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…I spent a lot of time investigating this theme. For example, in *Urza's Destiny* (the set where I was…

…Next week, I'll walk through all the changes. The Returning Mechanic 0233_MTGEOE_Main: Tannuk, Memorial Ensign *Edge of…

…Nanka-Bruce, one-time front-page article on The Dojo (this was a big deal at one time... just ask…

Two-time SCG Invitational Top 8 competitor Shaheen Soorani tackles the Return to Ravnica spoilers released thus far with his usual control spin.

…Don’t get distracted by Wizards’ obvious attempt at revitalizing Golgari/Rakdos within Jund, and instead walk with me down…

…Also, the scope of the project had gotten bigger even though they only had half the time to design it…

…Aether Heart used to be about a 6-mana Time Walk. And that’s a nice bonus, but we’re…

…Many comments are being made about the time of the tournament. It started right on time, and is flying along…

We’ve got the full spoiler at our fingertips! That means Chas Andres can spill the Magic market beans on the ups, the downs, and the cards to keep an eye on when it comes to Battle for Zendikar finance!

…combo shenanigans and paying six mana for a regular Time Walk just isn’t that<br> good. Part the Waterveil…

…Azorius Guildmage – I also have a hard time believing that an uptight, follow-the-protocol, Azorius lawmage would walk the…

Monday, November 24th – I just looked through Magic’s first six expansions, hunting for old bargains – every card in Arabian Nights, Antiquities, Legends, The Dark, Fallen Empires, and Homelands – and all I could wonder is, “ HOW THE HECK DID MAGIC SURVIVE? ” Still, just as I looked through Alpha last week hunting for cheap cards that will be useful in a variety of multiplayer decks, this week I trawled through a wealth of absolutely terrible cards to pull out the gems. And here they are.

…3 Some folks go, “Well, High Tide was one of the best combo decks of all time!” And then they…

…To be named a knight of Ardenvale, aspirants must walk through the flame, for its magic can detect selfish people…

Friday, April 9th – The day before leaving I woke up to the following Facebook status: “Brian Kowal is in Kuala Lumpur. As far as I can tell, it’s just a big mall.” I chuckled, after all the tournament site was part of one of Malaysia’s largest megamalls, and during a tournament there is little time or incentive to get out and see anything else. Leave it to Mr. Kowal to make the best tongue-in-cheek quip about any situation.

…spend a lot of time getting there (in this case twenty hours reading and watching movies in an airplane); set…

Today’s Online Outlook charts the past week’s Metagame Shift on Magic Online. I present twelve Top 8 breakdowns for your pleasure and perusal, and we can see just what’s winning — and what’s losing — in the ever-changing world of Magic Online. Does Dragonstorm still destroy? Is Gruul Cruel? Does Gruul actually rhyme with Cruel? Inquiring minds want to know!

…It seems strange, as a turn 2 Silhana Ledgewalker followed by a Moldervine Cloak does seem strong enough to walk…

Monday, January 3rd – The MTGO Revolution is afoot, according to financial MTG expert, Jon Medina. Which formats should you start investing in for 2011?

…There used to be a strategy among traders to go into Standard tournaments with Standard staples and walk out with…

The best way to get out of a Modern disaster is not to get in one in the first place! Jadine Klomparens shows the disaster states against three key decks and how to avoid them.

…its first +1/+1 counter, the first time it attacked your life points, the time its friend Thalia’s Lieutenant…

Drawing from his experience at #SCGINVI last weekend, Mike Flores provides you with five tips to win more games of Magic. Check them out before #SCGMINN and #SCGKNOX this weekend!

…There were lots of cool decks and varied viable strategies to play at the time. My favorite deck I have…

Carsten takes an in-depth look at the differences between Legacy’s two most popular Show and Tell based decks: Sneak and Show and Omni-Tell.

…retrieve Eladamri’s Call and hard cast an Emrakul, Time Walk, and all with Omniscience. These different plans come with…

…If they weren't sandbagging cards to begin with, this really is a straight Time Walk in the mid- or…

…I'll revisit this at the appropriate time. Eric Taylor: Cards versus Time<br> /articles/sideboard-sb20010924a<br> http://www…

…Xenk, Paladin Unbroken Xenk, Paladin Unbroken Xenk, Paladin Unbroken is another aura payoff, this time granting exalted to those auras…

After playing Snapcaster Mage for 10 rounds of Legacy against decks ranging from Dredge and Reanimator to Merfolk, Zoo, U/W, and B/W, I feel comfortable telling you that Snapcaster Mage is a better Legacy card than Dark Confidant.

…Other times, you play against Merfolk five times and want to flip the table every time you draw a Stifle…

The Wishes bring back something casual Magic really needs: The home field advantage. Play at my house, play against my whole collection!

…At the same time, we need people to write innovative and interesting articles. We need people to write for casual…

Yesterday , the mighty Mr Card Game tackled some of the Standard metagame’s stronger contenders, discussing them in relation to the coming rotation. Today, he continues on his noble quest to dissect all things Standard in time for Champs, and peppers the reader with his usual brand of off-topic humor and anecdotal irreverence. All this, and cheesecake too!

