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An analysis of the various types of Type II-legal lands, and how (and when) to use them.

I could be suggesting that I will provide decklists from a highly secret underground (and thus cool) place. But probably not.

Jim’s Good Spells deck gets taken for a tournament ride this week, and he discusses the strategies behind the proper way to play split cards.

Glittering Lions and Cursed Totems, oh my! What did Mike learn from actually playtesting his”ideal on paper” deck?

Five potential Cowardice builds, showing you the evolution of the form.

Why Pork? Because it’s the other white meat. This is the other white control deck.

A long and involved deconstruction of how to design decks and how to choose cards for them. Can you build a deck around Cats and Totems?

A Rebels build with burn and Blastoderms. It worked… but not as well as Jim had hoped. Find out what he would have changed.

Some new decks, some ruminations on house buying, and the state of the industry.

How does one of the most prolific rogue deckbuilders on the ‘net create a deck for each legendary Dragon? And how do they fare?

Break this Contest has banned AND (Shyft is an Ice Age creature that can go multichromatic at instant speed.) Any submission using should be resubmitted. Anthony apologizes for the oversight, and would like to state for the record that he thinks Ice Age is a lovely expansion, and that people who think about Ice Age…

Wednesday, Dec 5. I got home at two a.m. on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning after playing way too much Magic at CMU. Stupidly, I logged on to check my mail… and found sixty-three messages. Oh man. I did write that damned "respond to email with haste, chief" diatribe, didn’t I? At about 4:20 a.m., I hit…

Chicago was the next stop on my marathon of Magic events. I’d been to three different countries in the previous weeks, traveling to Sydney, Australia, Florence, Italy, and Dallas, TX in search of that elusive win. I was in search of Pro Tour points and prize money, of course, but mostly I was after the…

The results are in! This weekend saw the culmination of Pro Tour: Chicago, the tournament that I had most hoped to attend. Alas, it was not to be; the closest I came to fame was finishing third in the Qualifier. Okay, the mandatory "my fifteen minutes of fame" moment is over with. The results are…