A Pre-Event Checklist

February 7th, 2010 by zak
zak

I discuss some ideas as to how one can best prepare and pack for a tournament

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More Tales From the Worldwake Prerelease

February 5th, 2010 by zak
zak

I hope that everyone had a great prerelease weekend and enjoyed playing with the new Worldwake cards; I know I did. Unfortunately things like school and work have prevented me from posting this earlier, but I have, as promised, a second Worldwake prerelease report for you guys. I was thankful that I had [...]

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San Juan PTQ Top 8 Report – Tribal Zoo

February 5th, 2010 by Mike
Mike

When I found out that I was going to be able to write about cards for a real website on commission after ten years of playing cards, I swore I wasn’t going to allow myself to be one of those writers who drums up his personal life with exuberant stories of booze, broads and ballyhoo. [...]

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Deckbuilding at the Worldwake Pre Release

February 2nd, 2010 by Mike
Mike

Everyone is writing about Worldwake right now and we probably have at least another week or two of reading about the impact of the set in Standard, Extended, Sealed, Draft, Legacy, EDH, Type 4, Mental Magic… the list goes on.
This article is more focused on deckbuilding in the new sealed format. Any type of Magic [...]

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Tales From the Worldwake Prerelease

January 30th, 2010 by zak
zak

I discuss my success at the first of 2 worldwake prereleases, held at Wizard’s Comics and Collectibles in Sherwood Park.

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Worldwake Set Review – Multicolored, Colorless, Lands

January 30th, 2010 by joe
joe

Welcome, dear reader, to the final installment of our Worldwake Set Review. We broke the set up into batches. Here’s links to the white, blue, black, red, and green reviews. As usual, I will add my comments, evaluating each card with an eye toward primarily limited play, but with the occasional anecdote [...]

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Zendikar and Worldwake: A Combined Limited Format

January 29th, 2010 by zak
zak

With the prerelease for Worldwake fast approaching, I identify certain cards that have enormous potential, but which might not be recognized immediately as being relevant.

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Worldwake Set Review – Green

January 28th, 2010 by joe
joe

Welcome to the Green section of our Worldwake Set Review series. We began with white here, for those just tuning in who’d like to see all the reviews. As usual, I will add my comments, evaluating each card with an eye toward primarily limited play, but with the occasional anecdote on Eternal formats [...]

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Worldwake Set Review – Red

January 28th, 2010 by joe
joe

Time to look at some red cards. If you’re just tuning in, we’ve broken the new Worldwake cards into colors and given you our initial reactions to them. I will evaluate each card with an eye toward limited play with an occasional word about EDH or eternal formats. My colleague James will [...]

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Worldwake Set Review – Black

January 27th, 2010 by joe
joe

Welcome to the black section of our Worldwake set review series. The series started here with white, for those just joining us. I will initially evaluate each card for Limited and eternal formats / EDH. James will then add his comments for the realm of standard, block, and occasionally extended. Let’s [...]

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Worldwake’s affect on Standard decks

January 27th, 2010 by Dillon
Dillon

Dillon looks at the promising Worldwake cards and discusses where they will be sitting in the current Standard decks, as well as if they will create their own decks completely.

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Undiscovered Treasure: A Complete Worldwake Review

January 27th, 2010 by Xavier
Xavier

So what happened is that I wrote up my review yesterday for my local playgroup and thought, “Hey, James might like this”  But my style is a little different and I’m not as deep into the analysis as his excellent white review is.   We talked and instead of integrating my thoughts into his review, I’d [...]

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