The Metaworker – Building and Disrupting James LaPage December 20, 2017 The Metaworker 1 Lately we've been talking a lot about trade-offs and opportunity cost—the idea that doing one thing means you're acting at the expense of doing something else. If you have a budget of $20 to spend on ... Read More...
Un-Un-EDH James LaPage December 7, 2017 The Metaworker Before we begin I wrote the bulk of this article before Sheldon Menery's rules announcement on Friday, December 1. I won't be brewing silver-bordered EDH or incorporating any of the cards into my decks because... 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 – 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 – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor James LaPage June 28, 2017 The Metaworker Jim LaPage: Origins Early in my EDH career, my all-star deck lineup consisted of Aurelia the Warleader (double combat), Kresh, the Bloodbraided (double +1/+1 counters), and Vorel of the Hull Clade (d... Read More...
The Metaworker: Threat Assessment Part 3 James LaPage April 5, 2017 The Metaworker Today we’re going to be rounding out a three-part series on threat assessment in Commander. If you need to get caught up, part one (turn zero threat assessment, the mulligan, and when to leave mana up) is h... Read More...