Wanting to give the newest and mono-Blackiest cards a chance to shine, Gregory Marques walks us through his current project.

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In the third and final installment of his design review of New Phyrexia, Gregory discusses the Green and Artifact cards.

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It's the second part of the New Phyrexia design review. This episode features Gregory's unique design analysis on the Red in Black cards in the newest set.

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Here is part 1 of Gregory's design review - a unique card-by-card analysis from an ex- magic designer.

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Gregory teams up with Jay Schneider to bring you an exciting and potentially format-crushing deck at the last minute!

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PPL is back! Gregory brings you a brand new Black / Red deck you can use to teach those Caw Blade players a lesson.

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This week we have some new deck ideas for Standard, and a solid review of the Time Sieve deck for Extended.

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(For Part 1, please click here!) Welcome back for Part 2 of my Mirrodin Beseiged Design Review! Rather than reviewing the set as it applies to Constructed or Limited play specifically, I'll be going over how the set appears from a designer's standpoint. Green This is a serious Giant Spider upgrade. Most of the time, […]

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Gregory gives you a full-set card by card design review of Mirrodin Besieged.

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What new decks will come with the introduction of Mirrodin Besieged to Standard and Extended? Greg takes an early look at some of the possibilities in this edition of Present-Present League.

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This week Gregory takes his first stab at a new extended deck, but soon discovers there are some important things you should think about when approaching this format.

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There are 14 Planeswalkers currently legal in Standard. Planeswalkers are some of the most powerful, multifunctional, card-advantageous cards ever printed. Why is it then, with 14 to choose from, I only see one or two of them in decklists? Let's go through them, and see if we can find the problem: Ajani Goldmane - A […]

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Gregory starts with a basic artifact deck and then explores an exciting combo deck for standard.

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Welcome to the Present-Present League! In this new semimonthly article series I'll explore new decks and new twists on known decks for the current Standard environment. The column title, "Present-Present League" is a nod to Wizards of the Coast R&D's Future-Future League in which I participated quite avidly for a couple of years. This week […]

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