In Development – Iona, I Choose You
It’s a trap! A Summoning Trap? Also in this article Alex defines his pet word, orthogonal.
In Development – Building the Enemy
The Standard metagame is slowly taking shape, so now it’s time to take a look at how to take advantage of your available resources.
In Development – Building Up From Good Enough
Today’s lesson plan includes the ever-continuing need to adjust your deck despite getting good results.
In Development – A Series of Harrowing Decisions
Now that the Vivid + Pool combo is gone, how do we build suitable mana bases? Alexander takes his usual thorough approach to solving this puzzle.
In Development – Tensions in Sideboarding
So you’ve got a good skeleton of a deck. Now you need a sideboard. Alex explains why you shouldn’t just slap 15 cards onto the end and call it a day.
In Development – Red Teaming
Continuing to refine his builds, Alexander learns some important lessons in the budding Standard format, and introduces a new term to Magic players: Red Teaming.
In Development – Developing a Context
Alexander gets to work on building new decks for Standard. The first card he wants to build a deck around is Luminarch Ascension.
In Development – Clarity of Purpose
Channelfireball.com is proud to welcome Alexander Shearer to Wednesdays. He’s another player with a rogue’s spirit.