A few days delayed but here is the discussion between Trick and Lee about the Top 8 decks from the Pro Tour Austin PTQ in Dallas Texas. Hear about Elves, Reveillark, Jund Mana Ramp, Tokens and Five Color Control. Discuss this Episode

Tags: Deck Analysis, Deck Results, PTQ, Standard

It is that time again.  The time when each of us takes our new found cards and attempts to fit them in our already made decks.  Every new set of Magic the Gathering brings a slew of complex decisions.  Alara Reborn maybe more than most. There are 145 new cards in the expansion to Shards [...]

MySQL DB caused our downtime. Also this week's episode will be delayed.

Tags: Deck, Episode, forums, Magic, ManaNation, Pro Tour, PTQ

Mana can't buy everything in life, but in the game of Magic, it can certainly buy you vast amounts of power.  When considering the playability of a given card, the number one factor to account for is Mana cost.  Discussed at length on this site, the cards we consider to be "the best" are usually [...]

May 10th is Mother's Day and we here at Gathering Magic decided it would be a great idea to look through the history of MTG at some of the more famous mothers.  A noble quest to be sure.  One inspired by the notion that we could cobble together a Matriarch Theme Deck and fill it [...]

Some players don't engage in casual play. Any game that is played outside of a tournament setting is simply "Tournament Practice."  But most of us enjoy throwing together an extemporaneous deck for a casual multi or single player game.  In casual play (much like the 'sealed' format) victory isn't overdependent upon which playsets you bought [...]

Lee takes Trick's pre-release sealed deck cardpool, works through the Shards of Alara + Alara Reborn cardpool and then builds the deck he thinks could take it all. Compare it to what Trick built at the pre-release and check the forums for a list of the entire cardpool, a glitch in editing dropped a few [...]

Tags: Alara Reborn, Deck Construction, Sealed Deck, Shards of Alara

Let's open a booster pack is one of our running gimmicks here at GatheringMagic.  With the release of each new set, in this case Alara Reborn, we open a brand new booster pack and dissect each card therein. The future is still wide open, and that is the excitement behind opening boosters.  Each one a [...]

On the launch day of a new expansion set you would expect an upstanding publication such as this to thoroughly cover the event.  But the way Magic the Gathering spoilers are trickled down to the public, a new set has already been dissected, card by card, well before it's official release date.  With that in [...]