When we’re in a Magic slump, it can be helpful to go back to the drawing board. Mike Lanigan explains how to challenge your own assumptions about a metagame or deck.
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David Schumann continues to examine the peculiar and rare side of Magic, this time delving into the early expansions to the game.
Predicting metagame shifts, watching price charts, and thinking about coming releases inform the investment targets Mathieu has for us this week.
Mathieu has a number of hot spec targets to share this week, as well as a debate concerning the potential of the fishies.
Standard is a wide open format right now, which means lots of people are inventing sweet brews. Mike surveys the field for some strategies you may have overlooked.
Mike discusses some recent versions of UWr Delver that have finished well at tournaments and offers his thoughts on the deck.
The Magic community was abuzz this past weekend with Pro Tour talk and the Modern Masters announcement. The SCG Indianapolis Open also revealed another step in the Standard evolution process. Sigmund delves into the results and suggests some moves to make.
As a rule Carlos isn’t a fan of countermagic, but this weeks he goes off the deep end with a deck that tries to counter all the spells! Check out Ertai, the Corrupted and his horde of Merfolk minions!
Sakashima impersonates a solid artifact deck in Carlos Gutierrez’s deck in today’s article.
Joshua Justice takes a closer look at rares mythics and playable commons and uncommons with his set review of Innistrad.
Commander Banned List! What does it mean!
We finish up a tour of the plane of Kamigawa this week with Saviors. The set’s mechanics focused on “wisdom,” as measured by the amount of cards in your hand versus another player’s hand. In theory, this sounds pretty cool; however, in practice, it meant that a player had to keep in mind both hand sizes at all times. The mechanic was unfortunate in that it rewarded players for holding onto their creatures and spells instead of playing them out. What could have been an interesting source of in-game tension wasn’t developed well enough to make it worthwhile to play with the wisdom cards. Although it was a small, poorly-received third set, Saviors has a good selection of money cards for traders to profit from.
Dear Diary, today is the day I broke Riku. He seemed so lovable and cute, too! I watched him through art class. (He’s so dreamy when he’s copying something!) But then I ran into him playing a game…
