By Adrian Sullivan

Adrian looks at the success of Scepter-Chant at the recent Extended Pro Tour, tells you what he thinks Nick West and Ruud Warmenhoven got right, and then gives his... Read more

By Kevin Binswanger

Here's the plan. Let's jump right into the middle of things, giving the appropriate props out to http://mtgthesource.com/, and look at the archetypes of Type 1.5. This article is designed to give players new to the Type 1.5 format... Read more

By Stephen Menendian

There were good arguments for unrestricting Doomsday. Doomsday combo would seem to be no faster than Worldgorger Dragon, which everyone agrees is "fair combo." I... Read more

By Ted Knutson

My question pertains to something that Mike Flores wrote in his article concluding the U/W deck challenge. He mentioned that when he playtested his Mono Blue deck vs. your Tooth build he devised some tech that was able to win the... Read more

By Dave Meddish

Based upon the powerful Black cards present in Champions of Kamigawa, however, if there was going to be a breakout deck, conventional wisdom stated that it was... Read more

By Star Wars Kid

If you plan on going one-for-one with Affinity, you are doomed from the start. Their "normal draw" is often good enough to overcome several pieces of early hate.... Read more

By Chris Richter

Rules Tip of the Day: If an ability triggers in the untap step of a turn, the ability will wait around until the upkeep step before it goes on the stack and eventually resolves.

Q: I had a question about Charmed Pendant. It says...

By Tyler Kilgore

For everyone who hasn’t immediately skipped to the forums to yell at me, this deck took me to a 6-0-1 record in the Swiss rounds against two Tooth and Nail decks... Read more

By Ted Knutson

My first question is this: What the hell happened to Jon Finkel? The guy disappeared like Bobby Fischer or something, did he fall into Magic obscurity or just give up the game for career/family etc? Read more

By Jeff Till

Welcome back to the fifth iteration of this Magic puzzles series. With States just behind us, it’s time to test your knowledge of the Kamigawa cards and mechanics that you might encounter. How exactly does Splice work? What... Read more

By Chris Richter

Rules Tip of the Day: The controller of a leaves-play triggered ability is the person who controlled the source of the ability when the permanent left play.

What responsibility do I have to inform my opponent of such triggers?...

By Ted Knutson

When you're covering Pro Tour matches do you think that while you’re writing the coverage down it makes the players play differently? For instance they think longer before they do something so as not to look stupid on the... Read more

By Nick Eisel

Nick Eisel has done it again. He's the only Limited writer on the planet willing to construct his own experiments, find subjects to test them on, and then write... Read more

By John H. Klauk

Is it possible for a deck to make the Top 8 at States sporting a full four copies of... Hana Kami? In this highly entertaining tournament report and account of his rogue creation, Mr. Klauk says the answer to that question is a definite yes. Read more

By Nick Eisel

The continuation of Nick's outstanding article investingating the ins and outs of a two-on-two team draft with Champions of Kamigawa. Read more

By Philip Stanton

For this installment, I have updated the largest table I maintain: the monthly occurrence stats for every card, in terms of how many copies showed up in an average... Read more

By Matthew Cory

The Mono-Black deck I wanted to play at States had subpar luck against Affinity, but great percentages against the rest of the field. Even after sideboard with 4 Relic... Read more

By Ben Bleiweiss

Bleiweiss's practical joke masterpiece has once again returned to our database. And there was much rejoicing... Read more

By Ted Knutson

How much do you think Cranial Extraction will limit the types of decks that are viable? Read more

By Chris Richter

Rules Tip of the Day: Triggered abilities like those of Teller of Tales and Kami of the Hunt that trigger when an Arcane spell is played will only trigger once per arcane spell, even if this Arcane spell has the text from other...