The Metaworker: Building Jank with cEDH All-Stars (part 2, Riku Hulkmorph) James LaPage April 11, 2018 The Metaworker Last week I hope you had as much fun as I did brewing a casual Ad Nauseam deck. “Casual” and “Ad Nauseam” don’t usually fit in the same sentence unless it’s something like “This Ad Nauseam deck is perfect for s... Read More...
The Metaworker: Building Jank with cEDH All-Stars (Part 1, Jundarude Landstorm) James LaPage April 5, 2018 The Metaworker 1 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...
The Metaworker – Deckbuilding Resolutions (part 1 of 3) James LaPage January 17, 2018 The Metaworker Well, it's January. For many people, that means breaking old habits and perhaps even starting some new ones. While I was looking back over the articles I wrote in 2017, I noticed a theme—I talk a lot about what... Read More...
The Metaworker – What’s in a Colour? James LaPage January 10, 2018 The Metaworker I think Magic's colour pie is one of the more interesting things in the world of gaming. Wizards, in their efforts to develop a rich atmosphere for the game, has assigned certain things to certain colours. If y... Read More...
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...
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...
