Archive: Monthly: May 2005

  • SoKs in Seattle: Dropping the Bombs (May 31st, 2005)

    Saviors of Kamigawa limited may be long gone, but that isn't a good reason not to read this article.

  • Saviors Set Review: Sinking Into Takenuma (May 30th, 2005)

    Saviors Set Review: Sinking Into Takenuma By Tom Fowler Fresh from the worldwide Prerelease events are the 165 cards in Saviors of Kamigawa.

  • Cranial Insertion: Rock Your SoKs (May 29th, 2005)

    Cranial Insertion Rock Your SoKs or, Chimps Have Big Hands By Eli Shiffrin, Thijs van Ommen, and Jeff Vondruska Welcome back to Cranial Insertion! Where we left off, Thijs has discussed priority, Moko was zooming around the Atlantic in an Atlantean hover

  • What 9th Should look like (May 26th, 2005)

    Introduction With the release of 9th Edition on the horizon, the discussions of what it will look like and what cards could be in it grows more interesting each day.

  • Key Matchups. Mono Green Control versus Blue Green (May 25th, 2005)

    Green is undeniably the strongest color in Standard.

  • Caveat Ch34tz0r: How to Avoid Getting Cheated [Article of the Month: May] (May 24th, 2005)

    By Tom Fowler If you’ve played competitive Magic, you’ve probably been cheated at some point.

  • U/W: The Forgotten Archetype (May 23rd, 2005)

    The results coming in from overseas Regionals seem to support how everyone thought the post-Affinity metagame would shape up: a solid three-deck first tier, with numerous second-tier decks succeeding in the correct metagames.

  • Cranial Insertion: All About Priority (May 22nd, 2005)

    Cranial Insertion All About Priority By Eli Shiffrin, Thijs van Ommen, and Jeff Vondruska About a month ago, you could read about continuous effects on Cranial Insertion.

  • Serious Casual. Seriously. (May 19th, 2005)

    Gifts Ungiven Bringer of the Black Dawn Tooth and Nail Disciple of the Vault Three of these things are a lot like the others, Three of these things are kind of the same, Can you guess which one is not like the others? Because it's time we play our game I

  • The Xen Perspective: My Chinese Tastes Like Cottage Cheese... (May 18th, 2005)

    Everytime you buy a Core Set product, God kills a kitten.

  • Frankie Peanuts and Coercive Logic (May 17th, 2005)

    Frankie Peanuts is by far the best card ever printed.

  • Type DanGray: The Best Format You've Never Heard Of (May 16th, 2005)

    Highlander? Yawn.

  • Cranial Insertion: Casual Mayhem Week (May 15th, 2005)

    Cranial Insertion Casual Mayhem Week or, The Lost Lotus of Atlantis By Eli Shiffrin, Thijs van Ommen, and Jeff Vondruska Eli: Welcome to a very special Cranial Insertion! For casual week, we decided to do something a little different – Thijs, Jeff, Mok

  • 1.X Post-Rotation (May 12th, 2005)

    An outdated but very complete synopsis of post-rotation Extended environment with decklists.

  • Magic Theory From The Ground Up: Part III (May 11th, 2005)

    Magic theory built from scratch.

  • Key Matchups: The UG mirror. (May 10th, 2005)

    by HKKID It’s said that if you break a mirror, that’s seven years of bad luck.

  • Revitalize Magic Content: Create a Podcast! (May 9th, 2005)

    by Ron Vitale I’ve been playing Magic for over 11 years now and I’ve read “The Duelist,” “Scrye,” “Inquest,” StarCity Games articles, and Magicthegathering.

  • Cranial Insertion: Don't Eat the Cake (May 8th, 2005)

    Cranial Insertion Don't Eat the Cake By Eli Shiffrin, Thijs van Ommen, and Jeff Vondruska Greetings, and welcome to yet another installment of Cranial Insertion! Allow myself to introduce… myself.

  • Going Rogue: 5 Color Control... in Standard? (May 5th, 2005)

    Remember that great five color deck you built when you first started playing Magic? You know, the one with Lightning Bolt and Force of Nature and Demonic Tutor and Serra Angel and Counterspell? Remember how badly it lost to that kid at the card store with

  • The Ethics of Casual (May 4th, 2005)

    "Tranquil Thicket, go.

  • Back to Basics: Tips and Tricks of Magic (May 3rd, 2005)

    So you know the basics.

  • Bring the Pain: MBC in T2 (May 2nd, 2005)

    BRING THE PAIN: MBC IN TYPE 2 By Tom Fowler Pop Quiz: What deck could clear the board with a unique Wrath of God effect, make you discard your hand, remove over half your library from the game, and then kill you with one hit from an arbitrarily large mon

  • Cranial Insertion: The Tale of the Lemur(e) (May 1st, 2005)

    Cranial Insertion The Tale of the Lemur(e) By Eli Shiffrin, Thijs van Ommen, and Jeff Vondruska This Lemur goes bump in the nightHello again, and welcome back to Cranial Insertion! Moko has just appeared in the sky, flying over the North Sea, which means