Worlds in Rome kicked off with a shocker when National champion Charles Gindy was disqualified from the tournament without prize for fraud.
Usually we don’t really hear about what’s going on with disqualifications, but we had a rare statement from He
Unfortunately as I was going to Rome, I didn't have anything special or interesting for Standard. On the other hand, I did feel pretty confident in the card choices we made for our Jund deck. Pretty much all of your writers here at channelfireball who pla
Many people were hoping Worlds would bring some tech to get rid of the Jund infested metagame. There are definitely some gems here that deserve to be tested and further exploration...
Some quick tidbits from my recent trip to Wizards of the Coast headquarters, aka my "in regards to" article. I abandoned all hope of a coherent theme this week to just get to the good stuff! Details, details, details!
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Friday, November 20th - Hall of Famer Olivier Ruel takes us through an 8-4 draft queue on Magic Online. He shares some comprehensive thoughts about both the picks and the games, and talk
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Friday, November 20th - Olivier Ruel rocked to Grand Prix: Minneapolis and posted a fine 8-1 result on Day 1. Today, he shares his Sealed cardpool and deck choices, discussing the streng
Friday, November 20th - Even though my days of college have long since passed, my desire to live the college lifestyle has not. I’ve made sure that such mainstays as not doing anything particularly useful with my time, living in complete squalor, and
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Friday, November 20th - Brian Kibler brings us tales from the build-up to the World Championships in Rome, and shares his thought processes behind his Standard deck selection. With a hea
Friday, November 20th - Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. This week I've got a short rundown of my first day here in Italy, along with some incredibly fun and awesome Standard technology I'd like to share. You ready for s
Friday, November 20th - I realize, in the grand scheme of things, that there are a lot worse things that can happen to you than a run of extraordinary bad luck playing Magic. Ultimately, this is just a game. That said, this is a column about Magic, and
Worlds is definitely the most exciting Pro Tour of the year. The greatest players from around the globe face off in multiple formats, battling until the best player in the world is crowned champion.
Seeing how your hometown heroes and favorite pros fare
Let us begin with a point of reference. Here is the WotC definition of red mages: "Red mages have no patience for talk or subtlety. They act quickly and recklessly.... At their best, red mages are dynamic, passionate, and unbound. At their worst, they a
So many people are dramatically under prepared for Zendikar sealed. Half of the people I had asked couldn't even count their Zendikar sealed experience on two hands. How can you expect to win?
Once you reach the stage in your career as a player where you're trying to take your abilities to the next level, bad beats can really get under your skin and disrupt your game, but you need to play through...
Thursday, November 19th - I’ve been cruising the Mediterranean on my way to Worlds in Rome. Somewhere around Athens, I realized that it would only be fitting that I talked about philosophy while in the Greek isles, the birthplace of much of modern tho
Thursday, November 19th - Zendikar is an extremely fast draft format. While initially popular, a lot of players have began to bemoan its speed, saying games are over too quick and, as a result, there is a smaller chance for skill to impact each game. Whi
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Thursday, November 19th - Paulo played Grand Prix: Minneapolis needing five Pro Points to attain Level 8 status in the Pro Player’s Club next year. With a 8-1 performance on Day 1, he
This is a StarCityGames.com Premium Article. Click here to sign up.Thursday, November 19th - Last weekend, Adrian Sullivan made Day 2 at Grand Prix: Minneapolis with an admittedly weak cardpool. In doing so, he learned a valuable lesson on the art of pac
Thursday, November 19th - Most things Judges handle are rather routine. At every event I attend, there is always a common pattern of rules questions and penalties that occur. But, every once in awhile, we'll get something that is worth of discussion at p
Thursday, November 19th - Grand Prix: Minneapolis was last weekend. It was the third largest North American GP ever, and it ran very smoothly. I’m not going to talk a lot about the play itself – the coverage can do that. I’ll talk about everythi
One of the more disappointing aspects of deck design is being forced to give up on a concept. We can want something to work so much that we force the issue, either screwing up our playtest results or simply ignoring them and disappointing ourselves even m
We all go on tilt, we all have bad beats, and we all have runs where the end never seems to be in sight. But the game is so much larger than our wins and losses, and you miss out if you ignore all the other lessons...
