Bryan Gottlieb lays out where new decks can thrive in Innistrad: Crimson Vow Standard and lays out his five favorite MTG lists for the set’s release.
…A limited Time Walk effect has long been a thing for Mono-Red decks, and at a moment where if…
Chris VanMeter takes a look at Aaron Barich’s Naya Aggro deck, which made Top 8 of the first Open & won the second at #SCGDAL. Prepare for Standard at #SCGBALT!
…I actually scoured over both of his decklists for quite some time looking for Burning-Tree Emissary *and* Flinthoof Boar…
…I'm sure many of you have seen this sequence play out time and time again. Player A is playing…
…This may not be true at all sites but many tournament organizers are taking the time and space to set…
…draw cards after all) but you got a small « Time Walk » and took 2 instead of 5. This is the…
Shaheen is obviously all about control for this weekend, but it may surprise you to learn than he’s got an experiment underway in his deck selection. See what the control expert is changing in his play methods!
…It may work from time to time, but control thrives on consistency. The ability to extract a Dragon or counterspell…
…It can let Emergent Ultimatum resolve! Just don't give them the Time Walk and you can untap and kill…
…Game 1 took a rather long time. This time I'm going first. I side out my vendettas, side in…
What if I played Magic like Yoda, the diminutive Jedi Master from the Star Wars movies of George Lucas? I have some ideas on what would happen. I also have some ideas on what black Judgement cards will do to Type 2, but they’re not nearly as amusing.
…Will the card be this good all the time, in practice? No. And it will still suffer from the same…
…Set Mechanics Planeswalk Spatial Merging Chaotic Aether Time Distortion *Planechase* introduced the concept of planeswalking in-game. This was folded…
After stomping around with Dinosaurs, Bennie Smith turns his attention to Ixalan’s other new major tribe: Pirates! And after he’s done explaining his Admiral Beckett Brass build, you’ll be joining her crew in no time flat!
…So when it came time to sketch out a Pirate deck built around our new Pirate lord, Admiral Beckett Brass…
…This may not be true at all sites but many tournament organizers are taking the time and space to set…
Wednesday, November 18th – Think back, if you will, to Standard a year ago. Shards of Alara had just come out, and the format was still largely dominated by Lorwyn Block. Faeries was the undisputed champion if the format, and even more so before Time Spiral ripped Ancestral Visions from its despicable hands. Now I want you to think about what happened whenever someone pitched an idea for a new deck.
…It was the same *every* time. “Does it beat Faeries?” Every single deck concept of that time period needed to…
…All in all, I have no space, time, or money to solder things, so this is the best option for…
…Finally, I couldn’t afford most Time Warps, but Walk the Aeons was just a buck. That was an automatic…
Bennie brings us a potpourri of topics today, including the uselessness of Steamflogger boss, the etiquette behind Internet Messaging, and some Two-Headed Giant decks. He also shows us a draft deck that, quite frankly, made my eyes bleed… one that not even Craig Jones would play.
…This time I draw eleven lands and four spells, which was highly frustrating. I always take my time to shuffle…
Shaheen is a veteran that players listen to! When he speaks about Modern, it pays to listen! In the wake of some Modern showcases at SCG Baltimore and SCG CON, it’s a good time to turn a critical eye to the list as we know it!
…Exarch in hand, you had to bluff it and Time Walk yourself to prevent<br> sudden death. It was miserable…
…It was time to rumble! The only thing I said when I posted the pairings was that, for each match…
…Haste also resembles Time Walk for creatures in that they generate an additional turn of value, the real value of…
Monday, September 13th – In light of the fact that poison’s returning in Scars of Mirrodin, I thought it would be a good time to revisit all of the cards that can win you the game.
…Even a simple Boomerang will act as a super- Time Walk. By itself, it’s just not too great. It…
Damn, it’s been awhile since I posted a column, but unfortunate times have fallen upon me. What’s a man to do when life beats the hell out of him? I decided to separate myself from my issues and return to playing a more competitive form of the game. Thus you, my faithful readers, get the reward of seeing what I’ve been working on for Block Constructed.
…If you don’t have Seshiro, then you can drop Hokori or Time of Need for him and lock the…
…play a quick [card]Archangel of Thune[/card] and Time Walk him multiple times while swinging the race more and…
Wow. I have to say I have been very pleased with the response to my last article. While a lot of it consisted of things like "Bennie, you’re an idiot– the foils you suggested are horrible," the main thing was that I struck a cord out there. People *do* care about the prize support for…
…While that time is done pretty much over now, unique prize cards can capture some of that excitement. “Dude, where…
…If you don’t draw a basic type, then you effectively time walk yourself every turn of the game, and…
…Meloku really shines in this match-up, as Affinity really has a hard time dealing with a semi-infinite stream…
What does a Legacy Open winner need to change before a huge Grand Prix New Jersey event? Turns out, not a ton! Check out this Jeskai Stoneblade report from the player who took down last week’s Legacy Open.
