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 [...]

Wizards has announced the decklist of ‘Teeth of the Predator,’ one of their new “Duels of the Planeswalkers” series of pre-constructed, 60-card decks. These decks are a spinoff of their xBox 360 title, Duels of the Planeswalkers. However, in a dumbfounding and likely ill-fated move, none of the decks will actually contain the planeswalkers they [...]

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 [...]

Attending my first Pro Tour last weekend was a hip-check to my Super Ego. I’ve been to dozens of card conventions and large tournaments, but this is the first time I attended when I wasn’t even invited to the big dance. There was never a VS System Pro Circuit Championship that I wasn’t qualified for. [...]

Just this past week, we notified Power 9 Pro customers that we’re launching another series of MtG workshops led by Luis Scott-Vargas. We definitely wanted to keep our blog readers up to date too! I’m especially excited to have Luis Scott-Vargas on as an instructor/coach with Power 9 Pro. It’s taken a lot of juggling [...]

Wizard’s has announced the GP lineup for 2010 and I have to say it looks great. Lots of variability–something I felt was missing from this year’s schedule which featured a ton of limited. Here’s the schedule: Dates City Country Format Feeds PT Feb. 13-14 Oakland USA Extended San Juan Feb. 27-28 Madrid Spain Legacy San [...]

First off, I am making a bold statement here and by the end of this article it should be clear why that is. As always, would love to hear from each of you in the comments section. For clarity sake, I am lumping MTGO into Magic the Gathering generally. In order to understand the framing [...]

Dillon examines Magic 2010′s interesting reprints, new duals, and refined rules. He explains why he is excited for Grand Prix Boston and why he is behind all of Wizard’s changes.

For this post, I thought I thought it would be interesting if I pooled a number of different perspectives from the Power 9 Pro team. In that sense, we have a virtual round table discussion of the recent rules changes. I’ll start the discussion. James: So, team, we have a new set of rules rolling [...]

there’s not too much news out this week for magic the gathering…so i thought i would do a review ofMagic: the Gathering – Battlegrounds. from the title of the post, you can tell that i’m not down with this shameless attempt at milking more money from the magic the gathering player base. so why do [...]