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Constructed Magic is the soup du jour, and it seems that all kids currently love Extended. The PTQs for Pro Tour: Showbiz are well attended, with many a mage searching for that elusive spark to catapult them towards a Blue Envelope. Today’s Down and Dirty sees Kyle bring three decks to the table. Two of them incorporate Morningtide cards, and one was made in collaboration with Luis Scott-Vargas. In fact, it’s a deck template that has a rather proud legacy…

…It also has the more practical use of being a one-mana Time Walk when your opponent drops an unsuspecting…

…While we want players to feel rewarded for understanding complex rules interactions, we don't want players to walk themselves…

Commander is a friendly format for some, another competitive format for others, but one thing it doesn’t need to be is dishonest! Which of these untruths have you heard around your recent Commander clashes?

…The might still walk over you, but at least you went down swinging. Lie: Running one counterspell can be a…

It seems in just about every single Oscar Tan article – and quite frequently in other Type 1 articles – the phrase”This is Type I, broken things happen” plays like a theme song you cringe to after hearing a gazillion times. About two to three months ago, after reading the latest iteration of this phrase and grinding my teeth in irritation, it occurred to me: why should Type 1 have the monopoly on that phrase?

…br> <br> Hey, it really is just like a Time Walk! Bringer of the Black Dawn<br> <br> Nearly all…

…For those of you who don’t spend much time on the tube, the top left is Dexter, top right…

Zombies had quite a good showing at the World Magic Cup, with three copies in the Top 4. GP Brisbane champion Jeremy Neeman tells you why he thinks Zombie Pod and B/R Zombies are good choices for the SCG Standard Open in Denver.

…and Gut Shot can be legitimately a zero-mana Time Walk. The other card I love more than most is…

…The fact that it has split second is irrelevant in limited about 99% of the time, but you’ll still…

We offer our condolences & are honored to present Matthew Keene with a forum to say a few words about his good friend & SCG Standard Open: Charlotte winner Stevie Kaufmann, whose life was cut short due to a car accident.

…That’s where I met Stevie for the first time. He was a little brother from the start; I think…

…Most of the time, it is just wrong to cast it turn 2 and walk into a Force Spike. Chances…

…Time Walk Time Walk (Turn) 6. Tinker Tinker (Tutor) 5. Morphling Morphling (Creature) One of the best five creatures in…

…You can make a giant 20/20 Marit Lage, or Time Walk a bunch of times, or just win the…

…As you become a more advanced player, though, there's a fine line you're going to have to walk…

…Value after the Standard rotation? The only cards that will stay Standard legal after the rotation are two Walk the…

Holed up with an inflamed throat, Jim recuperates by playing decks… A LOT of decks. And while he’s at it, he shares the deck massaging he’s done over the past two weeks.

…A week away from work when you can’t swallow and have headaches all the time is no holiday, finally…

…In this mailbag, you'll find questions from old-time members, first time tweeters and even a Wizards of the…

…Most of the games swung back and forth and it was unclear who was actually winning at any given time…

…The anti- Time Walk tech is icing on the cake. Finally, the bane of both Frodo and Modern, The One…

Glenn talks about a couple of Dredgevine lists that recently cropped up on Magic Online. Check them out before Grand Prix Richmond at the beginning of March!

…Most people would rather just walk away! Recently, I spotted a few noteworthy attempts to carry the torch onward in…

…wastelands can get maximum use as mana, and to time walk against decks that rely on getting 4 mana out…

…Showing Lotus, Time Walk and Mox Sapphire. You reinforce the idea that Type 1 is all about restricted expensive cards…

Wednesday, December 2nd – I want you to play something original at States. Something which will cause passerby to take a double take; that will cause your opponent to agonize while sideboarding; that will go down in history as a fresh creation if it makes Top 8. Let me show you my contribution to the cause…

…Let me walk you through the archetype. The deck is much heavier on Black than Blue, and the manabase reflects…

…All right, Top 5 time! 5. Krasis Incubation – I don’t know if you have noticed, but green occasionally receives…

Shaheen is giving it all he has, but he admits freely that he is struggling to defeat the mighty blue delve spells. See the lists he’s been grinding before the $5,000 Premier IQ at #SCGCOL!

…alone allowed me to walk<br> into one of the biggest GPs of all time without a day of testing…

…Excellent! Now it's time to prepare. Innistrad is somewhere you won't want to walk around unprepared—and you…

It’s Release Week on Magic Online, and that means one thing… Planar Chaos Sealed Deck! In today’s Online Outlook I share four complete Release Week cardpools, and the decks I built. I’m looking for your input… come share your views in the forums!

