Wizards Tower
October 7, 2016
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Preparing for Pro Tour Kaladesh
If you have never played on the Pro Tour before, it's a tournament experience like none other. This week, I wanted to shed some insight into that experience for those wanting to know what they can do to prepare for an upcoming Pro Tour. When you finally win that first PTQ, top four an RPTQ or attain 39 points at a Grand Prix you will automatically receive an invite to that season’s Pro Tour....
Wizards Tower
October 6, 2016
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Predicting Modern: A Cautionary Tale
Modern can be an expensive format, especially if you want to maintain a large collection and play a lot of different decks. Keeping costs manageable means buying cards at the right time and being patient. While waiting for reprints or rotation of expensive cards is relatively straightforward, trying to acquire cheap cards before they become expensive is much more difficult. Most of the time you...
Wizards Tower
October 4, 2016
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Budget Brews: Pauper
Hello all and welcome to this weeks Budget Brews! Winning is nice, but it isn’t our main goal here at Budget Brews, instead we just try and have some fun! We tackle a few different ways to build here at Budget Brews, we either look at trying to make the more competitive decks cheaper on the wallet, or we just come up with something new that’s easy on the wallet! This week, is something new....
Sean Tabares
October 3, 2016
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What am I doing with my life?
What are you doing with your life? No, I'm not looking for you to answer any existential issues, I'm talking about life totals! In Commander, we start with 40 life. Let's take a look at what we can do with it besides just watch it tick down as our opponents try and pummel us into oblivion. The inspiration for this article comes entirely from . Man, what a card! I can't think of a better way to...
Wizards Tower
October 2, 2016
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Pro Tips on Kaladesh Limited
With the release of Kaladesh and two limited Grands Prix (GP Atlanta & London) right around the corner, players from all around the world will be trying their hardest to quickly learn the ins and outs of the latest format. Of course, not all of its secrets will be divulged until Pro Tour Hawaii, after which the main circuit pros will be more likely to share their real insights. Since I will...
Wizards Tower
September 28, 2016
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Budget Burn R/b Alchemist
Hello all and welcome to this weeks Budget Brews! Winning is nice, but it isn’t our main goal here at Budget Brews, instead we just try and have some fun! We tackle a few different ways to build here at Budget Brews, we either look at trying to make the more competitive decks cheaper on the wallet, or we just come up with something new that’s easy on the wallet! This week I want to take a...
Pierre Dupont
September 27, 2016
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From 0-2 to 3-2-1: A scrub's journey.
Welcome back all! The past week's Kaladesh prerelease has been amazing for me. I started the 10 a.m. flight on a bit of a downswing because of poor deck choices and well-administered whuppin' by the genial and Limited-centric Joey Hoffer, but collected myself for the 1 p.m. flight and essentially ensured top 16 with an extremely grindy green white deck subsisting on token makers, a little...
Andy Hull
September 26, 2016
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9 Kaladesh EDH Non Legendary cards to get excited about
Artifact sets have always been a boon to Commander players. Whether we're talking about Mirrodin, Mirrodin Beseiged, New Phyrexia or even the supplemental Daretti precon, commander players absolutely gobble them up. , , , , – all of these plus a truckload more were given to us by the two previous artifact blocks we've been given. So the question is, will Kaladesh be as generous to commander...
