Jason Ford returns to the Magic scene at full form, making 2nd in Standard with Twinblade. More importantly, he shares some good memories and tells stories of the shenanigans that took place over the weekend.
…I really hate being in these sorts of situations—my opponent<br> clearly messed up, but at the same time…
Due to some timing issues, Chris couldn’t finish the Rat’s Nest evolution article this week, but in its place you get a budget deck that includes some swell things to do with three colors, Lifespark Spellbomb, and Eradicate.
…back home and still a long walk from their destination. By the time he and Maler had gotten to the…
Friday, February 18 – Patrick Chapin Top 8ed Pro Tour Paris with a Grixis Tezzeret deck – read how the deck came to be and how it works! If you’re thinking about running the deck at StarCityGames.com Open: DC, you better look here first!
*“One time, be Jace, the Mind Sculptor. Please, just one time, let me draw a Jace, the Mind Sculptor. ”* My…
Modern is a proactive format, huh? It doesn’t get much more proactive that suiting up a one-drop into a giant monster that can’t be touched! Emma talks about her evolution of the traditional hexproof archetype for the #SCGRICH Classic!
…it buys can translate to what is effectively a Time Walk or two. Last weekend I sleeved up Hexproof for…
Conspiracy: Take the Crown has provided a ton of new toys for Commander mages! Aggro mages included! See the latest commander Sean has starting a melee all over the format!
…If we want to maximize our damage output, it means attacking three people at the same time, preferably with multiple…
…He turns toward a distant peak and begins to walk again, his steps surer now. Soon, only shallow footprints remain…
Ben Friedman has become a total Delver addict: he played the card in both formats at SCG Open Series: Worcester. Read what he thought of his decks to see if you should play one or both at SCG Open Series featuring the Invitational in Indy.
…You just borrow the cards the first time, because you’re certainly not going to be playing it long; just…
We’re back, Planeswalkers! Last time, we decided as a community to leave behind the musical aspect of our plane…
Patrick Chapin kicks off his famous set review for Ixalan with the white cards! We’ve already seen hype for Tocatli Honor Guard, but what will “The Innovator” do with the set’s Vampires?
*Ixalan* is here, but for the first time in a long time, there isn’t a Pro Tour on the…
So what you have with Skullclamp is a whole lot of people who know how good it is going to be and a smaller – but still substantial – number of people trying to figure out how to beat it. The thing is, you can’t necessarily go up against a Skullclamp and attack it directly. That’s like trying to play a G/W deck full of Uktabi Orangutans and Monk Realists in an attempt to beat Trix. Sure, you can technically destroy their relevant permanents, but you can’t do so in a timely enough manner for it to matter.
…Third, and most importantly, Culling Scales is a Time Walk. If you follow a turn 3 Culling Scales with a…
Ross Merriam, ever so humble, had tepid expectations for the big Legacy Grand Prix last weekend. In this hilariously self-deprecating report, Ross shows you the human side of a grinder and gives you some great advice for #SCGRICH.
…With some time to look into other decks and some extra motivation to expand my range before the Players’ Championship…
…Let's walk through who these people are: @maro254 This is me. I'll go for days at a time…
…time was only 16) that he needs to “behave” himself inside. But knowing Chris, anything is possible. We walk up…
…Tezzeret glanced back as she landed lightly behind him, silent compared to the heavy metallic clang every time he fell…
…It's important to go back and review one's material from time to time, and a framework is necessary…
Wednesday, July 9th – Reveillark… the Standard deck to play if you don’t fear the Fae. This entertaining combo deck is fantastic against the rest of the metagame, but Faeries is a tricky proposition. At Grand Prix: Buenos Aires, Gerry Thompson rocked out with his own personal build of the ‘Lark. While he didn’t quite make the Day 2 grade, he has some interesting ideas on the archetype and its place in the current metagame.
…On turn 5, my hand is four Vivid lands and four five-drops, so he gets to Time Walk me…
…If we suppose that every time a card is reprinted its price drops by half (which seems a stretch, but…
…Volt Charge powers up my shrines, and my attacking force all at the same time and this card ends up…
…The existence of Brainstorm greatly decreases format diversity in the same way that Ancestral Recall and Time Walk have basically…
…For this series, I'm going to walk through the history of tokens and explain the evolution of token design…
Pro Tour Champion Shaun McLaren shares some important lessons too often overlooked by the Magic subculture. The Magic community may ignore this work at their own risk.
…You’ll spend your time<br> living in an imagined fantasy world, or be re-chasing unmatchable highs, instead of…
Todd Anderson has seen the light and is all about some Outpost Siege! See the list he’s posting up with at Grand Prix Miami this weekend!
…Soulfire Grand Master Again, nothing exactly new, as we’ve seen this crop up from time to time in small…
Today’s Innovations comes fresh from the trenches of Grand Prix: Daytona Beach. Patrick shares his Sealed pool, and hands out a few tips on how to make the best use out of a substandard cardpool. He also regales us with tales of his spectacular week, and teaches us that valuable lessons for both Magic and life can spring from the most surprising of places…
…Time to GP for the first time in over five years. Here was my card pool: Overall, while not the…
Tim Aten’s drafts are not only informative but enjoyable to read, too! Check out his walkthrough where he has to decide some interesting picks.