…As an eighteen-year-old, setting out on a university adventure, I did the patent “non-smoker cough” every time…

…He goes a little slower this time. I almost lose because there is this fine reporter filming our match. I…

…one piece at a time. Wayne and Aleksi in particular shouldered into Simic pretty hard. Wayne would nail down a…

…Hulk, Skullclamp, Sol Ring, Strip Mine, Tolarian Academy, Time Vault, Time Walk, Tinker, Trinisphere, Umezawa's Jitte, Vampiric Tutor, Wheel…

Thursday, April 16th – The three cards that currently define Standard: Bitterblossom, Spectral Procession, and Cryptic Command. A number of decks bring two of the three to the table: Faeries has Blossom and Command, for example. However, none of the main contenders packs both Spectral Procession and Cryptic Command. Today, Richard attempts to fix this…

…Sometimes you cycle it and tap their guys and it’s just straight-up Time Walk. It really doesn’t…

…and then play around it all the time, or to just walk into a trick that you do have. By…

…Approach Now that you have taken the time to notice these factors, which as time progresses will become a reflex…

Going to play in Champs this weekend? Josh Silvestri has some important reminders that you should definitely think through before you sit down for round 1 on Saturday.

…However if you lose a significant amount of the time in game one, you’ll probably pay for it against…

Brad Nelson is grinding SCG Tour ® stops, the Magic World Championship, and Pro Tour after Pro Tour! But he still has time to get the decklists you want for #SCGINDY weekend! If you still need to find your identity in Kaladesh Standard, you can count on Brad to help you out!

Next weekend marks the first time Wizards of the Coast’s ideas about the new way to release sets will…

Tuesday, April 27th – There are many ways to gain an edge in competitive Magic. In today’s illuminating edition of The Nose Knows, Kyle Boggemes counts down the first five of his Ten Card Commandments, each one a surefire tip that’ll improve your game and help propel you to the next level. Do you have what it takes to be the best? Read on to find out!

…Over time, I have learned many tips and tricks that are often overlooked, tips that allowed me to go from…

…I was not completely sold on two copies of Dig Through Time and Steam Augury. Dig Through Time seems very…

…Reading play signals is important, but I would be wary of the possible pitfalls I could walk myself into. Without…

…Getting a four-mana reduction on an expensive spell like Expropriate or a Time Walk is cool on the front…

Bennie shares some of how his dad, who recently passed away, impacted his love of gaming. He also tells you why you should join him and the Golgari Swarm guild for Return to Ravnica.

…One thing that’s helping during a time like this is learning things about my dad I might not have…

We may be on the home straight of the Extended PTQ season, but that doesn’t mean there’s no work to be done. Thankfully, Pete has taken a lot of the hard slog out of the equation — today’s Yawgmoth’s Whimsy brings us the runners and riders from last weekend’s Madison PTQ. All Top 8 decklists, metagame analysis, and more!

…More rants about Blue? Maybe next time. Undefeated and untied? Yeah, I was judging. Being married to the head judge…

…Ziegler walk over after my match with Russell and we smile at each other acknowledging a rematch. Last time I…

Friday, July 25th – Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. This week we’ll take a closer look at Eventide and detail its impact on Standard and Block, cover my own Top 16 performance at last weekend’s Kentucky Open, and get ready for the upcoming PTQs, Nationals, and more. Let’s go!

…This super Time Walk is enough to put me out of range of winning at all. I have to swarm…

…as possible before the lock as well as [Card] Time Walk [/Card]ing your opponent. Now that I have a…

…The lead designer on *Tempest* takes this opportunity to walk through both design and development in order to explain how…

…Zealous Persecution to two for one them and essentially time walk? Well it's pretty satisfying. -4 Maelstrom Pulse<br…

…It was a great time had by all and a great learning experience leading into Pro Tour Gatecrash, now just…

…He can walk past Thragtusk and Angel of Serenity and will typically always trigger due to trample. This allows us…

I have played some standard on Magic Online lately, and my favorite deck right now is monoblack control. I have done quite well with it, winning something like 70% of more than a hundred matches. Is this good? I haven’t played a lot of Standard in Magic Online before, so I don’t know if you need like 75% wins in order to show that the deck is good. The opposing decks did seem okay, if we exclude the guy who used Cabal Ritual to power out a speedy Dusk Imp.

…How are things? I was a bit of a mess some time ago. You see, I happened to be part…

…Still, if decks get lazy and there are control decks that give time for Urza's Rage to go large…

To the surprise of absolutely no one, Tom “The Boss” Ross found the latest in a long line of aggressive decks that mean one thing for him: Victory. Read about how Tom went from dominating Poker one weekend to dominating Magic the very next.

…The last time I qualified was through Grand Prix New Jersey, which was Legacy. Grand Prix Columbus is this weekend…

Brennan DeCandio reveals the Modern list he’d play at SCG Milwaukee if he were making the trip before looking to Magic’s post-Dominaria future! Mox Amber is the obvious place to start, but Brennan has greater ambitions…

…Lingering Souls Having spent fifteen rounds in Dallas a few weeks ago casting Lingering Souls time and time again; having…