FNM Magic Report 7.24.2009 Still in Wellington, and out of work on time, so I make the 6:30 draft.   I get in a 7 man pod and we open packs. First pack is a Clone and a motley assortment of 1/1 dorks.  There’s a diabolic tutor and I take it.  In retrospect it may have [...]

So the first thing you might be wondering (or at least what I wrestled with) is why write about a draft you didn’t enjoy or win at? I believe that ultimately, if my goal is really to improve my game, I need to post-mortem all of my drafts. Ask myself what worked and what didn’t [...]

August 7th through August 9th, Superstars Game Center hosted a $5k Standard event. Friday the 7th was an early bird, main flights on Saturday and then the official day 2 on Sunday. (If you’re looking for my 3 main take-aways, those are at the very bottom of this report). I played in the Early Bird [...]

I examine 5 potential decks made possible by the release of the Magic: 2010 Core Set.

FNM tournament report for 7.16.2009 I show up at 6:30 loaded for bear – we have 18 players so we separate into 2 pods – most of the players seem pretty casual – the binder carrying dudes from last week apparently are boycotting the store and they’re actually outside the store at a table in [...]

Wellington is located on the Northern Island of New Zealand and is the country’s capital.  It’s nestled in a bay and actually reminds me of a very young San Francisco – a cute but manageable little metro area with hills like Los Gatos and little period houses all scattered through them.  I’m assigned to work [...]

With the Magic 2010 Prereleases just around the corner, we’re going to have a much more interesting time playing limited with this core set than any other. So, in order to give you a better shot at winning your tournamnt, I’m going to discuss which common cards you should look out for, in both draft and sealed events.

The cards in the upcoming release of the Magic core set, Magic 2010 or “M10″ have now been completely spoiled by our pals at mtgsalvation.  M10 is a set which has already proven contentious, generating debate and controversy with the announcement of its accompanying rules changes a few weeks back.  Here are my first impressions [...]

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.

At the stroke of midnight tonight a number of bannings will become effective in the elder dragon highlander format (here’s a sick link to the rules homepage for any unfortunate souls who have not heard of this fantastic format).  This time around, the chariot turning into a pumpkin is braids, cabal minion, who is now banned for use as [...]

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 [...]