The Professor presents us with the idea for Hyper-animation.

Tags: Deck building, Deck Theory, Mana Curve, Sligh, Theory

Gold cards are nothing new for MTG, even if we have never been graced with an all-gold expansion before.  The 'gimmick' of Alara remains the use of tri-colored cards more so than simply gold cards.  Those tri-colored 'shards' of the Alara spectrum have given us many of the best cards in the set.  However, like [...]

Lee picks some of the top cards from Alara Reborn as ones he sees making impacts in the format.

Tags: Alara Reborn, Deck Construction, Limited, Standard

This week Trick talks to Brian Kibler, a Magic Pro returning to the big show after five years off. He'll be traveling to Hawaii for Pro Tour Honolulu. He has over 160 lifetime Pro Points, 2 Grand Prix wins, 8 Grand Prix Top 8s and is a well known deck designer. Listen as we discuss [...]

Tags: Audio, Brian Kibler, Deck building, ManaNationRadio, Pro Tour

The idea of an expansion, indeed the majority of an entire block consisting of multicolored cards does not appeal to me personally.  I worship the color pie and often find myself longing for the days when a black deck was a black deck and a red deck was a red deck.  The irony here is [...]

An analysis of B/W Tokens and what you do to win with it.

Tags: BW Tokens, Deck Analysis, Standard

Alara Reborn has nearly arrived.  The Shards are colliding, and we’re starting to get a sense of what that means for our current decks.  Simply put, its time for us to take a look at the our favorite cards from the final Alara expansion.  In rank order here are five cards I am most excited about playing [...]

Before the release of each expansion I do my best to try and predict the nature of that set.  We try to do this well before any cards are released.  This is not simply a wishlist of things I would want to see in the set, it is a strict analysis of the set itself [...]

Normally I like to keep my personal MTG experiences as merely examples here.  Because I'm fairly certain nobody really cares how my own games went, unless they involved spanking new cards.  However, this past Friday I grew a wild hair and decided to try something new to me.  Something I hope for your sake is [...]

Saito (or Saitou, the proper spelling is unknown) played his Naya Zoo to the championships and beat Yuuyu Watanabe's TEPS deck. This is his second Grand Prix victory in a row, having used the same (or very similar) deck to win Grand Prix Singapore just a few weeks ago. Top decklists forthcoming...

Tags: Extended, Grand Prix, Saitou, Tomoharu Saitou