By Ben Bleiweiss

In today’s edition of The Real Deal, Ben examines the choices R&D made in choosing the Planeshifted cards in Planar Chaos. Within their own internal logic did these choices make sense? Ben weighs in with his opinion. Read more

By Jay Moldenhauer-Salazar

In an additional article for the weekend, JMS takes us through the development of his own pet Mono-Black creation, Black Knights. Utilizing the powerful Haakon,... Read more

By Rich Hoaen

Rich continues his excellent series of Time Spiral Draft walkthroughs, presenting each pick as it happened and highlighting each card chosen. He shares his final decklist, and gives us a brief overview of his results and processes.... Read more

By Sean McKeown

With the change to a weekly column with a few floating columns, it seems the five-part set review on StarCityGames.com has finally gone the way of “My Fires.” Instead of one series in five parts, naming each and every... Read more

By Mike Flores

The Extended metagame rumbles on, and many of us are looking for that elusive edge for our next PTQ tournament. As usual, Mike Flores... Read more

By Craig Jones

Craig "The Professor" Jones takes time out from his twisted experiments to bring us the low-down on Planar Chaos Limited. Not content with a mere one or two... Read more

By Johanna Virtanen

Making Accommodations

What obligations does a head judge have to accommodate players who aren't able to fulfill all the normal obligations of a tournament competitor? Johanna describes her experiences with a local player.

By The Ferrett

The Ferrett attended the prerelease, and opened a card pool that was freakishly abnormal. In fact, it was so utterly lopsided that he could have gone... Read more

By Bennie Smith

Last week I Dredged through Planar Chaos; this week, I unleash the dog decks of Dredge that have been pinging around my brain these last few weeks. A quick caveat... Read more

By Jeff Till

This week in Magic Puzzles, we examine the Timeshifted cards of Planar Chaos. Are they better than the originals, or just bad imitations? Find out below... Read more

By Raphael Levy

New cards excite all Magic players, from the Level 6 Mage to the Kitchen Table Acolyte, and Raphael Levy is no exception. Today's Pro Persepctive sees Raph share... Read more

By Rivien Swanson

Planar Chaos looms upon the horizon, soon to be legal and leading the masses into Damnation. Alright, I could have resisted, but it was so much more fun not to. As... Read more

By Zac Hill

I know. I said I wouldn’t be writing this week. But hide those party hats in a hurry, boys, because that’s my (very ugly and outdated and The... Read more

By Talen Lee

When I started playing Magic, Set Reviews were a dime a dozen. Writers, sensing easy material, would happily copy their word-count's worth of extant material into... Read more

By Ben Bleiweiss

After going 25-0 with a budget build of the Cloudpost/Vesuva deck, Ben began working on the deck for competitive play. After a month of testing and hundreds of... Read more

By Rich Hoaen

Rich continues his excellent series of Time Spiral Draft walkthroughs, presenting each pick as it happened and highlighting each card chosen. He shares his final decklist, and gives us a brief overview of his results and processes.... Read more

By Chris Richter

Rules Tip of the Day: Abilities that trigger at the beginning of a step or phase can only trigger if the permanent with the ability is in play at the very beginning of that step or phase.

Q: When I use Mindslaver in a Two-Headed...

By Tiago Chan

Improvement is a tricky thing to quantify. Sure, success is something we can all work towards, and this translates itself into tournament wins and strong performances... but how exactly do we measure our own development? This... Read more

By John Fiorillo

John takes us through some of the tips and tricks picked up at the Planar Chaos prerelease tournaments. Some of the cards he discusses today are thus-far unloved... while some of them are hyped beyond measure. Where does the truth... Read more

By Abe Sargent

Bonjour mes amis! Welcome back to another installment of that series that explores all things casual. Today I am going to be looking at the new Planar Chaos... Read more