Hello Magic players! I’m a little late on this one, but here’s the Metagame report for July—and boy has M20 warped Standard. Orvhov Vampires: I hate, despise, and utterly dislike Adanto Vanguard every time it’s played. I’m not sure how it’s a fair Magic card, and the fact it triggers Knight of Ebon Legion with…
As if the MTG spoiler season didn’t already raise the hype to a fever pitch for M20, it’s now available on MTG Arena and I wanted to share my first impressions. After a few hours of playing, testing a new archetype I expect better players than I to refine, and then seeing how new cards…
For those who don’t know, E3 is the Electronic Entertainment Expo – three E’s or “E3”. It’s one of the biggest video game industry trade shows, primarily intended for consumers. This year’s E3 was sparse on big moments, but the ones it had were BIG! Here now is our round up of the best, worst…
Ready to Revive Arclight Phoenix A Lot? So, you play Standard at your local FNM, but what you really want to play is a deck that is like something out of Modern? Well, until Wizards of the Coast decides to ban Arclight Phoenix, you can do just that. For the price of playing three instants or…
Welcome back to the Metagame Report. The metagame right now feels very volatile and shifting, and there’s always seemingly a new deck popping up and wrecking people. I think that’s a good thing, but it does make it hard to predict when deck building. But, regardless, let’s look at a sample of what’s new and…
Bandersnatch: Something Old Made New Bandersnatch deserves a lot of slack, simply because it’s a technical achievement on another level and the fact it can function through a television interface is something that might become a game-changer. I’m genuinely excited to see what other creators are going to do with this technique. What sort of creations…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! For Star Wars fans that is. It’s May the 4th! A.k.a. Star Wars Day. And we’ve got 6 Star Wars freebies for you courtesy of Bioware and Star Wars: The Old Republic. During Star Wars Celebration 2019, SWTOR and the SWTOR fan community made a big showing….
Hello and welcome to another Magic: The Gathering Metagame Report. Already I have found the issue with this template: the top decks may change in order, but there are often not that many new creations this close to a set dropping. So, I’ll just cursory talk about decks I covered last month and anything climbing…
War of The Spark is peak Magic, and it’s going to absolutely blow a hole in every format in the game when it drops. Commander is getting absurd amounts of viable cards; I can see some of these making Modern, but it’s Standard I play, and it’s Standard I’m talking about here. And because I…
Welcome to the Metagame Report: the hopefully monthly article series where I, Brandon Scott, on-and-off Magic: The Gathering player of a decade, give my unsolicited opinions on 8 of the most powerful decks in the Standard metagame. Mono-Blue Tempo: Mono-Blue Tempo is the weirdest beast I’ve seen in a while. It’s breaking some of the…
With the release of Magic: The Gathering’s Ravnica Allegiance, I wanted to go over some cards I’m personally excited about and want to see what insane things people do with them. They might not shape up to be the best cards; they may not be the most viable in whatever format you happen to…
If memory serves, I’ve been playing Magic: The Gathering since I was 12 years old. And still to this day Magic remains a hobby I enjoy. And, my greatest praise of Magic: The Gathering Arena is it finally offers a solution for those of us who do not want to spend the money it takes…
