By Jim Grimmett

In order to keep the abusive"Chrome Mox, Scepter, imprint Boomerang" lock in the deck, we're going to have to play Blue. I'm fairly sure that Blue won't be good... Read more

By Ben Eppler

I was reading an article last week and I stumbled across an interesting comment to the effect of,"Why anyone would want to run White Weenie when they could run Goblins is beyond me." I pondered the truth of this statement. Well, let's see, I thought. The first things that came to... Read more

By Craig Stevenson

Yo, I'm Craig, and I'm a card-playing wizard,
Beating you up with my mono-white blizzard,
Throwing superior skill in your face,
Winning the gold in the Human...


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By Laura Mills

In my last article, I built three sample Sealed decks - and I promised that I would playtest and offer any insights gleaned. I received two rebuilds of the third deck I presented... And so I went back and played ten games each... Read more

By Abe Sargent

Welcome to my fiftieth article for StarCityGames! I have been a Featured Writer for this site for a little over a year now, and I thought that I'd do something special for this article. I was reading through Mark Rosewater's... Read more

By Kyle Eck

B/W Control has become the new pet deck of Internet sites across the globe. Problem is, most of the builds I see are quite similar in card and deck structure. The... Read more

By Sheldon Menery

When I cast Soul Foundry, and imprint upon it a creature that has Affinity (take Myr Enforcer), is the X in the activated ability also effected by affinity, or does Soul Foundry not take the reduced casting cost into consideration? Read more

By Chris Piekarski

Of the green archetypes, green/blue is definitely my favorite. The idea here is to have a very solid ground defense with pro-artifact guys and regenerators, while also... Read more

By Dave Meddish

Chris, local player and recent addition to my playtesting group the High Plains Drifters, says that affinity is the new madness - and he's pretty much right on the ball. If you've played around with affinity-based decks, they're... Read more

By Sheldon Menery

I have a Shared Fate and a Future Sight in play. Does the Future Sight still act on my library, thus giving me access to both libraries at once? Or does it affect my opponent's library, as if we had exchanged libraries? Read more

By Sheldon Menery

Would Spellweaver Helix allow me to play sorceries on my opponent's turn if I remove two sorceries from his graveyard from the game? To give you a real-life scenario, I remove Stone Rain and Hammer of Bogardan from my opponent's... Read more

By Pearce Donnelly

Onslaught Block season has wound down, and a new set has come out full of goodies to exploit in the new Type 2. Yes, my friends - States is coming. Most decks won't survive the transition into the Post-Mirrodin Standard scene. Yet some decks will still be around, MBC will still... Read more

By Arthur Tindemans

Wanna know why every card is in MUD? Wanna know what cards were tested and discarded for being ineffective? One of the co-creators of MUD shares all in the second part... Read more

By James K. Searles II

In November, the Type 2 metagame will undertake one of its most radical shifts since the inception of the format. As with most Block rotations, people will begin to look at Block Constructed decks as inspiration for the next season of Standard play. While other archetypes will... Read more

By Sheldon Menery

I know Soul Foundry copies all abilities, but how would you play morph? If I have a Sapphire Medallion out and then play the Scepter, can I imprint a three-mana card like Forbid? If I imprint an Exalted Angel on a Soul Foundry,... Read more

By Aron Groot

Because affinity is a mechanic that reduces casting cost, we need to build an aggressive deck in order to use the tempo advantage it provides. (This may seem redundant, but I have seen a lot of people in forums making an effort to build affinity-based control decks.) However, an... Read more

By Evans Clinchy

I was prepared to be spending most of my October looking for a deck for States, assuming that I'd be starting over from scratch. After all, it had been a good eight... Read more

By Daniel Crane

It's that time again! A new expansion, a new set of flavor texts... And a new look at how the flavor texts on the new Mirrodin cards relate to the official backstory! Listen carefully as Daniel tells you what these strange and... Read more

By Stephen Menendian

Nick Eisel says:"Even if you don't play Vintage, reading Stephen's articles will arouse your brain and get you involved instead of the... Read more

By Michael Jay LaRue

I opened my fair share of good cards from the set and was able to build a nice W/R artifact deck - but you have probably already guessed that it was the Leonin... Read more