…We’ve already seen at least one solid six-drop from Time Spiral (with shadow, even), so there’s a…

…I didn't expect to be cascading a change through multiple decks this time around, but it's still fun…

…This affects four tables this time, and it’s already now seven minutes into the round, and by the time…

Yes, the Player of the Year Race has been updated over on the Mothership, and Rich Hagon’s back from the trenches to tell you what it all means. Four Grand Prix tournaments and a mighty fine Pro Tour come under the spotlight with his trademark sentences that should have stopped many words ago, but seem to take on a life of their own, which is understandable given that, if you’ve ever met the man, you can see the… More. Here. Click. Now. (See, that wasn’t so hard now was it?)

…how to walk the walk as well. With U.S. Nationals coming up in ten days time, it’s hard…

…But what's the use of being able to walk the planes if they're not worth visiting? A big…

Friday, January 28 – Jason Ford is a 19-year-old student living in Minnesota and almost made Level Four last year but came up short. He’s off to a killer start this season with a GP win under his belt. Read about the winning U/G Scapeshift deck!

…I’ve been playing Magic since around Time Spiral and have attended<br> the last five Pro Tours, though only…

I didn’t get an a lot of time to prepare for this Grand Prix, so I was very happy…

My last article talked about the basic flaws in aggro decks and why they were historically annihilated. Now I’ll to try to help you out a bit when constructing an aggro control / combo deck for Vintage. We’ll start by breaking down some of the more successful aggro decks of the past and see what can be applied to today’s models.

…The fact is Trinisphere was such a huge tempo swing and created multiple Time Walk’s for the deck, since…

…Cards like Flux Channeler show that this time around, R&D was willing to be a bit more aggressive with…

I have two unique qualifications, both of which allow me to tell you exactly why Abe Sargent’s proposed “ Abeth Edition” Core Set would be disastrous for the future of Magic… and why, despite the fact that it would be a disaster, Wizards may have to follow Abe’s lead in the next Core Set anyway.

…Having witnessed a number of first-time players trying to walk their way through a game, I can tell you…

Friday, August 28th – I just wanted to thank everyone for their great feedback in the forums the past week regarding Part 1 of my EDH primer – you all certainly provided some fantastic information for EDH fans new and old to further enrich the community that’s sprung up around this fun format!

…Just check with them ahead of time if you really want to play one of those guys. Reindeercards offered up…

Tom takes an introspective look at his experiences at the recent Extended double feature weekend at the Star City Game Center in Roanoke, and muses about how to give the universe no choice but to send you to Hollywood.

…At the end of that game, he topdecked an Orim’s Chant that he used as a Time Walk to…

…in response, they've hit you with a pseudo-Time Walk. Fortunately, Bruenor Battlehammer lets you get your first equip…

…Yes, it's time to start whetting your appetite for the second piece of the *Lorwyn* block. As usual I…

I think I can be the next Rizzo, or at least a reasonable facsimile… And so I’m going to go over the Judgement cards for Constructed, a color a day, while including foul jokes and unrepentant humor.

…I play and write about it all the time and I think I do a pretty good job. I have…

…The War Room started at 10:30 with a promise that all other tournaments would start on time. I like…

Right now, the card that has me the most torn up is Mobilization. I love that card. I was enamored of it back when it was first printed in Onslaught, and I’m no less taken by it today. It makes token Soldiers, no less. They have Vigilance. I can make as many as I can afford to pay for. What’s not to love?

…Heaven forbid you should have to show up on time somewhere: BOSS: Simpson! This is the third time this week…

Kaldheim First Impressions week kicks off with Standard. How do SCG’s creators rate Goldspan Dragon, Doomskar, and more?

…Time Walk effects have been dominating Modern lately so I don’t see why that aspect of Magic wouldn’t…

As I write this, people all over the world are looking at all of the available decklists from this weekend (and previous weekends) that are available at Wizards of the Coast’s website. Whether by stick or carrot, Wizards has managed (at least in theory) to get all of the tournament organizers out there to provide their Top 8 lists. As Mike Flores has already said, we haven’t seen this kind of depth of information available since the days of the Dojo. But really, it is much more than that. We’re living in the middle of the longest Grinder of all time.

…over time as well. Some Blue/Green Madness decks, for example, have begun to include Stifle. Don’t walk into…

…The group will clear you if you all walk in at the same time, and you can point suspicion at…

The last poll was a landslide…an Astral Landslide! Today Drew Levin takes a cornerstone of one of the most feared decks of a decade ago and fixes it up for Legacy!

…Let me walk you through how it all started. My first thought after seeing that Astral Slide was the poll…

…Temporal Manipulation and Time Warp can be replaced with a variety of budget-friendly extra turn spells like Walk the…

…I am a member of Team Milking Time. For team trios, Jesse Wilke, Chris<br> Benafel, and I had been…

…Throughout Day One, each time Scott Marshall, the head judge, took a few minutes to remind us to play efficiently…

…Remand can make things tricky as it is basically a Time Walk for them that also reads “draw a card…

Tuesday, January 20th – Designing an unbeatable Phase Three deck is interesting because you really have to solve two different problems. The first is “how do I avoid dying” and the second is “if I take it as a given that the game is going to go on for N turns, how do I ensure that the likelihood of my winning the game keeps increasing the longer the game progresses?”

…a 3-0 more closely than anything outside of Time Walk, Ancestral, Lotus, Shelldock Isle, Capsize, or Sol Ring. Those…

While trying to figure out what deck to play at Grand Prix Richmond this weekend, Todd has been exploring Reanimator decks in Modern. Read on to see what he’s come up with.

…The main problem with counterspells is that they effectively Time Walk you and sometimes worse. Often you will need a…

…And when was the last time you got to play Desert Twister in a deck? Or huge Spiders? So on…