Friday, December 10th – Back-to-back winner of two SCG Opens, Dan Jordan went into the Invitational with high expectations. He then went 7-6 but came out a new man in other ways.
…Although my 7-6 performance was lackluster, to say the least, I still had a great time being in Virginia…
…Although Sarkhan doesn’t know it yet, when he stepped through the gate, he traveled back in time 1,280…
…Seize the Day - I beat David Price with Seize the Day, which was effectively a Time Walk in that game…
…This is what I've been waiting a very long time for. It's time to go crush some bad…
…If you don't see any of those cards in the pack it might be time to figure out what…
Ari Lax tells you about how he won the Legacy Champs this past weekend with Death and Taxes. Find out if you should try playing the deck yourself this weekend at #SCGDAL!
…you time to chain into the next and eventually Time Walk locks your opponent into oblivion. The first time I…
…who equate every silver-bordered experience with “that one time when Unhinged was released.” It’s your call. This option…
Pro Tour Champion Ari Lax uses the Versus Series experiments to try to pick the best decks to battle with at the very unique SCG CON No Banned List Modern event!
…Hope of Ghirapur seems<br> like a welcome addition in a combo heavy, Time Walk rewarding format. I<br> could…
Thursday, July 2nd – Everyone seems to know me as the Faeries guy, and, in all fairness, for good reason. Spellstutter Sprite has carried me to two Pro Tours and won me countless matches online. However, what’s far lesser known than my alignment with the winged menace is my affiliation with the Reveillark collective.
…It was one of the best decks to play last year in Time Spiral -Lorwyn Standard, and it’s one…
…the design team, and walk you through the set's design. Sound good? Same Time Next Year So, back in…
Until last year, Terry Soh was just a kid from Malaysia who couldn’t get a draft in his home country. Now he’s a bonafide Pro Tour star, with two Grand Prix Top 8s, a National Team slot, and two Pro Tour Top 8s to his name. How did this leap occur? Terry thinks you can do the exact same thing he did, and he’s willing to give you the steps necessary to accomplish just that.
…I improved from my mistakes time after time, but I’ll touch on that point later in this article. Magic…
…I've followed this method of thought to success over time and have improved myself as both a player and…
…As such, it's time to find out if it can get it done! Today we are going to go…
…Last time, Matthew Nielsen fell in his first lost, leaving just Emma LaBelle undefeated throughout the contest. Just before that…
…When the design team locked in on nostalgia as an additional theme, the name “ Time Walk ” was suggested to evoke…
…Time's Up That's all the time I have today to answer questions, but I'll be back next…
Jim takes a look at some more cards in Born of the Gods through his three different lenses and introduces a rotisserie draft he’s been running of his Cube.
…Fate Foretold Stratus Walk Ethereal Armor Ordeal of Thassa Eidolon of Countless Battles In fact, let’s just mash it…
…From time to time I'll ask him what some tool does and it takes him five minutes to explain…
…Just in time for the pre-release. Adam Yurchick reviewed The Mardu Horde and the color red, as well as…
…time to start talking about the design itself. What exactly were the design goals of *Magic 2013*? Let's walk…
Friday, July 4th – Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. This week we’re going to recount the uplifting and saddening tale of the Richie Proffitt Memorial Tournament, take a look at my Exclusive Eventide Preview card, and check out the rest of the latest Eventide spoilers. Let’s go! Warning: Contains Spoilers .
…Mox Sapphire, Time Walk, and Ancestral Recall. “Auction these,” he tells me, “and try to recover that data.” I am…
…Pact of Time Walk? Spear is also capable of going to the dome, especially in multiples, catching a Sphinx's…
…Now it was time to go back to Modern with a deck I wasn’t hugely enthused by to play…
Friday, February 13th – Of all the post-Conflux deck ideas I’d been kicking around, the tweaked B/G Elves deck seemed like the strongest right out of the box. While the other deck ideas were certainly more interesting and different from what’s currently doing well in the metagame, they also obviously needed lots of playtest time to see what truly worked and what just seemed good on paper.
…I take the Thoctar in hopes of slowing him down and forcing the Time Walk while he Charms back the…
Carsten Kotter thinks that Terminus will do big things for hard control decks in Legacy. Read on to see which decks he thinks will benefit from this miracle card. Prepare for post-Avacyn Restored Legacy at SCG Open Series: Providence!
…Seeing how Wizards had just reprinted Time Walk and Wheel of Fortune as miracle cards, I was quite hopeful when…
Do you test cards before you add them to your cube? Usman tells you why he likes to test cards, especially new ones, before he puts them in his cube and shares the testing methods he’s been using lately.
…absolute best deck where Shardless Agent would cascade into Time Walk, but instead to create an example of a deck…
…These actually left the format at the same time through a weird quirk in tournament structure.) This was broken up…
Friday, October 17th – It seems that, despite the loss of some key components, those flighty and fickle Fae are at the forefront of the Standard format once more. With the world going mad over Esper Charm, Luis Scott-Vargas is championing a different, albeit eerily similar, direction. Exactly where can the perfect Faeries list be found? LSV is on the case…
While normally I’m not the biggest fan of Standard, preferring formats where Force of Will is legal, the time…
Guess who’s back! For a set so steeped in Magic’s past as Dominaria, who better to explore and brew with previews than Hall of Famer Patrick Chapin? First up: Lich’s Mastery!
