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Reflecting Ruel – Grand Prix: Kitakyushu, by Olivier Ruel

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Friday, November 6th - Olivier Ruel reflects on a lackluster performance at Grand Prix: Kitakyushu, which has led him to some serious questions about his place in the game. Today, he theorizes on the things you can do to get out of a Magical slump, and shares a few positive thoughts along the way!

Positive EV – Discussing Zendikar #2: Red and Black, by Manuel Bucher

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Friday, November 6th - In the second part of the Discussing Zendikar Limited article series, Oli and Manu shift their focus to Red and Black. The colors of removal appear to be the strongest in the set, but do you pick that Marsh Casualties over Vampire Nighthawk? Or that Punishing Fire over the Plated Geopede? Read on to find out!

Insider Information – A Sealed Deck Cardpool Experiment (Part 2), by Cedric Phillips

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Friday, November 6th - In the second part of this intriguing experiment, Cedric Phillips discusses his thoughts on the cardpool he shared yesterday. He gives us a few prospective builds, and comments on the salient points from the extensive forum debate.

The Magic Show #164 - A New Magic Online, by Evan Erwin

Friday, November 6th - Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. This week we're going to bring you some of the most exciting footage from Austin you've yet to see, which is that of the new Magic Online UI redesign. There was many a mention from the Magic Online developers on how they were getting a "UI Expert" from Nokia and Microsoft to come help fix the ugly Magic Online interface, and it shows. And we'll also feature a few video extras from PT: Austin. Let's go!

Embracing The Chaos - And Now for Something Completely Hippo, by Sheldon Menery

Friday, November 6th - The rotation of decks continued through the Armada Games EDH League, this time with the original, Phelddagrif. The purple hippo deck originally started because of how bad the card is. It was a concession to the fact that I had a giant collection and my group consisted of casual players who didn’t have four copies of everything cool.

You Lika The Juice? – A Halloween Grab Bag of Magic, by Bennie Smith

Friday, November 6th - Today I thought I’d shake things up a bit. While I do have a recounting of my EDH game with a Halloween themed Baron Sengir deck at the end of the column, I wanted to start things off by examining two Zendikar sealed deck pools. We’ve got a double PTQ weekend in Richmond in a week, and while I’m not a big fan of Sealed, I’ve got to at least try. Help?

The Chump Block - Angel Sledge in Standard, by Zach Jesse

Friday, November 6th - After Ascending Pyromaniacally for several weeks, our hero (me) finally felt like it might be time to put the deck that I talked about the other week on the shelf. While certainly powerful and capable of completely degenerate draws – triple Ponder, Pyromancer’s Ascension comes to mind – the long and short of the matter is that the deck is just a little bit of a dog to Jund.