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Delving with Devin: Is Frontier Dead?

Devin Wiess
March 24, 2017
Delving With Devin
Welcome back to this weeks episode of Delving with Devin! Today we're going to delve off the deep end into frontier! What's Frontier? Its a casual eternal format where all cards printed from M15 forward are leg... Read More...

Rant of Valakut: A Strictly Worse Snapcaster

Ben Iverach-Brereton
March 6, 2017
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Knowing when a 'bad' card is better than its more powerful counterparts is an important skill to have. Dismissing cards out of hand by saying that they are 'strictly worse' than something else doesn't really do... Read More...

Delving with Devin: Jund Marvel

Devin Wiess
February 10, 2017
Delving With Devin
This week on Delving with Devin we're once again jamming some Frontier, because it is awesome. And, instead of slinging islands we're going to the exact opposite of the spectrum, we're playing an archetype that... Read More...

Frontier Spotlight: Combo Leaking?

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February 1, 2017
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The 2nd week of Weekly Frontier at Fusion Gaming yielded new and exciting results as different players and completely different archetypes rose to the top! I'm Austen from Pauper Ponderings and I'm back to t... Read More...

Delving with Devin: Frontier UR Ensoul.

Devin Wiess
January 27, 2017
Delving With Devin
Frontier was so much fun last time, I decided to try it again. This time we dropped white and added a bunch of artifacts. Ensoul Artifact proved itself to be a powerful weapon at PT Magic Origins as Team Channe... Read More...

Frontier Spotlight: Week 1 at Fusion Gaming

Austen Hoey
January 25, 2017
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Hello all! Austen from Pauper Ponderings here and today I decided to take a break from recording Pauper videos to try out Magic's hottest format, Frontier!  My local game store, Fusion Gaming, has started to ru... Read More...

Salt Road Patrol: Frontier, Bans, and Dirty Dirty Cheaters

Chris Cardwell
January 16, 2017
Salt Road Patrol
Hey all, welcome to the 7th episode of Salt Road Patrol. Only 3 points today but I have a lot to say about them, so let’s go: 3) The Frontier Format Now I’m probably gonna get a lot of hate for th... Read More...

Delving with Devin: Frontier Jeskai

Devin Wiess
January 13, 2017
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This week on Delving with Devin, we delve into the world of Frontier, a format comprised of M15 forward. With Khan's fetches and powerful multi-coloured spells mixed with the crazy world of Innistrad, it has be... Read More...

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