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The Top 8 Ways a Relationship Can End – Told Through Magic Cards
Have your attempts to End Hostilities with your significant other failed? Perhaps your SO is a Cheatyface, or, more likely, a Cheaty-with-other-body-parts. If we want to be realistic, it’s probably...
The Cat is Out of the Bag
We are days away from the follow up Banned and Restricted announcement. With the release of Aether Revolt and the most recent bannings, Wizards of the Coast announced a new...
Beyond the Norm: How to Win the Great Designer Search Part 1- Essay Questions
Hey, everyone! It’s me, Charlie! You might remember me from my truly inspired writing over the summer, where I dispensed wisdom that undoubtedly helped many of you ascend to near-prohood....
Winners of the Banned & Restricted Announcement
by Connor Bryant Yesterday, WotC ( Wizards of the Coast) announced bans in the two most popular formats, Standard and Modern. The bans are as follows. Standard bans Emrakul, the...
Up the Beanstalk: New Modern Allstar
In Modern, it is not often standard cards provide a significant impact. There are typically a few cards each year, Boseiju, Who Endures, Leyline Binding, Ledger Shredder, and Sheoldred...
Snowball Fights: The Fall of Standard
- Snowball cards – cards that are good base rate but generate card advantage - Manabase – trilands, temples, and painlands/fetches - Good Two-drops scaled instead of just being good...
Top 8 Randomly Generated Under-the-Radar Modern Cards
I was planning on writing about the Top 8 cards for the beginning of Spring this week, until I heard we were likely getting hit with a fourth nor’easter later...
A Walk Through Standard’s B&R Announcements – Part 1: The Recent Past
(Disclaimer: I love Magic, have a lot of respect for Wizards R&D, and understand that building formats is a very tough job. The following contains some… er… playful jabs at...
Top 8 MTG Cards to Prepare You for the Super Bowl
(Special thanks to Key & Peele’s East/West Bowl, from where I obtained many of my football players’ names.) Rise of Eagles It’s been 13 years since the Eagles have...
A Guide to Modern Blue White Control
Blue White Control Ryan Normandin Solitude Teferi, Time Raveler Teferi, Hero of Dominaria Supreme Verdict Prismatic Ending Memory Deluge Dovin's Veto Counterspell Archmage's Charm Raugrin Triome Polluted Delta Plains Mystic...
Standard PPTQ 12/11
Mardu VehiclesBryan Gottlieb1st Place Thraben Inspector Inventor's ApprenticeThalia, Heretic CatharToolcraft ExemplarVeteran MotoristScrapheap Scrounger Aether HubInspiring Vantage Concealed CourtyardMountain PlainsSpirebluff Canal Harnessed Lightning Cultivator's Caravan Smuggler's Copter Unlicensed Disintegration Gideon, Ally...
Jund Delirium in Pioneer
Jund has long been a staple midrange deck in Modern, and during the days of Eldritch Moon Standard, Delirium was a powerful deck with the unique option of a one-mana...