard Feldman looks at some of the more off-the-wall strategies in the modern Extended metagame, and explains why they work even if they look rather strange on paper…