…intensive, and something as simple as a Daze can Time Walk you. On the plus<br> side, it’s great…
…I look at my cards one last time and offer her my hand. There are tears in my eyes. She…
…The first time I realized this was almost 20 years ago, when I was driving around Staten Island with my…
…We passed some time debating the color wheel – with the exception of one juvenile male, they all believed blue is…
…I'd decided this time around that I couldn't really be bothered travelling up to Scotland next weekend for…
…Them: “So you’re running Mirror-Mad Phantasm combo? Me, grinning like an idiot: “Nope!” Them: [walk away] If the…
…All in good time, dear sister, all in good time. Your loving brother,<br> Geralf | | Geralf, Your love of the…
…Now, this was a different time, as Restoration Angel had not been printed, but even now, outside of Restoration Angel…
…Sometimes Magic is all about multiverse-spanning disasters, like the catastrophic time rifts of the *Time Spiral* Block. Other times…
MTG, welcome to Slime Time. Bennie Smith explores the many ways to build around Slogurk, the Overslime in Commander.
…The wording of its triggered ability means we can’t grow it fast; each time Slogurk leaves the battlefield you…
Deckbuilding guru Mike Flores identifies five common patterns and problems in Standard and shares cheap solutions that can give you an edge at your next SCG Standard Open.
Last week I had the chance to spend some time with an enthusiastic new player a few days after her…
…Tide, the mass reanimation of Entreat the Dead, the Time Walk'ing of Temporal Mastery and the mass removal of…
Using green cards to ramp is pretty much the standard, but what if we could do it in another color? Check out Adrian Sullivan’s latest powerful blue Ulamog deck for the #SCGINDY Standard Classic!
…Overall, I don’t like to walk into an event like I did, on a deck I hadn’t worked…
Trying to figure out if you are still progressing or if you have hit a personal plateau can be hard, especially if you are still achieving successes in the meantime. With that in mind, Pro Tour Champion Ari Lax looks at his recent events to see where he’s at.
…due to it just decaying over time. Instead of a biased random walk, I need to be much more focused…
Mike Flores, author of The Official Miser’s Guide , goes over what went down in Standard at #GPAbq and #SCGPROV last weekend so you can be ready for #SCGOAK next weekend.
…with basically anything, while the other can proxy a Time Walk given the correct opponent. It’s about having *something…
Thursday, March 20th – The best way to build decks without relying on twenty-dollar rares is to use commons and uncommons that are key to your strategy. But aside from opening packs, where do you get all those key uncommons? Believe it or not, Wizards has been giving you a way to get them for years – the preconstructed decks.
…So let’s take a walk through the history of the preconstructed deck, paying special attention to key commons and…
Flipping coins isn’t always what we look for on competitive cards, but what if this one was pushed THAT far? Patrick Chapin is ready to put on a show with the Showstopper! Join him for a ton of analysis and lists featuring the latest version of Rakdos’ eponymous leader!
…Doom Whisperer So, how good is Rakdos’ ability? Well, let’s walk through this. First,<br> let’s assume, for…
…So Many Changes, So Little Time As usual, the quantity of great improvements to the beta client exceeds my time…
…Because of how I build decks, there has almost never been a time that I looked for cards that add…
…In 1996, *Magic* players had to name their fear for the first time, and they just called it “the Deck…
…On the bright side, not only did we learn a lot, but we also have plenty of time to get…
Erik Tiernan was a new Commander player at some point just like all of us. So what’s the best way to share Magic’s most fun format with friends? Erik talks about loaner decks, why they’re important, and what they must consist of to safely bring rookies into the fray!
What do you bring on Commander days? Every time I pack my bag for Magic, there are two decks that…
…This time around, instead of predicting the end price I'm simply going to analyze these cards based on two…
Friday, May 9th – I have spent the past few weeks rambling around the new possibilities with Shadowmoor in Standard, poking around from good idea (Merfolk love Cursecatcher!) to bad idea (Mono-Green 36 creature deck!) as we wandered around the format.
…Some thoughts were interesting — I expect to see Firespout as a key player in the new format, and Time Walk…
If you want some crucial advice on deckbuilding, playtesting, or anything else that contributes to being a successful competitive player, Pro Tour Hall of Famer Patrick Chapin has an excellent piece this week that is not to be missed by #SCGCOL hopefuls!
…Can you subtract that time expenditure from your preparation time, leaving more time to play games? ● Making plans takes time…