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Pauper Ponderings: Mono White Guardians

Austen Hoey
April 5, 2018
Pauper Ponderings
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This week on Pauper Ponderings, we're playing Mono White Guardians. This Aggro-Midrange deck looks to pressure the opponent with aggressive creatures like War Falcon and Kor Skyfisher. While being able to go lo... Read More...

The Metaworker: Building Jank with cEDH All-Stars (Part 1, Jundarude Landstorm)

James LaPage
April 5, 2018
The Metaworker
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It’s been quite awhile since I did a segment on brewing in Commander. I recently released an article about brewing in Brawl, and I spent a lot of time explaining my thought processes and rationale behind includ... Read More...

Channel Nikachu: Merfolk in Modern with Maindeck Chalice of the Void!

Nikachu
April 3, 2018
Channel Nikachu
This week, a modified Mhayashi list: Lands1 x Gemstone Caverns14 x Island4 x Mutavault1 x Oboro, Palace in the Clouds Creatures4 x Silvergill Adept4 x Coralhelm Commander4 x Harbinger of the Tides4 x ... Read More...

The Metaworker: Samut has Joined the Brawl

James LaPage
April 2, 2018
The Metaworker
Last week we talked a little bit about Brawl, the new format dropping with the release of Dominaria in a couple weeks. Over the past few days I’ve been looking at the tools that are available to us in this form... Read More...

Modern Musings: The Top 5 Winners of the Un-Bans

Michael Shapiro
April 2, 2018
Modern Musings
Hey Everyone! This week on Modern Musings we are going to look at the state of Modern after the unbannings and see what impact it has had on the format.  Enough time has passed that I think we can draw some con... Read More...

Rant of Valakut: Modern Horoscopes

Ben Iverach-Brereton
April 2, 2018
Rants of Valakut
THAT WHICH WILL COME TO PASS What deck you choose play says a lot about who you are, but you may not realise just how much it does. It is a little known fact, but the Modern metagame functions much the... Read More...

Cubism: Masters 25 Recap and Dominaria Preview

Aaron Paquette
March 31, 2018
Cubism
Aaron and Drew are back this week talking about Masters 25 and Dominaria! Recapping everything Masters 25 'changed' in the cube world and discussing the upcoming Dominaria set mechanics and Planeswalkers (thank... Read More...

The Metaworker: Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain and Fringe Storm Decks in Commander

James LaPage
March 30, 2018
The Metaworker
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So I know I’m not the only one whose jaw dropped when the new Jhoira was spoiled. As most of you know, I play a lot of Izzet so I took a crack at brewing. This is pretty rough, but I’d love to get a discussion ... Read More...

Pauper Ponderings: Quicksilver Storm

Austen Hoey
March 29, 2018
Pauper Ponderings
This week on Pauper Ponderings we're playing a fan submitted deck. Quicksilver Storm! Using creatures with untap abilities, Thermo-alchemist and Zephyr Scribe, and enchanting them with Quicksilver Dagger. Once ... Read More...

Constructed Criticism 224: Questions for Jadine Klomparens

Spencer Howland
March 27, 2018
Constructed Criticism
https://youtu.be/m8Zg17AmN98 Spencer and Michael are joined by SCG Grinder and GP Top 8 competitor Jadine Klomparens @quietfish They talk Sultai Snake and let the listeners ask Jadine questions Follow ... Read More...
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