Today Mike Lanigan looks at underplayed Modern cards. These cards are undeniably powerful, but for whatever reason have yet to catch on. Mike makes the case for jamming them in decks and picking some up as specs.
Swords to Plowshares
A lot of the power and consistency of Vintage comes from the availability of tutors. Scott discusses Oath of Druids and Tinker this week and discusses how the introduction of Dack Fayden has caused some reconsideration as to what the best targets are.
Adam shares the new Modern deck and explains the card choices that all-time great Guillame Wafo-Tapo played to a cash finish at last weekend’s Grand Prix!
Ryan explores the concept of greed and how it relates to some of Magic’s toughest decisions–when mulliganing makes sense and how building your manabase comes with gains and losses. When should you be greedy?
Is Vintage a stale format? Scott Fielder believes there are many underplayed cards and lots of room for brewing. Today he showcases several unconventional decklists.
Adam goes over results from the first Magic Online Vintage Premier Event, noting a few interesting Vintage card choices.
This week Ryan follows up his previous article discussing Legacy Burn on MTGO with another Legacy list that has an edge against the most popular decks in the virtual field.
Legacy and Vintage have the highest return on investment on MTGO right now, and Ryan proposes a wallet friendly Burn list for you to put some virtual sleeves on and win some packs with.
The v3 client closes for good this July, and the immediate future of Vintage Masters availability is still unknown. Alexander Carl explains how to proceed in the face of widespread uncertainty.
David Schumann covers the juiciest RTR cards to target at rotation this year. These cards will be dropping like stones, and unlikely to be on most players’ minds.
QS’s founder and editor-in-chief reviews everything that happened on Insider this week, including summaries of every article and his Pick of the Week. A great way to get caught up if you’re an Insider, and a great way to see what you’re missing if you’re not!
David Schumann shifts it up today with a Legacy tournament report. Read on for his account of piloting Miracles in a SCG IQ.
Danny Brown covers sundry topics in the Magic finance world today, including the impending releases of Vintage Masters and Conspiracy.