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Magic: The Gathering Pro Ben Stark Speaks About Yuuya Watanabe’s Disqualification
Danny Forster at DotEsports talks to Ben Stark about how he sees Yuuya Watanabe after his DQ.
“Magic: The Gathering” is Officially the World’s Most Complex Game
Nathan Rupert at MIT Technology Review explains why Magic proves to be too complex to create a pure computational approach to solving it.
Top 8 at Mythic Championship II with Titanshift
Thien Nguyen at Hareruya talks about how he made the Top 8 of the Mythic Championship.
War of the Spark: Top 10 Commander Cards
SaffronOlive at MTGGoldfish counts down the top 10 new Commander cards.
Top 5 Decks from Week 1 of War of the Spark Standard
StrictlyBetterMTG at TCGPlayer looks at five new exciting Standard decks.
ICYMI: 5 Posts from ChannelFireball
The Pauper Metagame Is Becoming Even More Top Heavy
In the time between Ravnica Allegiance and War of the Spark, the Pauper metagame has become dominated by Gush and monarch strategies.
Tronscending Modern Expectations
No one was more surprised than PV when he realized he would play Tron at MC London, but it’s the deck that gained the most with the mulligan rule.
Sperling’s Sick of It: 2nd Place at Mythic Championship II, Part One
Matt reached the Top 8 at MC London in the unlikeliest of ways. But he took that opportunity, and Affinity, all the way to the finals.
War of The Spark Draft | Channel Reid
Jump into a Draft of the newest Magic: The Gathering set, War of the Spark, with Reid Duke!
Hit or Myth: War of the Spark Edition at MagicFest London
Mashi is joined by the Ben Seck for Hit or Myth at MagicFest London! Find out what they think of all fifteen mythics from War of the Spark.
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Apparently Arclight Phoenix won the MTGO PTQ, and in grand Phoenix tradition, added like two cards from the most recent set. Was this deck just perfect after Guilds?? pic.twitter.com/jtE2HrvQPr
— Luis Scott-Vargas (@lsv) May 9, 2019
same energy pic.twitter.com/YPKxiNqBY7
— ChannelFireball (@ChannelFireball) May 7, 2019
🔹🔹🔹The MPL starts this weekend! Which of the groups do you think is strongest? 🔹🔹🔹 pic.twitter.com/8FgWGaxfpo
— Paulo Vitor (@PVDDR) May 6, 2019
You know what's REALLY damaging to the community? Marking your sleeves so you know what cards are coming. And he's probably been doing it for years. Can someone translate that for me please? https://t.co/sl635h5aZk
— Matt Sperling (@sickofit) May 8, 2019
This is @BasicMountain’s MTGO Death Rig. The left hinge is broken, the charger barely works, and it’s from 2012.
I suggested that it might be time for a replacement. His response: “Buying a new laptop is how they win.”
WHO IS THEY???!!!
(He’s 1-0 with Burn) pic.twitter.com/G4StRu1F4J
— Cedric Phillips ✈️ Cleveland (@CedricAPhillips) May 4, 2019
Research by William Lamping.
