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…After all, you’re paying small amounts of money at a time (sometimes large chunks), to essentially spin roulettes with…

…So any instant speed burn spell can Time Walk us, and without Brave the Elements around to protect us in…

Fresh out of the 883-person event in Columbus, Doug Linn looks back on this weekend’s Grand Prix and sifts through the data for tech and commentary. Find out how useful the information from the GP will be and look at the apparent futility of testing Legacy. Trace the historical development of the Flash deck with insider information and see how many pros he name-checks! All this and more in what Doug promises is the last article about Flash he will write.

…Witness Flame Fusillade / Time Vault. The format will have these things happen again. Flash got a lot of people mad…

Really, I don’t know where to begin with the intro for this one. Sean, it seems, has gone mad… and handed over the bulk of his column to someone else. I won’t spoil the surprise, but if you’re looking for top-notch Standard matchup analysis, this will be the best — and strangest — you’ll see this dec(k)ade…

…in hand, with the second Detritivore counter effectively being Time Walk instead, and holding the damage to a mere swing…

…Time Wipe Fumigate Cataclysmic Gearhulk I'm running eight boardwipes, from the two-color Time Wipe, which will let me…

Kyle Sanchez couldn’t make it to FNM, but instead he’s gotten to thinking about what Magic has done for him and his life. What has Magic done for you?

…The same thing is happening every time we make a decision in Magic, except instead of building muscle memory for…

…Bear on Bear Violence Disrupting your opponent’s game is a walk in the woods for this deck, but how…

Wednesday, February 20th – I loved Reveillark the minute I saw it; I love recursion, and I especially love the progress Wizards has made in giving fans of creatures a good number of ways to fight the menace of Wrath of God and Damnation. Saffi Eriksdotter, Deadwood Treefolk, flash creatures, Epochrasite… Reveillark was a potent addition to the suite of creatures that give a lot of resistance to mass removal.

…As a long-time player of the game, Jon Finkel is all wrapped up in my Magic nostalgia – he was…

…And while I would beat pretty much everything, I had a tough time against combo decks such as Scapeshift, Ad…

Today I will break the art of deckbuilding wide open, just like Mike Flores, though I won’t be so egotistical… I’ll be worse. Let the ideas contained within be your guide to understanding…everything. Now that I have firmly ensconced myself in the upper echelon of advanced and highly-respected format-breaking Magic theorists, I thought it time to give something back to the little people.

…Once upon a time I was just like you. Let me rephrase: I was just like you, but like, super…

…Thinking through games where you are on the play and Time Walk your opponent simply because you cast her turn…

…That means the most important skills to hone over time is your ability to accurately assess and evaluate situations and…

…So whuh? First there’s a revival of merfolk in *Time Spiral* Block and *Tenth Edition* (which turned out to…

…It's set that early because I ran out of time to get things ready the night before: the car…

Primeval Titan, beautiful? Beauty, as they say, is in the eye of the beholder. Mike turns his Titan-loving eye back to one old deck and one new in this installment of Flores Friday.

…Life Gain – Naya Miracles is “rich” insofar that it can Time Walk an opponent’s graveyard and previous turns with…

Thursday, March 11th – Patrick Chapin once wrote an article about Magic etiquette. In that piece, he goes in-depth and discusses the importance of shaking hands after games, and how crucial it is to realize that the phrase “good games” means “thanks for not cheating or being shady” as opposed to “thanks for not getting mana-screwed and actually giving me a run for my money.” I really enjoyed Patrick’s article, but I feel like there is still more to be said.

…So the next time that someone who *clearly* doesn’t understand tournament Magic suggests an atrociously bad card to you…

Glenn looks at the past three Grand Prix worth of Modern results to analyze the top tiers of the metagame and which decks are the top contenders right now.

…Each Top Eight has appeared vaguely similar, with a different winner each time. That’s actually pretty refreshing, considering the…

…The problem is that from time to time the two bump heads. When flavor comes in conflict with function, who…

…Today, I’ll walk you through the deck list that he, as well as Owen Turtenwald and I, brought to…

…It’s tutor lock and time-walk prevention all in one. It’s a popular inclusion in red prison decks…

Tuesday, July 7th – In a recent Magic Online Constructed match, Sam Black and his Faeries pitted their wits against Cedric Phillips and his Little White Men. Today’s Black Magic sees Sam examine their first game from multiple angles, hoping to discover why it is that Ced is so strong against the Fae menace while other Kithkin players appear to struggle…

…I could just be setting him up for a Time Walk off a Terror, but as is, he could have…

…Stax, Dredge, anything Time Vault and turn-one Blightsteel Colossus bring Magical Christmas Land’s most broken, unbalanced cards into…

…Gigadrowse has utility against control (end of turn, tap their islands), but also as a Time Walk against combo decks…

…In a small event, it is very easy to just walk around and note what other people are playing before…

…These murals are changed from time to time (the original plan was every six months but in reality it's…

Read Todd Anderson’s emotional account of his experience at GP Louisville, where he made Top 8 with Mono-Black Devotion, and see if you should pick the deck up for #SCGINVI!

