Ryan details his choices for Standard and Legacy as the Invitational approaches.
Vampire Hexmage
Ryan takes a break from Pauper discussion to explore a fundamental aspect of deckbuilding: coherence.
Speculation and market investment in Magic is in its Golden Era right now. We have access to information at a speed that we never had before in Magic. If you’re spying for new tech, you don’t have to wait for a tournament report on the Dojo or read about it a month later in Inquest – you can hustle over to GGSlive and watch Kibler cast Huntmaster of the Fells in real-time. This article is about Magic speculation and price bubbles in what I am calling the “early modern” era.
What levels of speculation risk you are comfortable with? Is your portfolio diverse enough? Sigmund discusses different Magic card risk levels and explores examples of each.
This week, we are looking at Planar Chaos, the second set in the nostalgia-heavy Time Spiral block.
Coldsnap was an ambitious set, built on a MaRo-driven myth of a lost set. It was created to make Ice Age into a real block, but it fell short of most of its design goals. The designers wanted us to like Cumulative Upkeep, but few of the cards were even playable in draft. There are still some amazing and unexpected gems in the set, so take a look for the money cards of Coldsnap!
Neale polishes off the competitive commanders, and opens the floor for Azuza lists! Think you have the most savage green machine?
Darksteel, the second set in Mirrodin block, is notorious for driving off more Magic players than any other set, even the Urza block. It contained high-power cards for Affinity that did not require finesse to win with. It was like UG Madness in that the best deck was cheap, easy to play and frustrating to metagame against.
You’ve heard about “the danger of cool plays” in Magic. Jules shares with us the danger of un-cool plays, and how to amp your entire Commander troupe’s fun up to 11!
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.
