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…Skirges are great but you can't cast<br> another creature along with them and they are Shock /double Fantastic…

…A 2/3 creature is not the worst as it can contribute meaningfully to most combat steps and a Shock…

In this article, Usman Jamil discusses changes to the Magic Online Cube with the addition of Gatecrash, which was used at the Magic Online Championship.

…tended to act too often as a sorcery speed Shock than Flames of the Firebrand acted as a three-mana…

Five-time Grand Prix Top 8 competitor Ari Lax breaks down the Modern Masters Draft format just in time for Grand Prix Las Vegas. Be sure to check out this handy guide!

…4 Flying (Pardic Dragon) | | Removal | 5 | Shrapnel Blast | Sudden Shock | Tar Pitcher | Thundercloud Shaman | Tribal Flames | | ----------- | --- | ------------------------------------- | --------------------------------- | ------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------- | | Trick | 0 | | | | | | | Other | 0…

Need ideas for Standard at SCG Open Series: New Jersey featuring the Invitational this weekend? Look no further because Patrick Chapin has a bunch of brews for you!

…This is going to shock you, but this isn’t the only Grixis deck I have been thinking about recently…

Last time out, the inestimable Mr Menendian dealt with the ups and downs of the Vintage year from January to June. Today’s article deals with the second half of the year. Stephen breaks down the results from the major tournaments in the latter half of 2006, and shares some of the stronger decklists that appeared along the way. The future for Vintage in 2007 looks very rosy indeed…

…Sudden Shock — it’s perfect Welder removal for those who want better splash damage than Darkblast against Fish. I consider…

The spoiler is up; the set reviews are coming. I’m going to look at the set, too, but I’ll analyze it from a multiplayer perspective. Limited specialists can tell you how to draft it, and I haven’t tested enough to give you States previews, but multiplayer? I can do that. Is this a powerhouse set for multiplayer? Read on.

…With this, any repeated life gain effect can be a Shock – even Tanglebloom. This could fit into the RW beatdown…

…1 Rishadan Port, 1 Stone Rain, 1 Pillage, 1 Shock and 1 Idol. In other words, I won that game…

…anything that does 3 damage, so he can only shock me down to 3 life. Will's Sligh deck was…

Mike Flores, Breaker of Metagames, brings us a fresh Extended deck that took him to within an inch of success of his last PTQ. Harnessing the heady power of 4/4 monsters — a trait that would make Jamie Wakefield proud — has Mike finally achieved his seasonal goal and broken the format? You’d better be prepared to face this deck, because folk will run it come PTQ time.

…and assumed I was going to finish with Sudden Shock or something, which would not have been impossible. Go rogue…

BBD writes about his evolving feelings for BTT Draft, shares some stories from Grand Prix Philadelphia, and tells you how he feels about a few new Journey into Nyx cards.

…The huge limiting factor is the shock land mana base. I think these matchups can be improved, but I’m…

…The foam padded layer can provide good buffer and protection to your internal stuff against shock and drops. High elastic…

The ability to drop the Lightning Greaves out and then give a new creature haste each turn is quite good (and it’s not just for combat; try these with mana creatures!) and in many cases the untargetability will also be highly useful. The problems come up when other equipment starts showing up and you can’t get the Greaves off so that you can put the other Equipment on (let’s face it, monsters have a scary tendency to die in Standard), not to mention the bigger concern – namely, that the Greaves are outstanding when the first copy hits, and you do want it early, but that second copy is a whole lot less sexy than your second Bonesplitter or Plate.

…Even in Standard, this card gets access to options like Boomerang, Terror, Shock, Raise the Alarm – even Mana Leak can…

Make sure all your decks have a chance against green. Only one of our decks could beat opposing fatties consistently, and our performance suffered because of it. Try to build your decks in such a way that at least two of the decks can handle any given matchup without problem. On a similar note, make sure all the decks have some answer to the premiere commons that other teams are likely to have – like Sparksmith, Wellwisher, and Lavamancer’s Skill.

…In a moment of honesty (don’t die of shock on me), I will reveal to you what is currently…

You don’t care about my tastes in music. You don’t want to hear me quote lyrics from people funnier than me. You sure as hell don’t care about my copy of BASEketball. You came here to read about Magic.

…bot (32/1 or 64/1), some cards like Shock and Volcanic Hammer are basically *always* good. So, there’s…

424 competitors, and the results mean something different for everyone. 177th can mean Level 3 for next year, 17th can mean falling out of contention for Player of the Year. Let Rich Hagon be your guide round the men and math of Pro Tour: Valencia, including his inimitable explanation for the non-victory of Dredge, your very own Andre Mueller Home Impressions Kit, and more!

…This may come as a shock to many of you, since at most tournaments it’s close to a scoreless…

What’s that you say? Wakefield is playing a deck that actually wins? Now this I gotta see!

…Both stall for a bit and just Terror and Shock each other’s creatures. Slith hits the board and gets…

Justin Parnell is back just in time to review Dragon’s Maze! See which cards he thinks should definitely make cubes and which ones should be left behind.

…The fact that you can grab the Shock part of Jilt makes this a tad sweeter, but it does cost…

…Not to mention that you also need shock lands, triomes, and sometimes even lands like Cavern of Souls that really…

I wish Aphetto Vulture cost one less. But it doesn’t. So, I’ll have to live with it? Will this be one of the secondary themes for this block:”Good but too costly”? I hope not.

