Rant of Valakut: Building Delver-Grow (Part 1) Ben Iverach-Brereton October 23, 2017 Rants of Valakut I was still pretty new to Magic when M13 came out, but I remember when the reprint of Quirion Dryad was announced. I hadn't heard of the card before, but I remember there being a buzz of excitement from veteran... Read More...
Final Fantasy meets Magic Devin Wiess October 20, 2017 Delving With Devin Hello everyone, and welcome back to another episode of Devling with Devin, a place where we discuss everything and anything magic related! A few weeks ago, I did an article on ways we can improve competitive ma... Read More...
Pauper Ponderings: Popeye Stompy Austen Hoey October 19, 2017 Pauper Ponderings 2 It's been too long matey! I'm back and hopefully better than ever. This week I'm playing the newest deck in Legacy, Popeye Stompy. What the Pauper version of this innovative deck loses the uncommon and rare "Masques" pirates, but makes up for it with a full... 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...
Simic Merfolk in Modern Ep.87 Pt.2 vs Storm Nikachu October 17, 2017 Nikachu Can the Simic Merfolk weather the storm? https://youtu.be/s228CDfbsf4 Check out his other Merfolk card Primers! Ep.1 Spreading Seas https://youtu.be/nt406K0hJnw Ep.2 Aether Vial https://youtu.be/dRI... Read More...
Modern Musings: Untapping Lands Michael Shapiro October 16, 2017 Modern Musings Hey everyone and welcome to another Modern Musings! This week we are going to be taking a look at one of the more broken effects in the history of magic and how it applies to us in modern: untapping your lands. Now I'm not talking about getting to untap your ... Read More...
Cubism: Hour of Devastation – 3 Months Later Aaron Paquette October 14, 2017 Cubism The Cubism boys are back for a review of Hour of Devastation and what cards are making the cut for cube! https://youtu.be/isI_2zOdmgE... 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...
Jester’s Recap Episode 5: Branding Exercise, Commander Bans, Lightning Round Blake Treleaven October 10, 2017 Jester's reCap 1 Hello Magic Community, It's me, Englishgrinn and I'm here to do my usually once-a-fortnight recap of the shake-ups and happenings in the great Magic community. I don't research or dig deep, this is all off the top of my head. Consider this both a light reca... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Missed Opportunities Ben Iverach-Brereton October 9, 2017 Rants of Valakut With Ixalan here, it means that we have finally seen the blocks of Battle for Zendikar and Shadows over Innistrad rotate out of Standard. For good or bad, these blocks were heavily influential to the format, ri... Read More...