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Modern Musings: It’s Time to Make Competitive Magic Digital

Michael Shapiro
November 5, 2018
Modern Musings
Hey everyone! This week on Modern Musings, I'm going to talk a little bit about the future of competitive Magic, its problems and their potential solutions. Magic in general is in a pretty good place right now,... Read More...

Modern Musings: Dredge is Creeping up on Modern

Michael Shapiro
October 29, 2018
Modern Musings
Hey everyone! Welcome to another Modern Musings!  This week we are going to talk about the newest addition to Dredge that has it posting results again: Creeping Chill.  If you missed this card when looking thro... Read More...

Modern Musings: Steamy New Modern

Michael Shapiro
October 22, 2018
Modern Musings
Hey everyone! Welcome to another Modern Musings!  This week Modern has been getting a little steamy with all of the Runaway Steam-Kin decks that have been running around.  The Magic streamer h0lydiva has been p... Read More...

Modern Musings: What Should You be Playing Right Now?

Michael Shapiro
October 15, 2018
Modern Musings
Hey everyone! Welcome to another Modern Musings!  This week I'm going to talk about what deck I think you should be playing right now.  Before that, though, we have to kind of preface with what the modern metag... Read More...

Modern Musings: Modern Guild Brews

Michael Shapiro
October 8, 2018
Modern Musings
Hey everyone! Welcome to another Modern Musings!  Today I'm going to talk about some Guilds of Ravnica Modern brews.  More specifically something I'm calling G/R Rabble.  I'm interested in this deck because we ... Read More...

Modern Musings: The State of Professional Magic

Michael Shapiro
October 1, 2018
Modern Musings
Hey everyone!  Welcome to another Modern Musings!  This week, in light of Gerry Thompson's decision to protest worlds, I thought that we'd talk a little about the state of professional Magic and propose some so... Read More...

Modern Musings: Guilds of Ravnica Spoiler Review Part 2

Michael Shapiro
September 24, 2018
Modern Musings
Hey everyone! Welcome to another Modern Musings!  This week we'll be finishing up our look at Guilds of Ravnica as most of the set is spoiled as of the writing of this article.  I'm going to review the cards we... Read More...

Modern Musings: Guilds of Ravnica Spoiler Review Part 1

Michael Shapiro
September 17, 2018
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Hey everyone! Welcome to another Modern Musings!  This week I'm going to look at all the juicy spoilers that we have so far and pick out the cards that I think will best fit into Modern.  As always, I'm going t... Read More...

Modern Musings: What to look out for in Guilds of Ravnica

Michael Shapiro
September 10, 2018
Modern Musings
Hey everyone!  Guilds of Ravnica spoiler season is finally upon us and I couldn't be more excited to see what this set has in store for us.  As always on Modern Musings, I'll be mostly looking for cards that ha... Read More...

Modern Musings: PPTQ Tournament Report

Michael Shapiro
September 3, 2018
Modern Musings
Hey everyone! Welcome to another Modern Musings, this week I'm going to talk about a PPTQ I played in on a whim this past weekend.  I've had a pretty hectic schedule these past couple weeks driving to LA and ba... Read More...
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