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Magic: The Gathering Ravnica Allegiance’s Impact on Modern
Burn received plenty of new toys from Ravnica Allegiance, and there’s even a Birthing Pod. Are they good enough to break through in Modern? Avinan at the Daily Dot takes a closer look.
Sorry We… Don’t Know What Pauper Means
Pauper legality is remarkably difficult to unpack, and you can’t really understand how difficult until you’ve read Caliban’s article at MTGGoldfish.
Achieving Electrodominance
Michael Bonde at MTGMintCard has a new Mono-Blue Living End packing one of the sweetest new combo cards from Ravnica Allegiance.
What Everybody Gets Wrong About Modern Burn
It wouldn’t be a Mike Flores article without a story about him doing something “that one time,” and this one literally has a header that reads “That Time I Beat Affinity” so I don’t really see how you can not click it.
Two Surprising Standard Brews
We all knew the Gates deck was awesome in Limited, but I’m not sure if anyone saw “Constructed-playable” written all over Gatebreaker Ram. Seth Manfield covers the surprising breakout deck, and an Esper Midrange deck built around Hero of Precinct One.
ICYMI: 5 Posts from ChannelFireball
Amaz Plays Ravnica Allegiance in the Early Access Streamer Event
See how Amaz navigated Ravnica Allegiance Sealed in the Early Access streamer event on Arena!
The Mana in New Standard is Great, But Don’t Stretch it Too Far
Ten shocklands makes for an enticing amount of freedom, but don’t get carried away.
Updating Golgari Midrange with Hydroid Krasis
Hydroid Krasis is the biggest and baddest new finisher on the block, and it might just displace even the mighty Carnage Tyrant.
Cards and Strategies that Overperformed and Underperformed at the Streamer Event
This past weekend’s streamer event gave us a first look at Ravnica Allegiance cards in action.
Izzet Drakes with Pteramander Might Be the Best Deck in Standard
Sometimes a small update is all a deck needs to go from a strong choice to the best choice.
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https://twitter.com/OwenTweetenwald/status/1088478664428216320
Hot Take: People who dislike modern because it's high variance and linear dislike modern because it's high variance and linear https://t.co/5Vpc93SOlO
— Ben Stark (@BenS_MTG) January 29, 2019
Since the play design team got cranking, limited has been amazing. Dom is the best set in 10 years. GRN And RNA are both very good. It's almost like you need expert level magic players to do a good job on the much more complex(better) format of magic! https://t.co/96DOYC9trU
— Ben Stark (@BenS_MTG) January 25, 2019
We are beyond excited to be a part of this! Keep an eye out on https://t.co/PlGaYZRwAX in the coming week for details on where you can find all of this awesome content. https://t.co/5kRnvxp8p7
— ChannelFireball (@ChannelFireball) January 30, 2019
I’ll make sure to bring some tokens to the Invitational in case I face @OwenTweetenwald again. pic.twitter.com/Mbg2jjchwY
— Luis Scott-Vargas (@lsv) February 2, 2019
Research by William Lamping.
