It’s 3am. My friend Mat and I have been playing Commander online for about 5 hours. We’re done playing for the night and start discussing some of the fun Rule 0 things we’ve done in that past, and some we want to do (please let me play as my Commander? No? Okay…) and we get […]... read more
Ikoria fever is sweeping the land of Commander with a bunch of great cards coming from the set itself as well as the five Ikoria-Themed Commander 2020 decks. We’re off to a great start with the Commander product-filled year we were promised. I’m going to look at the five face cards from the new Commander […]... read more
What a crazy few weeks! We hope you’re staying well, and adjusting to this strange new normal that has descended since the coronavirus outbreak. It’s a tough time all round – both from a business and a personal perspective. It’s been great to see the levels of love and support across the community, and hopefully […]... read more
Last weekend was a busy one on the competitive Magic scene. Saturday saw a full on day of Standard play, with our morning win-a-box event, followed by a slightly later Standard League – thank you to all who came along to support, and well done to our winners on the day… particular kudos to the […]... read more
Hello and welcome back, my friendly audience. Today I want to talk about the deck I played for Manaleak’s first Pioneer Preliminary, and how it performed for me on the day. My choice of deck was a Heliod/Walking Ballista combo deck; there are a lot of ways to build this deck, most commonly a mono […]... read more
32 Colour Combinations Challenge – The Premise What exactly is this “challenge”? In short, the idea is to build a Commander deck for every colour combination. That means a deck for each mono-colour (including colourless), each Ravnica Guild, each Shard/Tarkir clan, each Nephilim combination, and of course WUBRG (or “five colour”). The challenge appealed to […]... read more
As Storm Dennis swept across the UK, so did Pioneer season for the Competitive Magic scene. Despite the blustery day, players travelled from as far as Preston to join us for our first Wizards Play Network Qualifier preliminary. Thirty players competed through five rounds of Swiss to earn a spot in the Top 8, winning […]... read more
Since Andrew’s last article, bannings have settled, the meta has shifted, and competitive play is taking off for Pioneer. It’s time for an update on this popular new format. Pioneer, Magic’s newest competitive format, has now been showcased on the biggest stage, as the first Players’ Tour events took place in Brussels, Nagoya and Phoenix […]... read more