…with a Fireball, a Braingeyser, or a Mirror Universe + Time Walk combo (remember, Lich sets your life to zero). Balance…
…up on *Time Spiral* rules, I'd stick to Gottlieb's more conversational *Time Spiral* rules walk-through, posted as…
Want to see what a Pro Tour Champion sees when they watch SCGLive coverage? Want to know how Ari Lax sees the #SCGDFW Standard Classic metagame? You’re one click away from being way ahead of the curve!
…you are spending cards on non-mana, non-pseudo Time Walk counterspells. I guess Reality Smasher is probably the best…
Wednesday, July 1st – With M10 on everyone’s mind, Kyle Sanchez chronicles the Staples and Potentials coming with the new Core Set. He shares his thoughts on the strongest cards from each color, and tells us how Blue now stands in the power stakes. As you can guess, this article contains spoilers.
…Tokens or Kithkin where it acts as a critical Time Walk to squeeze extra damage, and it doesn’t hurt…
…titans plays out; hopefully, the next time you encounter it, you can walk away with the match slip. The Grixis…
…This time, their companions listened, and the four students ran for the remains of the day as hard and as…
Tuesday, October 26th – Kaloyan Kirilov argues with video content, particularly Draft videos, will soon lose their appeal.
…That is a lot<br> of time and no mistake. And we know why it’s so valuable — because time…
…At the worst this card is a cantrip, and at best it's a Time Walk. This card can even…
…Obviously, this was a pretty shocking turn of events for Basri and it took time for him to discover what…
…By the time other people are playing the good version of the deck, you’re already past it and onto…
Standard is defined by its manabases, and most of the manabases are horrible. What is the best way to spend your mana? Patrick Chapin covers last weekend’s results and looks to Worlds 2011.
…Vapor Snag, each Incinerate, each Snapcaster Mage as a Time Walk, so that your Delver wins the race. CounterBurn is…
Vampires, Merfolk: both names of iconic decks of Constructed formats past. So why haven’t these tribes or Ixalan newcomers Pirates and Dinosaurs made a splash in recent Standard? Ari Lax examines their circumstances and whether they have a chance at SCG Philadelphia.
…Spellstutter SpriteMistbind Clique Faeries had a counterspell on a body and a 4/4 Time Walk. Lord of AtlantisMerrow Reejerey…
Brad Nelson shares his powerful Bant Festival deck for Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Standard and a sideboarding guide to help you win on your MTG platform of choice.
…Whatever it is, finding these plans and then seamlessly weaving them into one cohesive shell takes more time than I…
Last time I wrote about the subtly useful Distorting Lens; this time, I’m writing about another one of those situationally-useful cards that doesn’t do anything on its own and is easy to overlook — Sundial of the Infinite!
…What immediately springs to mind is Final<br> Fortune, a sweet Time Walk variant that cheaply gives you another turn…
I am writing today’s article about some issues that I have with recent changes that Wizards have made, or chosen not to make, in light of Tenth Edition, Master’s Edition, and more. That’s all and well and good… however, Wizards had to go and change the nature of this article between its writing and its publication. I wrote about topics that have a resolution already. Well, some of them at least. That’s okay, because I can highlight some changes n places where they matter, and you can read my false predictions…
…Have you ever been listening to one of your favorite songs and you totally realize that, for the first time…
…this walk through the kinds of decisions that go into making good blocking choices. Join us next time when we…
From the first land drop to the last Lightning Bolt, Tempo Threshold gives you the tools to win any game. The deck will reward players that have the ability to play it well and punish those who play it poorly. Give it a test run before Kansas City.
…decks, Submerge offers a major tempo gain and quasi Time Walk. One of the common plays with Submerge is to…
Part two of Steve’s Combo-Control blowout takes a look at the hottest decks in Vintage, decks that you absolutely must be prepared for if you plan to play at the Power 9 in Richmond this weekend. Smennen tells you what makes these decks tick, looks at the strengths and weaknesses, and then takes a peak at what the future might hold for the combo-control archetypes.
…Recoup is very powerful and enables recurring Time Walk so that even if you can’t win just immediately, your…
For you control players out there, Reid Duke has updated both U/B Control and U/W Control for today’s metagame, so make sure to check out these decklists before SCG Open: Pittsburgh.
…That plan doesn’t work all the time, but I no longer despair when my opponent leads with a Signal…
…Another oddity is that people are cutting Doomed Traveler completely from their deck which I think buys you time against…
…The *spirit* of exalting a single attacker, of having a single important creature, is shown by Time of Need. Sometimes…
Wednesday, May 6th – I’m excited by Thought Hemorrhage. It seems like a strong sideboard card for more than a few matchups, taking away a card that’s a central theme for them before they can deploy it. I know that a lot of people are dismissing it as a narrow card, and I agree that it’s probably not maindeckable, but it still seems relevant in some matchups. Besides, isn’t that what sideboard slots are for?
…I was determined to force Jund this time, as I knew at least two players at the table had a…