I discuss my adventures playing Bant Dredgevine in the standard constructed portion of a local championship tournament.

My adventures in an M11 4-3-2-2 queue on Magic Online.

I discuss and analyze my performance at the Magic 2011 Launch Party.

I discuss my sealed deck and rounds at the second Magic 2011 prerelease, with an analysis of my top role-playing cards and match by match description.

I discuss my experiences at the Magic 2011 prerelease, including my sealed pool and deck, as well as my top performers that day.

After I finished 2nd at the TCGPlayer.com 5k at the beginning of May, I must’ve thought I was “the man” to break a promise I made to myself that this standard season I would figure out one deck I wanted to play and stick with it. I ran UW Control at the PTQ the next [...]

After my top 2 finish at the Boston 5k a few weeks ago, I was looking good going into the GP with at least one bye and if I played well in any of the PTQs on the following two weekends I could be looking at 2 byes. That didn’t happen. The day after the [...]

Last week I discussed my preparation for the big TCGPlayer.com 5k / PTQ weekend in Boston, MA. All week I was pretty certain that I would be sleeving up UW tapout for Saturday but was contemplating some Mythic for Sunday. I also talked about my helping friend and former pro tour-er Blaine Hatab get Kiln [...]

Here we go again. It’s another season here on the PTQC and the grinding begins this weekend at the TCGPlayer 5k in Boston followed by a Sunday Funday PTQ. Right now, public enemy #1 is UW Tapout; a deck that you can barely damage in the early game and is nigh untouchable in the mid-late [...]

After two, first place victories at his local Prerelease, Dillon takes an educated look at the cards that are the best Rise of Eldrazi commons and uncommons in each color and evaluates them for draft.

Tilt n (tlt): a state of mental confusion or frustration in which a player adopts a less than optimal strategy, usually resulting in the player becoming over-aggressive. I hate it when poker terms bleed out into real life situations. I cringe anytime someone (including myself) says that they were “all-in” on something that isn’t a [...]

I discuss my the results of last week’s PTQ, where I played merfolk to a 10th place finish.