Monday, March 7 – Sean McKeown, Commander enthusiast, lays out the social implications of multiplayer Magic and how you can use it to your advantage, not to your detriment.
…A big Living Death is great, but it’s not even good anymore when somebody sees it coming and tutors…
Rich Hoaen is one of the best young Limited players in the world, having made 1 Top 8 appearance and 3 Top 16s in his last four Limited Pro Tours. Today Rich tells the story of his latest Pro Tour exploits, and StarCityGames.com is happy to welcome him to our growing staff of excellent writers.
…Fortunately I found myself living very close to one of the best Magic players of the middle generation of Canadians…
Bennie shares the story of teaching his 10-year-old son how to play Magic with his Marrow-Gnawer Commander deck against his Child of Alara / Maze’s End deck.
…Commander decks currently on hiatus: - Yeva, Nature’s Herald (living at instant speed) - Nefarox, Overlord of Grixis (evil and Spike…
Friday, December 10th – Bennie played U/W Clasp in the grinders at the SCG Open Weekend in Richmond featuring the Invitational. Failing there, he played Elves at the Standard Open. Read about all the moments in his weekend!
…worth playing, just as its what makes life worth living, you know? Today I thought I’d share with you…
…Night Corpse Hauler Corpse Traders Crow of Dark Tidings Death's Approach Douse in Gloom Drainpipe Vermin Drana, Liberator of…
The Kaladesh Inventions are the first in a jaw-dropping new series from Wizards of the Coast! The questions about Magic finance coming from this announcement go on forever, but fortunately, Chas Andres is on call and ready to sort the storm out!
…False Demise Even if you did want to blame subsets for the death of baseball cards, the comparison to Masterpieces…
…Episode 6 Huatli mourns the death of her cousin as she cradles his body on the blood-soaked ground he…
Check out this creative writing piece by four-time StarCityGames.com Invitational Top 8 competitor Brian Braun-Duin to start your new year off right!
…Everyone present and all living organisms within a three-mile radius were instantaneously snuffed out. Heliod picked up his spear…
Wednesday, September 29th – Is second place and the $6 in store credit worth upsetting a good in-League relationship? Sheldon debates what it means to play to win and more in his EDH column!
…A board wipe or two comes along, and then it all goes south when Scott casts Living Death, getting back…
…let every ear Be stopp’d against the song! ’tis death to hear!” —Homer, *The Odyssey,* trans. Pope | U | Chippy…
…ERRATA 1) *Invasion™* “Divvy” Cards<br> The *Invasion* cards Bend or Break, Death or Glory, Do or Die, Fact or…
Chas takes a look at the eligible cards that didn’t make it into Modern Masters & tells you which ones might be coming back & which ones you should pick up before it’s too late.
…Rafiq of the Many, Death Baron, Tezzeret the Seeker - Banned Cards: Wild Nacatl Ajundi showed up long after Modern Masters…
…The most popular ancestor of All Hallow's Eve came in *Tempest*, with the advent of Living Death. In current…
Friday, April 10th – Last Friday night I was hanging outside Richmond Comix with Jay Delazier between rounds, and he mentioned he didn’t like last week’s column very much. When I asked him why, he said he thought I was contradicting myself…
…Still, he gets a rather slow draw and while I get picked to death with small critters I try and…
…They would support a heavy recursion deck fairly well - perhaps run one copy each of Living Death, Dawn of the…
…He took my death. Help me give him back his life.” Beledros cracked an eye open and looked at her…
Sheldon breaks down the top new cards and most interesting reprints from the Commander 2013 decks, available for play starting this Friday!
…One Sepulchral Primordial there and a Clone in someone else’s means a one-sided Living Death for the tempter…
Friday, February 25 – After a bad day of Sealed, Todd Anderson decided to crush the PTQ at GP Denver. His Wargate deck took him all the way to Top 8; try this Tier 1 deck for your next PTQ!
…creatures, as well as three living weapon equipment to help beat my opponents to death before they could cast their…
Today’s offering is going to plumb the depths of flavor concealed within the Legendary creatures of the Time Spiral set, all the while attempting to do something which most flavor reviews are either uninterested or incapable of providing – words directed to people who like to actually win a game once in awhile!
…one might expect, serving to nurture the living with both life and death, giving a sense of inevitability to his…
…Even though Living Death will be but a memory, you will still want some anti-graveyard cards against decks with…
…On top of that, since creatures are sacrificed, it gets around indestructible and regeneration, truly living up to its name…
…The Standard metagame is a dynamic, living, being that evolves from week to week. Success in Standard comes not just…
Mike Flores discusses the importance of Technology: what is it and how does it interact with our resources? How do we stay on top of the curve?
…We don’t have to get all specific about it beyond the fact that iron kicks the living spit out…
We have a lot of new decks to work with thanks to the Open, but we haven’t seen them all! Bennie Smith has an awesome new idea that should stir the brewers out there! It’s morphin’ time!
