By Mike Flores

The quest to inherit the title of "sickest ever" dot deck. Read more

By Ken Krouner

Throughout time two draft archetypes have risen above the rest in terms of power and consistency. Those are mono-Black and Blue/White. If you default to one of... Read more

By Ben Bleiweiss

Thousands of players each year receive game and match losses due to imporper deck registration. In today's installment of Blog Fanatic, Ben looks at what can go... Read more

By Philip Stanton

Phil Stanton's articles are almost impossible to explain in short blurbs, but they always include numbers, they are always about Vintage, and they always give you... Read more

By Pete Hoefling

With Syracuse in the books, the eyes of the Vintage community now turn to the next Star City "Power Nine" tournament in Chicago! Can Kevin Cron successfully defend his Syracuse title? Will new archetypes emerge in the wake of... Read more

By Dennis Beard

At GenCon Indy last year, I had the joy of sitting next to Peasant Magic creator Rob Baranowski as he announced he was activating his Chaos Confetti. The judges running... Read more

By Laura Mills

Sometimes, the most seemingly-trivial things can affect the strategy of your games. And when you're playing Emperor or Two-Headed Giant, there's one subtle fact which can affect deckbuilding in very interesting ways. Read more

By Steve O'Connell

I've been on the forefront of 4-color Control's design for years now. Over those years, I had slipped into the habit of tweaking the deck to survive, popularizing... Read more

By Abe Sargent

Welcome back comrades! Gather 'round, for thy daily dosage of deck hath returned! Verily, our good captain Ted of the Knutsons hath summoned me for another round... Read more

By Chris Richter

Rules Tip of the Day: When in any other zone but the stack, the value of ‘X’ in cards with an ‘X’ in the mana cost is treated as zero. When on the stack, X is equal to whatever was chosen when the spell was...

By Chad Ellis

Chad gives the quick and dirty reasons for his Invitational ballot, and some of the people in his Top 5 might just surprise you. Read more

By John Pelcak

Originally, I wanted to write something about reviewing Betrayers of Kamigawa and all the cards that are going to have an impact on the new format. I knew that my teammates Gadiel and Tim Aten were going to write something about the... Read more

By Chris Richter

Rules Tip of the Day: Using an ability that will tap a creature that has been declared as an attacking creature will not remove it from combat. In order to tap something so it does not attack you must tap it BEFORE it is declared...

By Ted Knutson

When Scott Johns sent me the list of names on the Magic Writers Invitational, I winced. Never before had I seen such a wretched hive of scum and villainy. After... Read more

By Tim Ward

Akroma, Angel of Wrath isn't on this man's "Big Hitter" list? And Terravore and Dracoplasm show up on his combo list? Well, it may sound... Read more

By Matt Hoffman

My top five creatures walk to the beat of a different drum, and are sure to raise some eyebrows — but if you give them a chance,... Read more

By JP Meyer

This past weekend Randy played in his first tournament since 1999... and won. Even better was that it was an unsanctioned 12-Proxy Vintage event with a Black Lotus as the grand prize. We sent our crack reporter JP Meyer off to a... Read more

By Chris Romeo

Imagine it. You sit down across from your opponent. You roll the die and win. You shake hands. You mulligan to six. Your opponent's... Read more

By David Downing

The most common of formats has a metagame, and David Downing brings it to you in this fine introductory article! If you've been wondering about this strange format that... Read more

By Sheldon Menery

I'm away for most of March (most notably Head Judging Pro Tour Atlanta), so Feature Fridays this month will be brought to you by Lee Sharpe, a most excellent Level...