From Around the Web
Magic: The Gathering’s ‘War Of The Spark’ Expansion Gets A Trailer – Every Planeswalker We Saw
Izzy Doherty at The Gamer has the preview trailer for War of Spark.
Mono-Red Before Cleveland
Michael Bonde just Top 8’d in Cleveland, and earlier in the week he took a look at the state of Mono-Red in Standard.
Grinding on MTG Arena
Grinding Arena is all about getting the best bang for your buck, and Carlos Romao offers a few selections at Hareruya.
Battle of One: Grixis Control
If you’re looking for something different, Ali Aintrazi at CoolStuffInc has a new Grixis Control deck for Standard.
ICYMI: 5 Posts from ChannelFireball
MagicFest Video Coverage By ChannelFireball
LSV shares what ChannelFireball MagicFest coverage will entail.
The Mana in the Current Standard Hits a Sweet Spot
One good dual for aggro and one good dual for control is the ideal design for Standard.
Mythic Championship Cleveland Players to Watch: Mark Herberholz
Heading into Mythic Championship 1, Florian interviews Mark Herberholz, Pro Tour Champion and one of the most storied deck builders of all time.
Nexus of the Banned
In a not-so-surprising and perhaps anticipated move, Wizards banned Nexus from BO1 Arena play—but curiously, not from BO3.
The Gates Deck Is No Joke
It’s not a meme deck anymore. PV breaks down one of his favorite choices for the right metagame.
5 Tweets
I do think that it’s awesome that being a Magic Pro is now a viable and lucrative career, and have no problem with it requiring full dedication, but this does make it hard for a lot of incredible players to participate in high-level organized play with any consistency.
— Luis Scott-Vargas (@lsv) February 20, 2019
https://twitter.com/OwenTweetenwald/status/1098014308104060929
Taking on an exciting new job which means that I am making #2019MC1 my last event as an active member of the coverage family. Thank you to everyone who helped me along the way and I will absolutely miss the hell out of it. pic.twitter.com/6qB4WxDL4I
— Brian David-Marshall (@Top8Games) February 20, 2019
BDM is the only person I can remember covering me the first time I played on the PT back in 2001-2004 and still being there now 20 years later. Your coverage will be missed, but gl with the new job, and I'm hoping I'll still see you at the PT now that you are eligible to compete! https://t.co/fqVX87maDf
— Ben Stark (@BenS_MTG) February 20, 2019
Can’t bet without a market and we all say Reid https://t.co/HIq5b441B8
— Paul Rietzl (@paulrietzl) February 15, 2019
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