Guest author Andrew Wilson looks at why you should design your own cards, and a few fun casual formats where they may be welcome.

Ben was feeling rather pirate-y and took the joke Pirate deck Wizards released back in April to convert it into a crazy fun EDH deck.

Tags: EDH, Elder Dragon Highlander, Pirate

Guest author, Steve Gargolinski, shares with us his thoughts on Planechase and how much fun he has had with it.

Tags: Casual, Planechase

How did you learn to play Magic?  Some of you probably saw it in its infancy, picked up some Alpha cards, read the somewhat vague rules and figured it out with your friends.  As rules were updated and streamlined, you read or heard about the biggest relevant changes and adjusted your play accordingly.  Others saw [...]

Videotaped a few weeks ago at Grand Prix Tampa, here is a video of Brian Kibler drafting Zendikar. Watch his draft as Trick narrates and gives explanations and theories on why he made certain picks. WMV Download - If you prefer a higher resolution and non-MP4 format, here it is as a WMV. Want more [...]

Tags: Brian Kibler, Draft, Grand Prix Tampa, Zendikar

Andre Coimbra of Portugal defeated David Reitbauer to become the 2009 World Champion of Magic. It was an epic battle between Jund and Naya style decks, with Naya coming out on top. Andre is a long time pro, and has been in the Top 8 of Worlds before four years ago in 2005. He has [...]

Tags: 2009, Pro Tour, Rome, Worlds

Trick's predictions yesterday weren't completely destroyed in Day 3. Trick reviews and makes his final set of predictions.

Tags: 2009, Rome, Worlds

As was announced a few hours ago on the World Championships's official Wizards.com coverage (link), three players were disqualified from the World Championships in Rome on Day 2 of the tournament, one of whom was ManaNation.com's own contributor Jonathan Boutin, better known as 'JBoots.' ManaNation.com is dedicated to teaching Magic and being a positive resource [...]

Tags: 2009, Jonathan Boutin, Rome, Worlds

Trick surveys the information for day 2 from Rome and makes his predictions.

Tags: 2009, Rome, Worlds

Trick rounds up this week's best Magic articles, blog posts and stories and shares his list of Magic links

Tags: Articles, blog posts, links