I remember my first White Weenie deck. I was just beginning to understand the basics of deck-building, and had recently cut down my two-hundred-card half-of-my-entire-collection special to a more reasonable seventy-two cards. I owned only starter set cards and a few random booster packs of Mercadian Masques, so my masterpiece was still full of hits [...]

Guys, I have the coolest, most innovative combo deck for you today! It involves a bulk rare from Rise of the Eldrazi and an innocuous little uncommon from New Phyrexia. Check it out: See, you play Deceiver Exarch, and then . . . And then . . . You already know, huh? Everyone has been [...]

Welcome back to "Under Preconstruction"! Today, I'll regale you with tales of valor and folly, of victory and hardship. I'll speak of horrible Days of Judgment, of glorious Gravitational Shifts at the last possible moment. It's the story of an unlikely hero, and it all begins with a simple precon. In case you have an [...]

What an interesting word: "rotate." What does it mean? To turn, to spin, to cycle through. The Earth rotates on its axis, for example. We rotate crops, we rotate tires. In Magic parlance, we say that sets rotate—but that's not exactly true, is it? I wouldn't say my friend Kyle rotated to Texas when he [...]

Last week, the Magic world got to see something we weren't supposed to. Some of us were excited by the unveiling, while others were understandably outraged. Since there is a general consensus that it would be a bad idea to post links to the original site, a friend and I have done our best to [...]

There's a Planeswalker from Zendikar block that draws cards, improves your board position, and wins games with his ultimate ability. It has put multiple players into the Top 8s of numerous Grand Prix, and won countless other tournaments around the world. And yet nobody is calling for this Planeswalker to be banned. You won't find [...]

Last Tuesday, Trick posted a pretty astonishing Tweet: @Mananation: Yesterday, ManaNation.com set a new record for single-day traffic, surpassing the previous record by over 3,000 visitors :) 11:26 AM Apr 5th via TweetDeck Wow! I mean, I'd hoped my article with tips on how to improve your game store would resonate, but record-breaking? Excuse me, [...]

I spent my childhood in a cramped, dusty, strip-mall store owned by the legendary Shawn "Hammer" Regnier (seriously, click the link, it's hilarious). How is this guy not in the Hall of Fame? The store wasn't anything fancy, but we got at least thirty people at every Saturday-morning Standard tournament, even during snowstorms. I was [...]

Change is afoot—and it sucks. This week has been allergy hell for me as springtime approaches, and my son, in his brash desire to stand up by himself, is constantly banging his head on things and screaming. Similarly, the Doom Inevitable precon is undergoing a few growing pains. Like the kid, my boldness exceeds my [...]

Change is afoot. As I write this, my son is laughing like a maniac as he makes his way down the hallway towards my desk. We're talking hands and knees here, none of the half-hearted scooting or shimmying he was doing a week ago. Last night I crept into his room, careful not to wake [...]