…You make your way into the convention center for the first time. You see some familiar faces and some old…

…Overall, the matchup is positive, but Affinity is a great deck and no deck can say they really walk over…

…Woodland Cemetery | Art by Lars Grant-West Decision time. Do you: Turn around and take your horse on a wide…

…As I’ve noted before, any given Friday night for Magic’s prime demographic is primo party-down time. I…

…Time to practice draft! Saturday 5 PM<br> Feel on top of the world! I am going to walk into…

…Sometimes when we're making a super splashy card (like say a Time Walk effect), we err on the side…

…I walk down the stairs to meet him, asking him what he's doing here. He tells me that he…

Thursday, November 25th – So The Ferrett’s theme for us for this week is “The Best Way to Win.” I’ve decided to tell you about my experience going 0-2 drop in the Sunday edition of Two-Headed Giant at the SCG Open: Boston.

…We made decisions and goldfished and just had a good time spending time together. The day before the tournament Spencer…

Todd Anderson takes a break from the Magic grind this week and gives you insight into the strange and tiring business some of us have chosen.

…Because tournaments are built to create losers, and the only time you can walk away feeling like you accomplished something…

So what are my opinions of the set, from what I saw (which, based on five rounds, wasn’t much)? I’m not sure. It’s keeping with the Timmy-ness we’ve come to expect from OnBC. But unless Mirrodin keeps with the trend of overpriced creature removal, underpowered hand denial, and neutered counterspells, I don’t know how good most of these cards will be in the full Standard environment.

…I was rushed for time to get the deck registered, so I forgot to include my Secluded Steppe in my…

…Phew! Get to Glasgow at some obscenely early time and proceed to tell each other how sealed deck has got…

…It can play a waiting game against UW and refuse to walk into Mana Leak, and since it has inevitability…

…All of my opponents were really cool, and I had a great time.<br> First off, I just want to…

Brian Kibler breaks down the current Standard metagame so that you can be prepared for what you’re likely to face at the SCG Open Series in St. Louis this weekend.

…I really don’t understand how Aaron’s Naya Aggro deck can hope to regularly cast its spells on time…

What can Bloomburrow do for your Cubes? Ryan Overturf sorts through the cuteness to bring you his Top 10 Cubeable cards of the new MTG set.

…This opens up real potential to copy Ancestral Recall and Time Walk in Vintage Cube, and for my money, I…

…One reason I don’t run these cards often is because I don’t like to Time Walk myself. The…

…a fast combo win with Time Vault and Voltaic Key (or even, like, Time Walk) or it continues controlling the…

Friday, 1st of December, 2006 The dark sky flashed and the clouds became illuminated as bolts of lightning struck down across my precious city. I had a date with Eli, and I couldn’t disappoint. I’d had power problems the entire day, but the battle must go on…

…It was two minutes past battle time, but I had outs… I went to the one person in the World…

Back in 2003, Aaron Forsythe wrote an article explaining how R&D looks at the Banned and Restricted list. One of the pearls of wisdom in the article was when Forsythe said,”in general, if a restricted card isn’t showing up in decks, its status probably deserves some scrutiny by the DCI.” I happen to be an expert on what cards are played and not played in Type One, so I figured I should get around to looking at the list right before the June 1st announcement.

…5,_4.0,_5.2,_4.6,_5.6 Time Walk<br> <br> _1.9,_1.6,_1.8,_1…

StarCity’s latest Featured Writer attended the Onslaught prerelease – and he cracked the cards he wanted! Of course, Michael doesn’t play to win… He plays for pleasure, as he analyzes the prettiest cards he saw at his prerelease.

…Cool! So we walk the final mile from the San Diego train station to the venue, staggering in near noon…

…Time Walk against aggro a few times. Most aggro decks just can't handle a massive life swing like this…

Every Cube has its strong cards, but how do you handle power level outliers? Ryan Overturf shares his thoughts and reaches a surprising conclusion.

…Monument to Perfection But let’s say that we all draft and play perfectly every time. Let’s also say…

…Although I said some good things last time, much of what I wrote was just dead wrong. Sligh and Stompy…

After the announcement that Land Tax was unbanned in Legacy, Drew Levin immediately got to work brewing with it. See what he’s come up with to make opponents regret playing lands!

…After all, Sunday was the first time I sleeved up not- Brainstorm in sanctioned Legacy. There will be time for…

From Sword of Fire and Ice to Sword of Once and Future, an artifact cycle two decades in the making is finally complete. Ryan Overturf pays tribute and ranks them for Cubes.

…The absolute dream is flashing back Time Walk, but the average best-case scenario is closer to Chart a Course…