By David Chapman

Ever since Man first crawled out of the primordial ooze, he has had the urge to raise his fists to the sky and scream"I could have done that better!" With his evidently... Read more

By Pascal Schumacher

I love lands. Like in I really, really love lands. It always annoyed me that casual players don’t give lands the respect they deserve. The usual casual player plays... Read more

By Oscar Tan

Decree of Annihilation's cycle effect is incredibly powerful, but that makes you ask which deck it fits in. Obviously, it's not... Read more

By Jim Grimmett

As you can see only half of the top eight went 5-0 or better in Standard, something you might expect in a tournament based on two formats. Depressingly for those of us who like to see a little innovation, R/G Beats is by far the... Read more

By Aaron "Darth" Hauptmann

They talked me into expanding my horizons by playing a control deck that weekend. It was testing well, so I completely dropped the Nether-Go... Read more

By Sheldon Menery

You really wanna see what the UNEDITED Ask The Judge questions are like? You wanna see all of them? Even the ones that have, y'know, ALREADY BEEN ANSWERED IN OUR FRICKIN' DATABASE, so that people are, essentially, wasting... Read more

By Glenson Lim

Much has been said about the best enchantments, the best creatures, and the best spells - sometimes even the best color. But the worst cards aren't even talked about. I decided to do something different for a change -I would find the real answers to the problem:"What are the worst... Read more

By Stijn van Dongen

My highlander deck has been highly entertaining. Do you know how I once saved all my creatures from a Savage Twister with X=6 with Glory? "How's that special?"... Read more

By Geordie Tait

The outlook wasn't brilliant for the triple J's that night,
Their draft sets were exhausted, with no chance of help in sight.
And so when many sharks sat down, surrounding each good man,
A pall-like wave of pessimism was felt...


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By Sheldon Menery

Someone told me that there is a way to kill an Exalted Angel with Smother while it is coming back to the game from its"removed from the game state" via cycling and Astral Slide. Is it targetable with Smother? Is there a way to kill... Read more

By Donald X.

If you're looking to see whether Faces of the Past can replace Intruder Alarm in your infinite mana deck, look here! If you looked at Long-Term Plans and thought,"Gee,... Read more

By Sheldon Menery

My friend thinks that Oubliette will work on Akroma, Angel of Wrath, but I think that the card targets her, which would be illegal. I have checked all rulings on this card. I think the older text on the card is confusing him. Read more

By Matt Weber

The combo may seem too simple to have revolutionized Magic - but at the time, nobody had seen anything like it. It was the creation of an engine that took up all the... Read more

By Lampros Roussos

I've been playing Slide even before Pro Tour: Venice, starting almost when I realized the interaction between Astral Slide and Cartographer. The deck I started building... Read more

By Sheldon Menery

Sheldon makes a critical correction to his Firecat Blitz/Caller of the Claw ruling... And answers a few questions about Lion's Eye Diamond! Read more

By Nick Eisel

The concept is very fundamental and doesn't come into effect until you are drafting a full block - good cases in point being the past two blocks, Odyssey and Onslaught. The idea is that pack two is extremely favorable to one color... Read more

By Christopher Carbone

Mr. Hardie apparently asked Mr. Bonnell if he would concede the match before any cards were played, decks shuffled, or dice rolled. The reason, we were told, was because Hardie could mathematically make the Top 8 while Mr. Bonnell could not. Mr. Bonnell stated that he'd rather play... Read more

By Stephen Menendian and Matthieu Durand

No format sanctioned by the DCI is as fast, brutal, and ruthless as Competitive Type One Magic. You think winning the die roll is important in Type Two? You could be dead... Read more

By Alex Franceski

You can kill your opponent in two turns by drawing first and drawing these nine cards in this order: Lightning Bolt, Mountain, Scent Of Cinder, Pyrokinesis, Fireblast, Shock, Mountain, Incinerate, Pyrokinesis Read more

By Michael Pipia, Age 13

My first deck is a new and improved AstroGlide deck that's a bit more agrressive. This deck is obviously for when the Odyssey block goes out. I'll explain the cards that I put in. Read more