This week Stephen covers a few topics, with a recap of cards that will get a boost, how to get rid of them, and 4 cards from the new set he really likes.
Koth of the Hammer
10 Magic players of superior skill enter a single team cube draft. How do you handle the volume without taking up an entire day? Anthony has the clever, and fun, solution of Survivor Draft!
This week Stephen goes through how to keep value on your remaining Jace’s, and what cards to be on the look our for in the coming weeks.
This week Stephen examines the block constructed format to find what can still hold value after this falls standard rotation.
Sometimes, decks have a pretty solid theme and plan. When you’re building the Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician deck you know it’s going to be both a burning blade of doom and gooey pile of in-your-own-face explosions. See what Carlos has been cooking with for for weeks!
Since I last wrote of Pauper, much has changed on MTGO! Included here are a full MTGO field archetype breakdown, multiple new decklists, and reader questions from Twitter.
With the exception of Splinter-Twin, however, the new metagame is very similar to the metagame before rotation. Edgar Flores won the first SCG Open with NPH legal with a UW CawBlade list that looked very similar to the pre-rotation lists. In this metagame there are a number of cards that are being underplayed, in my opinion, and here are the top 5.
With a new format becoming available for the first time Friday, it’s time to take a quick look at what’s available. For the most part, these will be aggro or combo decks, since control decks need to be built towards the metagame. As it stands, Caw-Blade is the premiere control deck in the format, and it can be played as-is with the mere addition of Batterskull.
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.
Here is part 1 of Gregory’s design review – a unique card-by-card analysis from an ex- magic designer.
Gregory teams up with Jay Schneider to bring you an exciting and potentially format-crushing deck at the last minute!
