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 – 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 t... 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: Rich Man, Poor Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man, Thief James LaPage September 20, 2017 The Metaworker Over some of my previous articles, I've received a fair bit of feedback regarding budget deckbuilding. I'm fairly blessed with a big collection and a decent amount of disposable income, so my first instinct whe... Read More...
The Metaworker – Casual Deckbuilding Part 2 James LaPage September 13, 2017 The Metaworker In the last article - Casual Deckbuilding Part 1 - we picked a win condition, brainstormed some supporting strategies, chose a colour identity and a commander, and created a few advanced Gatherer searches based... Read More...
The Metaworker – Ixalan and Returning Set Mechanics James LaPage August 30, 2017 The Metaworker In just about every set, we get a mix of new and returning mechanics. Mechanics are things such as keywords, keyword actions, and ability words that are used on multiple cards. When sets are designed, you'll of... Read More...
The Metaworker – C17 and Functional Redundancy James LaPage August 23, 2017 The Metaworker For the past few sets, I've been trying to outline my thoughts on deckbuilding and how they impact my assessment of new cards. Today I'm going to continue that theme and talk a little bit about functional redun... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: A Different Shade of Green Ben Iverach-Brereton August 21, 2017 Rants of Valakut Back during the release of Commander 2014 and the mono-coloured preconstructed decks, I was looking to put together a new deck. I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to make, but I was seriously considering somethi... Read More...