The Metaworker – The Man from Nebraska James LaPage January 3, 2018 Daily Featured Research, The Metaworker One would think that I would use my time off of work over the past few weeks to write a ton of articles for the upcoming year. One would be entirely wrong about that, though. Between visiting my parents and my ... Read More...
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...
