My name is Joshua Justice. I’m technically a “Magic Pro” because I won a PTQ last year and made Day Two at Pro Tour: Amsterdam. In reality, I’m just a weekend grinder who’s been back in the game for a little over a year, and I’ve had a couple of successful tournaments. This story begins two weeks before Grand Prix: Atlanta, in a comic shop called The DeeP in Huntsville, Alabama. My plan that day was to play in a Grand Prix Trial, then move to Atlanta to start my new job.
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Brook Gardner-Durbin takes a look at the first half of Mirrodin Beseiged spoilers and the impact they’ll have on Constructed.
This week, Usman continues his series of SWOT articles for each color in cube, examining the strengths, weaknesses and what each color brings to its archetype. This week’s SWOT analysis is on blue.
With second part (the first half) of an Extended PTQ, Kyle walks us through quite a few more sticky situations in Magic.
Jund is one of the top decks in the Extended format, and here is everything you should need to supplement your playtesting with it for Grand Prix: Atlanta!
In a different kind of “tournament report,” Kyle turns back time and walks through some player questions from an Extended PTQ.
Again this week Kellen Huber goes into the extended format with a darker side to the format with a new BR deck.
Taking a look at the best finishing Jund decklists in the early PTQ Nagoya season to create a baselane “consensus” list.
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.
Pauper is the best format that you’re probably not playing. A healthy Eternal format with some of the coolest decks you’ll find? And it costs a fraction of any other Constructed format you can find!
In this article, Usman discusses how to take a pool of cards and pare it down into a cube list that can be used for drafting using a sample section from a commons cube. Hop in!
In a special holiday-timed post, Usman breaks down two of the latest presents from our glorious Wizards overlords and shares some of the key steps he takes in making the most of every look at cards for cubes!