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
This is what esports looked like when I started playing magic, and it was great. Now that we are esports too, can we please bring back that sweet late '90s BW attire? pic.twitter.com/pzRWo6xaN6
— Lucas Berthoud (@bertuuuu) December 26, 2018
uh. we're good pic.twitter.com/2wk93ZuF0H
— ChannelFireball (@ChannelFireball) December 24, 2018
Research by William Lamping.