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...
The Metaworker: Threat Assessment Part 2 James LaPage March 22, 2017 The Metaworker If you're looking for part 1 of this threat assessment series, you can find it here. Last time we talked about a few basics of threat assessment. This week we’re going to dive right in and use some of thos... Read More...
The Metaworker: Look at the Board and Think about It James LaPage March 8, 2017 The Metaworker So after my last article went up, I hit the streets looking for some lessons that people have learned from losing games. As promised, here are some of the best: Reddit user /u/Wolrund: I actually have a g... Read More...
The Metaworker: Teferi Tax/Lockdown and Symmetry Part 1 James LaPage January 11, 2017 The Metaworker In the past few weeks I’ve had a considerable amount of feedback on these resource denial articles, so I figured I’d keep the ball rolling and take an even deeper dive into the archetype to pick apart how t... Read More...
