From Around the Web

Holiday Cube, The Best Time Of Year

Andreas Peterson at MTGMintCard explains his tactics for drafting Cube.

Standard Mono-Blue Aggro, the Format’s Ninja Warrior

Jim Davis at CoolStuffInc has a closer look at Mono-Blue Tempo, the format’s oft-forgotten but still potent dark horse choice.

Staying a Step Ahead of the MTG Arena Metagame

Compared to Magic Online, Arena is the wild west of metagaming. Adam Yurchick at MTGGoldfish takes a look at how it should change your approach.

Vintage 101: Days Gone By

With all this talk about Arena, Vintage hasn’t gotten much love lately.  Jon Dyer at MTGGoldfish has a full breakdown of one of the format’s best combo decks, Paradoxical Outcome Storm.

Magic Online versus Magic Arena

Shane “TheWolf” Garvey at PureMTGO compares Arena to Magic Online to guess how the two platforms’ futures will play out.

ICYMI: 5 Posts from ChannelFireball

Protecting An Advantage

Recognizing when you have an advantage and learning how to press it is one of the most important skills in Magic.

Ranking the Decks of Modern From Easiest to Most Difficult to Play

PV’s back to rank the decks of Modern from easiest to hardest to master!

Modern Cube Draft | Channel LSV

Head into a Modern Cube Draft alongside the master himself, LSV!

Paul Cheon on Cube and Limited Design

Marshall and Luis welcome their friend and Play Design team member Paul Cheon to the show to talk Cubing, Limited design, and more!

Andrea Mengucci Talks the Top Decks of the World Magic Cup

Join Andrea for a quick recap of the best performing decks for the World Magic Cup!

5 Tweets

lsvisntbad pic.twitter.com/3qMgmY2E2I

— Luis Scott-Vargas (@lsv) December 21, 2018

Drafted this monstrosity and @HAUMPH bet me that I couldn't 3-0, with the stakes being that I got to draft again (when we were supposed to record LR). We drafted again. pic.twitter.com/Ylgkdc8grk

— Luis Scott-Vargas (@lsv) December 20, 2018

Unrelated thoughts:
-arena is great, I’m actually enjoying playing precons and haven’t played much UMA which is insane
-can we still have team limited events?
-I don’t like best of one at all
-still holding out hope that MPL can be symbiotic with paper mythic events

— Paul Rietzl (@paulrietzl) December 20, 2018

https://twitter.com/bertuuuu/status/1077983897219149824

uh. we're good pic.twitter.com/2wk93ZuF0H

— ChannelFireball (@ChannelFireball) December 24, 2018

Research by William Lamping.