Neale’s back with a new deck to tune! He starts with a controlling Korlash build and ends fawning over Dralnu and Jin-Gitaxias. You’ll have to read to find out why!
Karn Liberated
We’ve had 2 weeks of Opens to see the impact New Phyrexia has had on the Standard and Legacy tournament scenes. I’m going to focus on Standard, since the Grand Prix this weekend is Legacy, and will almost certainly have more players than the SCG Open series gets. Waiting on that will give us a bit of a better view on the format. However, for Standard, there’s no reason to wait, especially since the format hasn’t really undergone much of a change.
Chad talks about changing Standard stock into Legacy staples in his article today.
Neale takes a reader’s Rafiq deck from common to commanding for head’s up play, and challenges you to do it better. Think you can handle the firepower?
Finishing his set analysis, Bushard delves into the red, green and artifact end of the card pool.
As the first high-profile Legacy tournament since the introduction of Mental Misstep, the results leave us with a few things to consider. We’ll note the prevalence of Mental Misstep, a prominent sideboard card, the introduction of a new planeswalker, and the archetypes that thrived.
Here is part 1 of Gregory’s design review – a unique card-by-card analysis from an ex- magic designer.
Anthony Avitollo, our resident cube master, breaks down or completely blasts some of the best (and overhyped cards) for cubes from New Phyrexia!
With a tale of two Commander decks, Neale shares everything that’s right and wrong in Commander!