…Let me know in the forums if there are any specific archetypes you want me to walk through next time…
I had to take a little revenge, because people were actually telling me how lucky I was that I had this great team to carry me to my PT win. This stung a lot, so I was set on posting a very good result at the next tournament. Too bad for all the other Dutchies, the next tournament was Dutch Nationals. I had two weeks to test for it after I got back from Seattle, so I started as soon as possible. Testing didn’t quite go as well as I had hoped, so in order to find a good deck, all I had to do was talk to the Master.
…Another card that is horrible for you is Welding Jar, as this will basically be a Time Walk for them…
Monday, December 20th – Want a new way to playtest your cube? Thea suggests building constructed decks out of your cube decks to both test the cube and introduce the cube to new players! Try it on your own cube!
…Opposition<br> Sower of Temptation<br> Thieving Magpie<br> Time Walk<br> Birds of Paradise<br> Deranged Hermit<br> Eternal…
Several weeks ago, TnT went toe to toe against the best control players in Virginia and New York at the Virginia States Black Lotus tournament. Can Oscar do any better against a deck that can throw out threats as easily as you throw out excess Tahngarth’s Glares? Watch and see!
…do now is trade cards for time (or turn Mana Drains into Time Walk) – not the most elegant of strategies…
So did you any go to the prerelease? Did you have a good time? Anything unexpected happen? Well, that’s…
…It was definitely a great time. You could see your friends who lived a state or two away from you…
…Thankfully they'd been overruled, but it was a tense time. Now, faced with one astonishing discovery after another, he…
…Before this time, everyone who appeared on the field was in the lineup to hit, including pitchers. Now, most pitchers…
Tuesday, June 9th – The Legacy Banned list includes over sixty cards, the longest banned list of any format in Magic. Doug proposes nearly a dozen cards that could and should come off of the Legacy Banned list. Read why Doug considers unbanning cards that few people will play is a worthwhile endeavor and why some cards that used to have a lot of bite are tame by today’s standards. Get the evaluations before the June Banning announcements and weigh in with your opinion as well!
…After playing it extensively there, I found that the key cards in the Grow deck were Time Walk and Fastbond…
…Yes, there's a time for running through the woods, but there's also a time to sit quietly and…
Zvi Mowshowitz goes over the ins and outs of the Affinity deck that he played at the Modern Grand Prix in Portland a couple weeks ago, where he finished in 3rd place.
…What’s the right sequence of plays? What can I afford to play around? The majority of the time there…
Tuesday, February 9th – Everflowing Chalice is a curious card. A lot of folk think this is no more than a terrible Mind Stone, while others believe that a terrible Mind Stone is actually very desirable. Adrian Sullivan believes it could open up a slew of cool interactions, and he brainstorms the subject today.
…In a world with Time Walk, some cards simply aren’t playable; Vintage has more legal cards, by far, than…
…I had known I wanted to go for a long time – Barcelona is beautiful this time of the year, and…
…It is coming up on its third anniversary and in that short time we've become one of the top…
When I sit down to play a game of Magic, nothing delivers the goods like Super Grow. Because the things I enjoy doing the most in this fine game, namely, drawing tons of cards, countering everything thrown at me, and beating my opponent bloody with cheap and arbitrarily large creatures is what 3cThreshold does best.
…Telling Time is certainly an interesting card, but it isn’t appreciably better than Impulse or Strategic Planning. And all…
Monday, August 9th – Hello friends! Welcome back to the column dedicated to the casual side of Magic. Today is my 350th weekly article for StarCityGames.com. In celebration, I was trying to brainstorm a good idea. I realized that I like big decks. Why not build a deck of 350 cards?
…I took the time to look at creature removal spells, artifact and enchantment destruction spells, answers to planeswalkers, what mana…
…Spellseeker's best targets are Ancestral Recall and Time Walk in Cubes that have them as potential targets. For some…
Wednesday, January 7th – Packing considerable hate for the main strategies in a given metagame has been a noble tradition in Extended formats past. Mike Flores brought us Green/White Haterator, Zac Hill created Green/Red Terraforce… and now Richard Feldman brings us an exciting amalgam of the two! Could this be the next big thing in Extended? Read on to find out!
…At the time, some decks to beat were Storm Combo (specifically TEPS, for those who were around), R/W Beatdown…
…Untapping your lands is almost always relevant, and the two abilities together are almost a Time Walk. Once you are…
…It was strange, for the first time in 4 years I didn't have anyone who I talked to daily…
…things from the last time they looked at it. All I have to do is walk in the door, and…
…It is a different take on the Time Walk strategy than we examined last week; as you can see, it…
What’s the second-most played Scourge card in Type I? What’s the average casting cost breakdown for all Type I Top 8 decks in 2004? What does a 36-24-36 woman really look like? The answers to all this and more are just a click away!
…46 Mox Emerald 46 Taiga 43 Mox Jet 41 Time Walk Arabian Nights Antiquities The Dark<br> <br> 58 Tormod…
I’ve been playing Magic for nearly 14 years now, and I’ve always dreamed of going to Nationals. Since I haven’t ever qualified, I could really justify the expense of flying to Florida or California just to hang out, since what are the odds of actually qualifying through the Grinders? This year though, Nationals was in Baltimore, a short three-hour drive from Richmond, Virginia, so I knew I had to go…
…While I didn’t compete in Nationals, I was able to *finally* go this time, and I’ll chalk that…
…It's not hard to see why this leads to degeneracy---they're lands that Time Walk opponents. Deathrite Shaman…
…When I'd finally mustered up the courage to move, I raced up the stairs three at a time, envisioning…
…The time to rant is now. I do hereby call for the resignation of Zac Hill for La Ciudad de…