The Metaworker – How to Shop for a Magic Player James LaPage November 29, 2017 The Metaworker The Holidays are Just Around the Corner If you're reading this, it's fairly likely that you're shopping for a Magic player. It could be a family member, friend, significant other, coworker, or some lucky perso... Read More...
The Metaworker – When the Game is About to End James LaPage November 20, 2017 The Metaworker 2 Buckle up, folks. Today we're going to talk about one of my favourite topics in all of EDH. It's one of the most important threat-assessment skills you can master. In strategy games, you often see people talk a... Read More...
The Metaworker – Who Does This Benefit? James LaPage November 8, 2017 The Metaworker 4 Dennis Lackmeyer and I are taking another week to finish up Seven-Mana Bad Spells Part 3: Amplifying Payoffs, so you'll see that on November 15. If you missed the first two installments, you can check out Part ... Read More...
The Metaworker – Seven-Mana Bad Spells Part 2: Minimizing Setup Costs James LaPage November 1, 2017 The Metaworker 1 Special Guest I’m so excited to have a guest writer with me today. After last week’s article, Dennis Lackmeyer offered up some very insightful comments about cost reduction. It’s a complex topic with quite a f... Read More...
The Metaworker – Seven-Mana Bad Spells Part 1: Setup and Payoff James LaPage October 18, 2017 The Metaworker "Great in Commander" I see this phrase pop up quite a bit when people are discussing big, splashy new cards. Usually this comes up when someone is discussing a card in the context of limited, standard, or mode... Read More...
The Metaworker – The Last 10 Cuts James LaPage October 12, 2017 The Metaworker If you've been reading this series for awhile, you know that one of my favourite aspects of Commander is the truly enormous card pool. I love being almost totally free from deckbuilding restraints, and how I ca... Read More...
The Metaworker – Signals (Part 2 of 2) James LaPage October 4, 2017 The Metaworker If you missed part one of this series, I would definitely recommend reading it before getting into this one. I'll be touching on a lot of the same concepts today. What did we learn last time? In the last epis... Read More...
The Metaworker – Information and Decision Making (part 1) James LaPage September 26, 2017 The Metaworker Lately I've been talking a lot about choices in deckbuilding, so today I want to change it up a bit and talk about a really important concept in gameplay. I touched on this briefly in my three-part series on th... Read More...
The Metaworker: Rich Man, Poor Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man, Thief James LaPage September 20, 2017 The Metaworker Over some of my previous articles, I've received a fair bit of feedback regarding budget deckbuilding. I'm fairly blessed with a big collection and a decent amount of disposable income, so my first instinct whe... Read More...
The Metaworker – Casual Deckbuilding Part 2 James LaPage September 13, 2017 The Metaworker In the last article - Casual Deckbuilding Part 1 - we picked a win condition, brainstormed some supporting strategies, chose a colour identity and a commander, and created a few advanced Gatherer searches based... Read More...