…ish) • Ghave, Guru of Spores (Melira Combo) • Glissa Sunseeker (death to artifacts!) • Glissa, the Traitor (undying artifacts!) • Grimgrin, Corpse-Born…
…Thankfully Death Wish is a sorcery. Guiltfeeder - I like this card quite a bit more than most people if only…
…I also had mono-white Death and Taxes almost ready but just couldn't pull the trigger. I liked my…
…Arnie Swekel (60/143) Death Charmer<br> 2, Creature - Mercenary 2/2, Common<br> When Death Charmer does combat damage…
…If you aren’t on the Living Death plan, and you’re on a tribal build, it’s a great…
Thursday, April 8th – With the Extended PTQ season on the horizon for San Juan, I decided I would make it my top priority to find out what deck was the best, and just play that. I feel like I’m a decent enough player to pick up the best deck and do consistently well with it, and especially so if I play with it enough…
…During the second day of play, I lost yet another mirror for similar reasons, as well as a Living End…
…In hearing of the mafia church guild, its life and death, and ways its taxes have a very subtle progression…
…Place of death: Bunarat. Cause of death: arson. Witnessed by: Captain Dhiren Baral. Baan worked the controls, and a spotlight…
…The villainous planeswalker Tevesh Szat, bitter over the death of his sister, became determined to end all civilization on Sarpadia…
…Please note, I won't be covering the legends discussed in Living Legends of Dominaria or Legacy Legends of Dominaria…
…Some other sacrifice outlets that you can consider include Smothering Abomination, Krav, the Unredeemed, Living Death and God-Eternal Bontu…
PTQ-Tokyo, Columbus, November 18 Friday, November 17: Episode one, and stuff. The moment I realized that I couldn’t take it back, I wanted to. That was then, this is not only now, but the future as well. No takebacks here. No bootlicking for amnesty. Where do I go from here? To the losers bracket, slick….
…Disk, Juggernaut, Sol Ring, Pox, Sylvan Library, Serra Angel, Living Death, and Ashen Ghoul, as well as the complete set…
Not only does this provide the ultimate smash-face black deck, but it brings you the all-time great Magic misquotes!
…it decided to switch controllers again when someone cast Living Death / Reins of Power and in that way stole the…
…Like the fact that said guy probably didn’t have the ideal living conditions when he was growing up. That…
…but can get better with Thalia and Path postboard. Living End 2-1 This is the same as Amulet Bloom…
…It's an Equipment Artifact but also a living weapon. It creates a 0/0 token Creature alongside itself and…
…GINGER, a living gingerbread woman, is riding a wildly charging steed made of gingerbread across a tabletop! She is using…
With the Time Spiral Block Pro Tour just around the corner, Craig “The Professor” Jones is forbidden to talk of super-secret Block technology on pain of catapult. Instead, he takes a long look at the Top 8 Standard decks from Grand Prix: Kyoto, and takes us through some of the more questionable predictions he made for the new Standard format when the cards were fresh off the production line…
…Nice Sudden Death in hand, take 11. Ouch. I can’t remember the exact listing, but it looked fairly funky…
…If you have a full graveyard, this demon does a powerful Living Death impression, on top of being a 6…
It isn’t preview season without Chas Andres! He’s crunched the numbers and reviewed the finance histories! Now there’s nothing left to do but tell you exactly which cards you should hoard and which you should ship this weekend at the Prerelease!
…Tetzimoc, Primal Death – $2 Tetzimoc, Primal Death Tetizimoc is on the Magical Christmasland City Council, but it’s still a…
…After the death of Razia, the Boros parun, and the disgrace of the previous angel guildmaster, Feather, warleader Aurelia won…
With SCG States coming up, Bennie Smith has an evil brew that is destined to take down the good guys on the other side of your match table! There could be better decks in the format, but this has to be one of the most fun that is still capable of being highly competitive!
…ish) • Ghave, Guru of Spores (Melira Combo) • Glissa Sunseeker (death to artifacts!) • Glissa, the Traitor (undying artifacts!) • Grimgrin, Corpse-Born…
…I was living in Los Angeles and was a Johnny who enjoyed making weird decks that won in strange and…
Sheldon Menery reviews Commander Legends. What hit? What missed? What does he really think about Jeweled Lotus?
…Opponents graveyards can be scary, and popping this off in response to a Living Death would be sweet. Then you…
Bennie Smith has been monitoring Conspiracy closely, and it’s hit his sweet spot! Get his takes on the set for draft as well as post-draft Commander and Eternal Constructed play.
…ish) - Ghave, Guru of Spores (Melira Combo) - Glissa Sunseeker (death to artifacts!) - Glissa, the Traitor (undying artifacts!) - Grimgrin, Corpse-Born…
…Mine was a Black and Green list with cards that I can vividly remember, such as Living Armor, Scathe Zombies…
…Turnabouts had no impact on the situation, sometimes postponing death for a turn but not preventing it ultimately. I played…