About a year ago, watching the trials at GP: Columbus, I noticed an abundance of a deck that piqued my interest: Hive Mind combo. While it appeared to be shaky in terms of draws, it has some very strong ones that rivaled the power of any Storm combo deck. I watched someone go turn-one Ancient [...]

Based on the results of recent American events, Caw-Blade is currently exhibiting a stranglehold on Standard. With it usually taking up around half of every Top 8, it is clearly Public Enemy Number One, and the current metagame is not able to keep it down. Innovation of new and restoration of old strategies is a [...]

Coming out of Pro Tour: Paris, Caw-Go and Boros are obviously your decks to beat. Various Tezzeret decks are also contenders, but the results of Squadron Hawk + Stoneforge Mystic decks were dominating. Half of the decks that went 7-2-1 or better played Hawks, and the deck posted a 60-percent win rate. The first and [...]

Tags: Gauntlet, Metagame, Standard

Before you read this, keep in mind that all lists below, bar one, should be tested reasonably well before use. At the very least, sideboards and exact lists could use tuning, and at worst, the deck is unforgiving and decision-dense. Most of these lists are also not mine. Credit is given where credit is due. [...]

Tags: Constructed, Legacy

In light of Goblins' recent success, an analysis of it is well deserved. Historically Goblins has been one of the dominant Legacy decks, especially after major format upheavals and bannings. In addition to having linearly powerful draws and mana disruption to punish poor decks and mulligan decisions, it has a surprisingly strong long game. It [...]

Ari shares some of the non-Magic stories that he has from this year filled with Magic.

Ari Lax battled his way to a 2nd place finish at GP Nashville, see how he did it in this report!

Ari noticed one card that rose above the rest in Extended at Worlds; do you know Thoughtseize?

Ari Lax goes for a hat-trick of hat-tricks talking about Worlds this past weekend.

Ari Lax examines the new Vampires and how it succeeds where old Vampires decks failed.