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Modern Musings: Uncharted Territory

Michael Shapiro
December 4, 2017
Modern Musings
Hey everyone, and welcome to another Modern Musings!  This week we are going a bit into uncharted territory in talking about what I think is one of the biggest sleeper cards in Modern: Realms Uncharted.  Realms... Read More...

Modern Musings: Knights of the Living Dead

Michael Shapiro
November 27, 2017
Modern Musings
Hey everyone, and welcome to another Modern Musings!  This week we are going to be taking a closer look at a card you might have never heard of: Haakon, Stromgald Scourge.  He's a pretty exciting card with lots... Read More...

Modern Musings: The Modern Pro Tour

Michael Shapiro
November 13, 2017
Modern Musings
Hey everyone, and welcome to another Modern Musings! Now that we've gotten Pro Tour: Ixalan out of the way I wanted to take a second to examine what's next for the pro tour.  Specifically, I wanted to talk abou... Read More...

Modern Musings: Spooky Decks

Michael Shapiro
October 23, 2017
Modern Musings
Hey everyone, and welcome to another Modern Musings! This week we are going to get into the spookier side of magic and show you some Halloween themed modern decks!  And since Halloween is all about the monsters... Read More...

Modern Musings: Untapping Lands

Michael Shapiro
October 16, 2017
Modern Musings
Hey everyone and welcome to another Modern Musings! This week we are going to be taking a look at one of the more broken effects in the history of magic and how it applies to us in modern: untapping your lands.... Read More...

Modern Musings: A Plentiful Planeswalker Party

Michael Shapiro
October 2, 2017
Modern Musings
Hey everyone and welcome to another Modern Musings!  This week we are going to be taking a peek at some of the new decks you can make with the changes to the planeswalker rule.  Since I've seen a bunch of Lilia... Read More...

Modern Musings: Pirates, Merfolk, and Dinosaurs oh my!

Michael Shapiro
September 24, 2017
Modern Musings
Hey everyone, and welcome to another Modern Musings! I hope everyone had fun smashing their opponents with dinosaurs and looting treasure with pirates over the prerelease this past weekend.  This week we are go... Read More...

Modern Musings: Final Ixalan Spoilers and My Top 5

Michael Shapiro
September 17, 2017
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Hey guys and welcome to another Modern Musings, this week we are going to go over the last batch of spoilers that I think is relevent for modern, then rank what I think are the best cards for modern from Ixalan... Read More...

Modern Musings: Ixalan Spoilers Round 2

Michael Shapiro
September 11, 2017
Modern Musings
Hey everyone and welcome to another Modern Musings, we have a ton to cover this week, so lets get right to it. More Spoilers! It seems like this round of spoilers was even more insane than the last, espec... Read More...

Modern Musings: Ixalan Spoilers & New Planeswalker Rule

Michael Shapiro
September 3, 2017
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Hey everyone, It's spoiler season again, and that means it's time to dig into some juicy spoilers.  Today I'm going to be reviewing some of the cards could see play in modern spoiled so far and talk about how I... Read More...
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