Hello everyone! I know it’s been a bit since I’ve written an article, but such is the life of a student. The biggest development for Legacy over the past few weeks was the introduction of a new mulligan rule. The new rule, called the London Mulligan as it will be tested at the Mythic Championship in London, changes mulliganing in a big way. Unlike the Vancouver mulligan, where you draw one less card for each successive mulligan, the London mulligan allows you to redraw a full seven! That’s right, seven! When you are done mulliganing, you return X cards from
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Time!
One of the most basic components of playing Magic is resource management. Many overarching strategies rely on maximizing one or two resources to overwhelm an opponent. For example, a deck like Miracles relies on counter magic, and superior card draw and selection. It carves out an advantageous board state by denying an opponent access to resources while at the same time replenishing hand size. The Deck eventually wins with a ultimate, a pumped up , or a large . Grixis-Control uses discard spells and efficient creature kills spells to support opponent hand and resource denial, eventually going over the top
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Cosmic Horror Old School Throw Down GP Providence
I’ve been thinking about how to write this article for a few weeks now and I have come to the conclusion that I want it to be from my perspective as a new player to the format attending his first real “Old School” event. So I arrive about 30 minutes early to the Union House Brewery in Providence seeing as how I’m in charge of signing people up and doing all the round pairings. Turns out the bar doesn’t open until 11:30 but I wasn’t the only early bird. I got to meet Jared a member of New England Old
Read moreOld School: The Eternal Struggle
It has been a while since I last wrote here (6 months, in fact!), which also coincides with the limited opportunities I get to play face-to-face games. But much has transpired- new decks have been built, ideas have continued to percolate, a new format tried out…and prices on our beloved cards have continued to blow through every ceiling that was previously ‘all-time high’. For those of you that caught my title pun, I didn’t actually play V:TES back in the day. Decipher Star Wars CCG ate up my disposable income once I moved on from Magic, and now that I think
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