Archive for Magic the Gathering
Innistrad Introduces the Latest Enemy-Color Duals
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With the pending release of the big set this year in September, the excitement on what the new set offers grow. First is the confirmation of double-faced cards, the first time ever in Magic history. The Transform mechanic makes this possible. With the ‘Underworld’ themed set, you will get to see Humans in daytime transform to Werewolves during the night, or a simple bat turn into a Vampire. Read More→
Magic’s Domination Nearing the Twenty-Year Mark
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With over six million players in dozens of countries around the globe, it is safe to assume that Magic: The Gathering is—and probably always will be—the most popular card game of its genre. No one is entirely sure why battling via a deck of cards has caught on like wildfire, but it has caught on nevertheless. Read More→
First Wave of the New Phyrexia Previews
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Just a few days back, MTG Salvation’s Rumor Mill revealed a bunch of scanned Japanese cards of the upcoming New Phyrexia set to be released this May. The previews contained new card mechanics (which I find very innovative) and featured Karn as the first colorless Planeswalker. The scanned pics after the cut. Read More→
C&C (Cheap and Competitive) Decks for Standard
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*this is a repost from MagicIloilo.com
Playing and competing in Magic has been getting tough, especially on the financial aspect. Most powerful cards nowadays, costs you a minimum of 500 pesos, and you really have to spend thousands to build a “so-called” Tier 1 deck. Most people (including myself) blame the Mythic rarity as the cause of this sudden rise in card prices, though we just have to deal with it. The problem now is for the beginners who wants to play competitive Magic but does not have the financial capacity to do so.
With that, I’ve decided to write this article to cite a few budget decks that can compete with the Standard metagame today. Read More→
Jund Domination in SCG $5K Richmond, Virginia
Posted by: | CommentsJund does it again! Yes folks, the Shards of Alara plane continues to dominate the Standard metagame with the recent top finish at Star City Games $5000 Open event in Richmond, Virginia. The pilot was Alex Bertoncini which had previous top finishes in the previous SCG events. He faced a Jund mirror matchup in the finals against Alessandro Culotti and proved he is the better Jund master. Here’s the list that he used: Read More→
Some Interesting Extended Decks in GP Oakland
Posted by: | CommentsThe Mtg 2010 Season kicked off with Grand Prix Oakland last weekend and as Day Two getting to a close, we saw pros perform on the last remaining rounds to get to the top 8. Well, the final eight has been decided as of the writing of this post. It features the best players and high level pros of Magic with the names Conley Woods, Tomoharu Saito and Adam Yurchick. The rest had big accomplishments in their playing career too. Read More→
Worldwake Spoiler Update
Posted by: | CommentsHere’s the recent update of the upcoming Worldwake, Zendikar’s 2nd set. The spoiler season has been a little slow today as we have only revealed about 46 cards out of 145 cards in the set. Here they are:
