MagicFest Online Qualifier Week 2 Monday Qualifier Decklists
In the first season of MagicFest Online, there will be four flights of Daily Qualifiers and all players who achieve a 5-1 or 6-0 record will be going through to...
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MagicFest Online Qualifier Week 1 Weekend Championship Top 32 Decklists
The first week of MagicFest Online has now wrapped up! The Weekly Championship consisted of all players who managed a 5-1 or better record in one of the Daily Qualifiers...
MagicFest Online Qualifier Week 2 Sunday Qualifier Decklists
In the first season of MagicFest Online, there will be four flights of Daily Qualifiers and all players who achieve a 5-1 or 6-0 record will be going through to...
MagicFest Online Qualifier Week 2 Saturday Qualifier Decklists
In the first season of MagicFest Online, there will be four flights of Daily Qualifiers and all players who achieve a 5-1 or 6-0 record will be going through to...
How I Qualified for the First MagicFest Online with Simic Flash
Hello my fellow Zoners! Standard has been on a real rollercoaster ride these last couple of months. After Worlds in Hawaii, it seemed like UW had a stranglehold on the...
MagicFest Online Qualifier Week 1 Friday Qualifier Decklists
In the first season of MagicFest Online, there will be four flights of Daily Qualifiers and all players who achieve a 5-1 or 6-0 record will be going through to...
MagicFest Online Qualifier Week 1 Thursday Qualifier Decklists
In the first season of MagicFest Online, there will be four flights of Daily Qualifiers and all players who achieve a 5-1 or 6-0 record will be going through to...
MagicFest Online Qualifier Week 1 Wednesday Qualifier Decklists
In the first season of MagicFest Online, there will be four flights of Daily Qualifiers and all players who achieve a 5-1 or 6-0 record will be going through to...
MagicFest Online Qualifier Week 1 Tuesday Qualifier Decklists
In the first season of MagicFest Online, there will be four flights of Daily Qualifiers and all players who achieve a 5-1 or 6-0 record will be going through to...
To Best-of-One or To Best-of-Three? An In-Depth Comparison & Contrast of Arena’s Modes
Magic has changed vastly in its 27 years. In the old days, there used to be all these wonky rules, weird ways to word things, cards that were just completely...
MagicFest Online Week 1 Monday Qualifier Highlights and Metagame Breakdown
Monday Qualifier Metagame Breakdown Deck Archetype # of Decks % of Decks Mono Red Aggro 92 16.2 Jeskai Fires 79 13.9 Bant Ramp 62 10.9 Rakdos Sacrifice 56 9.9 Sultai...
MagicFest Online Qualifier Week 1 Monday 6-0 and 5-1 Decklists
In the first season of MagicFest Online, there will be four flights of Daily Qualifiers and all players who achieve a 5-1 or 6-0 record will be going through to...
The Mythic Society MTG vs COVID-19 #3 Top 16 Historic Decklists
Azorius Control took down The Mythic Society’s first Historic tournament, with 58 players participating. We rarely see Historic tournaments, so this is a great snapshot at the diverse Historic metagame....
Top Mythic Ladder Decks – March 2020 Season – Week 3
A truly gripping aspect, that lends Standard a lot of longevity, is seeing its evolution week-by-week as the metagame’s churning cauldron spits out its latest innovations. In week 3, we...
The Mythic Society MTG vs COVID-19 #2 Top 8 Standard Decklists
The Mythic Society’s second MTG vs COVID-19 tournament series wrapped up today. Rivals League member Matt Sperling takes down the tournament once again with a perfect record thanks to the...
The Mythic Society MTG vs COVID-19 #1 Top 8 Standard Decklists
The competitive Magic: The Gathering scene has ground to a halt due to COVID-19 as all major events have been rescheduled at least until May. As MTGO and MTG Arena...
Historic Anthology 2 Decks – Pros, Streamers, Mythic Decklists and Deck Ideas!
Historic Anthology 2 is the latest set of 25 cards from Magic: The Gathering’s past that has been added to the Historic card pool along with MTG Arena’s latest patch...
Ikoria Mythic Invitational Qualifier #2 Decklists – All 10 Win Decks Now Up!
The top 1200 Mythic players from the February ranked season were eligible to participate in today’s Ikoria Mythic Invitational Qualifier #2! All players who reach 10 wins before 2 losses qualify...
History Anthology 2 Card Review: Theorycrafting with Some Sweet Build-Arounds
Welcome back! This is a followup to my previous review, where I theorycrafted up some example homes and ideas for the best cards in Historic Anthology 2. This time, I’m...
Top Mythic Ladder Decks – March 2020 Season – Week 2
The March game update patch has just been released, and over the next few weeks the focus will be again divided into the Standard and Historic format for the ranked...
MagicFest Lyon 2020 Standard PTQ Top 8 Decklists
MagicFests also have side events other than the Grand Prix main event. The Player’s Tour Qualifiers (PTQs) grant invitations to the big tournament and are highly competitive as well, though...
Best-of-One (BO1) Aggro Deck Building with Hand Smoothing
Writing a good intro to an article is like selecting an opening hand in an aggro deck. If it isn’t obviously flowing smoothly for the first few turns (or sentences),...
Updating Mono Colored Decks for Historic Anthology 2
The March game update, Historic ranked queues and Historic Anthology 2 cards are right around to corner and over the next few days, we will be providing you with some...
Drifter’s Theros Beyond Death Limited Tier List Update – March 8, 2020
Welcome folks! Theros is back in Ranked Draft now, thankfully, and we’re approaching late stages of the format. The Arena bots have been fixed a lot and I think are...
MagicFest Lyon 2020 Top 8 Decklists and Metagame Breakdown
The first Standard Grand Prix of 2020 has just wrapped up in Lyon, France! Mono Red Aggro eventually came up on top among a diverse field of 585 players competing...
Top Mythic Ladder Decks – March 2020 Season – Week 1
Standard is still moving along and evolving after the Mythic Point Challenge last week, and under its influence the first week of the March 2020 Ranked Season has now almost...
Historic Anthology 2 Card Review: Theorycrafting the Big Hits
Hi everyone! Today I’ll be going over the four most exciting cards in Historic Anthology 2, giving my thoughts on them and some sample decks and ideas to give you...
Mythic Point Challenge – Ikoria Decklists
The first Mythic Point Challenge has now wrapped up on MTG Arena, a tournament that players who achieved the top 1200 Mythic ranking in the previous seasons were qualified to...
MTG Arena’s Opening Hand Algorithm and Smoothing: Finding the Ideal Land Count for BO1
Welcome back! I wrote previously about the impact of hand smoothing on Arena’s Best of One format; I won’t rehash that piece here but it showed that the effect of...
Top Mythic Ladder Decks – February 2020 Season – Week 4
The end of the ranked season is nigh, and the Mythic Point Challenge – Ikoria event should now be visible on the in-game client to those who have already qualified....