…trampler. He costs seven? Ask me if I care. Shock<br> <br> Karl Allen kept saying that morph was going…

…as my walls were unable to block the repeated Shock, I immediately realized my mistake. Early game this guy is…

…And Zareth, a merfolk with shock-red hair and a braided beard. Of the four, he was the only one…

…Game 2 - He starts to burn me, first with a Shock and then with a Volcanic Hammer. He then gets…

…Unholy Heat Unholy Heat Unholy Heat ranges from a simple Shock to the biggest creature/ planeswalker -directed damage spell, provided…

…He has a really strong RB aggressive deck featuring 3 [card]Goblin Fireslinger[/card]s and 3 [card] Shock [/card…

…She approached the opening of the temple, but suddenly recoiled in shock as a pale white hand reached out from…

…To my great shock, and delight, I had managed to maneuver my “pile” to<br> second seed going into the…

…That all began here, as well as the new shock duel lands as well. The introduction of power cards like…

Ari breaks down every relevant deck in Modern: why you should consider playing it, what it is bad against, how to build it, and how it matters in the big picture of the format.

…This deck also takes advantage of the common shock-fetch mana base of the format. Every time they fetch, that…

…Apart from that, what we have here is a two mana (cost + equip) Shock, that requires an untapped creature without…

…This should not come as a shock to anyone, *because Modern players did not know this connection in August 2014…

Although Gatecrash doesn’t offer cubes as much as Return to Ravnica did, Usman highlights some interesting cards and nice tools it does give us to work with.

…modes aren’t as strong as Izzet Charm’s (Shock / Spell Pierce / Careful Study, for the most part, > Unsummon / Giant…

…The shock knocked all three of them to the floor, and in the rapidly pulsing light, none of them saw…

Cassidy McAuliffe reminisces about experiencing Ravnica the first time around and drops a fresh Commander deck based around Rakdos, Lord of Riots, the new guild leader that he’s dying to pull from a pack.

…There’s going to be a little sticker shock on this one; the grand total to purchase the whole list…

…Aggro decks can utilize the shock without any help, but the big reason I expect this to see play is…

…But this ability also means that it can be killed by a Shock, bounced by a Waterfront Bouncer or even…

It’s been a while – probably too long – since I reached into my male bag. I mean, my mailbag. Without further ado, let’s see what interesting stuff is in here. As usual, I’ll be changing the names to protect whatever dignity people have left after writing to me. Unless they want me to use their name. In which case, I will decide if they’re just going for Internet immortality or if they’re being genuine.

…budget for rares, but some of them, like the Shock lands from Ravnica, are really expensive. How do you budget…

Jay unearths one of his more popular series of all time that were once lost from the StarCityGames.com archives.

…that make the deck scary are the support cards. Shock, Assault / Battery, Fires of Yavimaya and Artifact Mutation are all…

…hanging, sweat-drenched tussle of white hair with its shock of raven black at his forehead. The mist halted its…

Ari Lax has pulled out all the stops! Whether you prefer one chart to look at or well over 6,000 words of analysis, his latest Manageable Modern entry will give you plenty to think about as you shape your deck for your next Modern event, like the #SCGINVI!

…How much interaction can you actually play? Does it kill Death’s Shadow (aka not Sudden Shock)? Even if your…

…After getting over his initial shock, Koll discovered that his Tyrite hand was able to handle the godly material safely…

…Cold shock washed over her. It was horrifying. And worse still, her family, all dead trying to end the evil…

Sean’s previous attempt to take a sledgehammer to Time Spiral Block Constructed involved pairing that perennial nuisance Teferi with the shambling behemoth Spectral Force. Today’s offering brings a little more finesse… actually, that’s a lie. This Block deck is Big, Green/White, and has a face that only Flores could love. However, is it strong enough to kick seven bells out of the prospective Yokohama metagame?

…And good against Damnation, maybe… but terrible against Split Second removal like Sudden Death and Sudden Shock. Still, pretty good…

EMERGENCY PREAMBLE: As I finish up this article Wednesday morning, I see that Signore Ferrett has just posted an article on…threat analysis in multiplayer. D’oh! But mine is better. No, not really; but it does have a fun quiz. And I use really cool words like "implicit" and "explicit"; Ferrett’s still chewing on the plural…

…warn off an attack than the possibility of a Shock. A Treetop Village on the board (with two other mana…

…The fact that it can ignore red removal like Shock or your own cards like Pyrohemia is just gravy. *Avalanche…

Friday, January 30th – The Conflux prerelease is tomorrow, and with it comes our first taste of Shards-Conflux Limited. But before that first taste tomorrow, we can take advantage of the fact that this set has been quite effectively spoiled well ahead of the game, with the complete set known about a week or so before the pre-release and the names of all the cards “common knowledge” for practically months.

…deck design… and some more reasonable removal, with a Shock -Banishing and our landcycler of choice being about equal to…

Mike Flores wrote an interesting article on degree of difficulty. I found the Flores’ article interesting not because I strongly disagree with him – but because I think the real issue is worth exploring: what skills does Type One test? Vintage is clearly unlike any other format. Nick Eisel once described some in-game analysis contained in one of my articles as “bizarro world.” Rather than compare Type One on a better or worse scale, this article will explore and explain what I think are the critical skills Vintage players must have to be successful.

…time at the Power 9 tournaments, because it would shock you all. Knowing when to scoop is an absolutely essential…

Hey, no less a man than Anthony Alongi called Stijn”The S**t.” With compliments like that, how can we NOT make him our latest Featured Writer?

…I’ve already told about Shock not being bad. But I think I would use Searing Touch, for it has…

…more red for creature elimination in the form of Shock, Mogg Fanatic or Incinerate as the old Counter-Phoenix decks…

Pro Tour Champion Ari Lax returns with one of the most important Limited articles around! See positively everything you need to know to understand Fate Reforged Limited, so that you can dominate your Prerelease and the drafts beyond!

…Wild<br> Slash, we just have to look at Shock in Onslaught block. The tempo swing on the card is…