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: Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain and Fringe Storm Decks in Commander James LaPage March 30, 2018 The Metaworker 2 So I know I’m not the only one whose jaw dropped when the new Jhoira was spoiled. As most of you know, I play a lot of Izzet so I took a crack at brewing. This is pretty rough, but I’d love to get a discussion ... Read More...
The Metaworker – A Great Traveling Experience James LaPage February 1, 2018 The Metaworker 2 For those of you wondering where I've been, I've just returned from balmy Calgary, AB. It feels like I've been gone for months, even though it was really only about a week. You can read all about how I prepared... 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 – 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 – 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...
