ManaNation was eagerly awaiting the 2010 Grand Prix schedule, eagerly predicting a banner year for the accessible Grand Prix events. We had heard rumors that the success of Magic this year what with Magic 2010's record sales, Zendikar's sales, successes online with Magic Online and the Duels of the Planeswalkers. When the Grand Prix schedule [...]

Ben discusses the social contracts players live by and announces the winner of his signature line contest.

Today on their website Wizards of the Coast announced that the wildly popular Duels of the Planeswalker Xbox Arcade game will be expanding to the PC and the Playstation 3 in 2010. This isn't too big of a surprise as the game proved startlingly popular on the Xbox, racking up over 300,000 downloads in the [...]

Tags: Duel of the Planeswalkers, Duels of the Planeswalkers, Xbox

A shorter episode featuring an interview with Pro Player and deck designer Conley Woods during Pro Tour Austin. Conley shares excellent insights into Zendikar limited and what players do wrong when it comes to deckbuilding. Be sure to follow Conley on Twitter, @Conley81. Also, we are providing a WMV format video download for those who [...]

Tags: Deck building, Extended, Pro Tour, Pro Tour Austin, Zendikar

Three months ago wizards launched the Premium Deck Series with a tantalizing preview of what would become the first deck in that series. Consisting of 60 fully foiled cards, the PDS looks to be a great addition to the ever expanding MTG lineup. Since the announcement, the MTG community has been abuzz with speculation about [...]

To many of us this isn't going to be news, 'Rise of the Eldrazi' (shortened to 'RoE') had been discovered at the same time as 'Worldwake' but it took a while longer to be accepted as the name for the third set of Zendikar. Well today, the set logo as well as the expansion symbol [...]

JBoots gives us another excellent Zendikar draft along with his match play.

Tags: Drafting, MODO, MOL, MTGO, Zendikar

Sam shares his Time Sieve decklist exploring its viability in the current Standard format.

Trick explains the launch of the new ManaNation webcomic.

Tags: comic, tapped, webcomic

Magic the Gathering expansion sets always have a hook, something that separates them from every other set or at the very least their contemporary expansions.  Some times this hook is merely a theme that runs throughout the block using unique mechanics and flavor.  However there are times when a simple them is not enough and [...]