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Uro on MTGO: Lessons from the MOCS

David Ernenwein — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 17:00:28 +0000

Continuing on with article types that have been vanishingly rare this year, it's time to look at the lessons from a specific tournament. I haven't done this since February because there just haven't been any Modern tournaments. Wizards has neglected every other format in order to push Arena. Which means that other competitive formats have been neglected. […]

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Finding Value in the New Standard

Joseph Davidson — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 10:15:20 +0000

New heroes are rising up to fill Omanth's place in Standard after the bannings and it's resulted in a healthier standard format than we've seen in a long time. Joe takes a look for value amongst some of the new format's most popular movers and shakers.

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Ikoria Pauper Picks

Joseph Davidson — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:00:09 +0000

Joe takes a look at his top four picks for Ikoria commons to add to your speculation box.

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Fighting Jund: A Beginner’s Guide

David Ernenwein — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 16:00:42 +0000

Well, this is rather unfortunate. I was intending to start building a new metagame dataset with SCG Baltimore this week. However, COVID-19 has led to basically everything for the next month being cancelled. Which means I'll need to rely on online data for the foreseeable future. The problem is there isn't enough non-League data to […]

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Beyond Hindsight: Theros Spoilers Re-Examined

David Ernenwein — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 17:00:00 +0000

As a new sets come out, the entire Magic writing world speculates on the spoilers. Why wouldn't we? There's not always much else going on during spoiler season, and brewing with new cards and ideas is a significant part of the game's appeal. Plus, if Wizards is going to hand us easy content, it would […]

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U Mirin’: Theros Beyond Death Spoilers, Pt. 2

Jordan Boisvert — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 17:00:45 +0000

Theros: Beyond Death spoilers are well underway. David covered the heavy-hitters earlier this week, but more cards have been revealed, and the set seems packed full of low-level goodies that stand to very marginally improve some of Modern's many strategies. Let's take a look at at some of the most underrated tech in the new […]

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