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Taking Turns with Fires of Invention in Modern
Taking Turns decks have always held a special place in my heart, but they could never quite get there fast enough. The most reliable extra turn spell is five mana,...
5 Color Fires Planeswalkers in Pioneer
Pioneer is here! This fresh format brings with it the allure of new decks, cheaper cards, and of course new brews! I looked through some of the mtggoldfish results for...
Top 8 Constructed Cards from Throne of Eldraine
Fabled Passage In a Standard format where our precious Checklands have rotated, we’re stuck with Shocks and the enemy-colored Temples—and that’s it. Mana is worse than what we’ve been...
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...
Reflecting on the June 1st B&R Announcement and Errata: What I Wanted, and What We Got
On June 1st, 2020, Wizards banned its fourteenth and fifteenth cards in Standard across nine sets in three years: Agent of Treachery and Fires of Invention. Wizards does not take...
G.I. JOE Heroscape: Rumble at the Rift Battle Box
On Earth, G.I. JOE is the codename of a highly trained covert special missions force. Their enemy: COBRA, a terrorist organization bent on ruling the world! Thanks to the bizarre...
Standard Bannings: New and Old
Wizards' most recent Banned and Restricted announcement went up on October 10th saw bans in both Standard and Modern. Many Magic the Gathering players talk about the halcyon days...
Grixis Control in Standard for MTG Arena
Today I'd like to take a look at the deck I've recently been playing a bit on the MTG Arena ladder. It's a bit different, and is still a work...
Top 8 Modern Decks in the Metagame - February 2019
Like a Simic Crab Elf Ooze, Modern is a squishy, mutating format where the top decks are always in flux. Let’s take a look at how the top decks have...
How to Fix Magic
***Disclaimer: I love Magic, have a lot of respect for Wizards R&D, and understand that building formats is tougher than I can imagine. This article certainly contains criticism, but I...
Pioneering Pioneer: Aggro, Combo and Control
With the announcement of Pioneer, the internet this week has become a cacophony of people randomly shouting out their favorite cards from the last eight years. There are still a...
Possibly Adventuring Through Pioneer
Pioneer is in a strange spot right now. Support for the format has, for the greater portion of the pandemic, been lackluster largely due to the omnipresence of the...