Wednesday, November 18th - This past weekend, I played in my second Pro Tour Qualifier for San Diego. I played more Limited this time than I did for the last PTQ, but still failed to walk away with the Blue Envelope. While I’m pretty sure my rating we
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Wednesday, November 18th - With Worlds just around the corner, Sam Black examines Green/White Baneslayer in Standard. He focuses on a selection of maindeck questions and sideboard option
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Wednesday, November 18th - Hall of Famer Olivier Ruel takes us through an 8-4 draft queue on Magic Online. He shares some comprehensive thoughts about both the picks and the games, and t
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Wednesday, November 18th - Standard is proving to be an open format, and creative deckbuilders can gain a significant edge on their opponents with some wise rogue choices. Today, Nick Ei
Wednesday, November 18th - In a review of Portal cards in article #168, I spend some time talking about the Three Kingdoms set, and some of the stories behind the cards. Later, in article #190, I spend the entire time describing stories behind the cards
Wednesday, November 18th - Think back, if you will, to Standard a year ago. Shards of Alara had just come out, and the format was still largely dominated by Lorwyn Block. Faeries was the undisputed champion if the format, and even more so before Time Spi
It’s weird writing a tournament report as you’re still in the tournament, but here I am, sitting at a computer, waiting for my next round to start. Why not write?
It’s also weird doing laundry while in a PTQ.
The pool I opened for the November 15
No article this week, guys, I have NorCal Regionals for Street Fighter 4 this weekend. I gotta practice in anticipation of SoCal and Justin Wong (A.K.A:: best player in the U.S.) showing up. Later!
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GP Minneapolis was this past weekend, congratulations to Zohar Bhagat for being champion of the third largest tournament EVER in North America. Tom and Steve playing a bunch of EDH and Jack getting some crazy local FNM's...
Standard right now is all about attacking and blocking. As Nissa's Chosens, Putrid Leeches and Plated Geopedes battle it out in the red zone, players are filling their decks for the ensuing creature slugfest.
In this part 1 of 3 series, I'll show you what I know from Exodus in terms of drafting by listing cards you should look for. I'll also give a quick overview of the set, and some back history some people might not realize.
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Last week I spent all my time playing ZEN Block and gathered a lot of information about the format. Is it really a Vampires-only format? Are there other possibilities? Could my non-vampire decks do any good in the format? Inside you will find all the answ
Tuesday, November 17th - In this week's article, Doug considers two applications of Entomb in Legacy, the traditional Reanimator style and innovative Protean Hulk lists. How can Entomb power up a Reanimator list beyond getting a fatty to bring back? Get
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Tuesday, November 17th - Aggressive strategies abound in the current Standard format, on the broad back of Jund. With no Reflecting Pools around, it seems that multicolored Control is no
Tuesday, November 17th - As the hours tick down to the ultimate gaming challenge, Rich takes us through the Player of the Year Race, and exclusively reveals that a certain entertaining American will be lifting the individual title come Sunday. Or he coul
Tuesday, November 17th - On 11/7, Alternate Universe - Blue Bell ran their first Legacy tournament; to my knowledge, this was the first non-weekly Legacy tournament in the area since the Grand Prix Trial for Columbus in 2007. I’d been pushing the stor
Duels of the Planeswalkers is one of the most popular titles on XBox Live. EoV's own Brian Ross has been slaying Magic's Dragons for fifteen years now and is ready to offer you advice on Duels brand new expansion - Duel the Dragon. Read on for full deck a
Sitting on my couch with my fiance (sorry ladies) reluctantly watching Real Housewives I decided to grab my laptop and play a few casual Magic Online duels until Top Chef came on. To my surprise, my fiance actually wanted to watch me play. I started
The third set in the Zendikar block will be called "Rise of the Eldrazi". It will release in April 2010 and will contain 249 cards, making it a "large set" rather than a smaller expansion.
From Wizards.com: "In the end it was Zohar Bhagat who piloted his way through a sea of players to take home the title. Congratulations to Grand Prix – Minneapolis champion Zohar Bhagat!"
The TCGplayer 5k in Philadelphia will certainly be one of the larger open events of the season, and provides players with the perfect opportunity to test their constructed ideas against some heavier competition.
This is the first control offering in my testing that can consistently dispatch the format's triumvirate of aggressive menaces, while retaining enough versatile answers and brute-force card draw.
Monday, November 16th - Last weekend, my wife won the StarCityGames.com $5000 Standard Open. I didn't do so bad myself, and feel I owe you guys an explanation about why I chose the deck we played, and why I didn't play Jund or Team America. Here is the s
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Monday, November 16th - Hall of Famer Olivier Ruel takes us through an 8-4 draft queue on Magic Online. He shares some comprehensive thoughts about both the picks and the games, and talk
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