The Ultimate Guide To Solo Tournament Prep
With hard-won expertise and more than a little of his signature dry humor, Shaun McLaren shares his essential steps to preparing for a tournament when you have no team to back you up!
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A Single Day Of Playtesting
Join Emma Handy for a journey into SCG Cincinnati Standard! How does an SCG Tour grinder prepare for a brand new format? She explains her process here!
You Must Playtest Correctly!
Emma Handy is forever exhorting readers to playtest, playtest, playtest! But all that playtesting won’t do any good if you’re not doing it well. Get her secrets to proper playtesting ahead of the SCG Season One Invitational!
The Art Of Sideboarding
Why did those fifteen specific cards make it into the winner’s sideboard? Sam Black breaks down the classes of sideboard cards and uses an analogy from Limited to sharpen this side of your game!
Haymaker Magic
Sometimes, there’s a card you really don’t want to see across from you at the table. How did your opponent identify and build around that haymaker…and what can you do to beat it?
Dismantling Adages Throughout Magic
While some Magic advice is timeless, many of the game’s most treasured proverbs are getting stale. Emma Handy takes on three persistent yet pernicious adages, breaking down exactly where they fall apart, and shares the key to testing them on your own!
How I’ve Been Getting An Edge Lately
Magic is a game of small edges, so you’d better be ready to get them all! Pro Tour Champion Gerry Thompson teaches you many of the theories, tools, and guidelines he’s been working with lately to take over games, and by extension, entire events!
Cheating On Mana Costs
When the most dangerous decks in Modern are all about skimping on printed mana costs or paying life or cascading, you’d better be ready for some fast hostility! Emma Handy talks about the many ways to get under traditional mana curves at Grand Prix Las Vegas this weekend!
You Lose: The Gathering
Now, I wouldn’t say Jim Davis is in a slump, but he has a high standard for himself (being a Players’ Champion and all). How do you keep going when Magic isn’t going your way?
The Time Value Of Magic Cards
In yet another piece that establishes her as one of Magic’s top theory teachers in the game today, Jadine Klomparens talks about the game resource that too often takes a backseat to mana, life, and cards in hand: game timing! And we’re not talking about the round timer either…
Adapting To A New Deck
Got the new-deck blues? Emma Handy is here to help! Most players have trouble switching between decks and archetypes, but advice from an SCG Tour standout who’s planning on playing something new at SCG Charlotte is just a click away!
Arcane Selection: Lessons From Pro Tour Amonkhet Testing
Behind every deck brought to the Pro Tour lies a wasteland of discarded ideas. Ari Lax gives the control archetype he tested for PT Amonkhet a postmortem and shows how the lessons he learned can translate to your game!
Clock Versus Pressure
“Put pressure on your opponent.” “Put your opponent on a clock.” We’ve all heard those sayings, but Jadine Klomparens wants to put meaning back in them! Discover the fundamental difference ahead of SCG Charlotte!
SCG Baltimore *1st*!
Brad Nelson likes this result better than his last one! So what changed between Grand Prix Montreal and SCG Baltimore? He breaks down the fundamentals behind a result that perhaps only he found surprising!
Learning To Live With Losing
Todd Anderson is one of the best the SCG Tour has ever seen, and even he loses at Magic. In this excellent read, Todd talks about the importance of picking yourself up the right way!