First off, I have to say I really enjoyed the 2-Headed Giant format. It was a ton of fun and a nice change from all the extended/standard of late.

I know what you want.
See, you and me, we’re very similar. We read tournament reports about new sets for a few reasons: We want to see some of the limited strategy we’ve all thought about put to the test, we want to know what we missed if we weren’t their, and we want to know [...]

Hello again. Looks like I’m back in the saddle and winning a little at MTGO again. Yesterday I played in 2 queues with Viridian Rats and only made it to the second round once. Today was a different story however, as I took the little furry beasts to two finals splits. Here is the list I’m using; as you will see it’s quite similar to the Viridian Rats decks that were played to success at Canadian Nats.

Recently I went to the LA PTQ qualifier in Burnaby. I was over on the mainland anyway, and since I was already there I decided to attend and try my luck. I would need luck as I’d only seen Kamigawa-block cards for about 3 weeks. I was still learning the format and unfamiliar with many of the cards as I hadn’t played any competitive Magic since Tempest came out.

It was a balmy Burnaby morning when a van full of Victoria Magic players pulled up to Mishra’s Game Shop, a mecca in the Canadian West Coast Magic scene. The store’s history harkens back to the days of yore when the only Magic cards in existence had black borders, people still played for ante, and Moxes were traded for War Elephants and a Moorish Cavalries.

Since I want to give you something, I might as well give you a summary of a Singleton event I just played. Singleton is the online version of the popular casual format Highlander, wherein your deck may contain only one copy of any card.

Well, its been a lonnnnnng week, and I decided to do something fun and enter a 2x prizes Extended tourney on MTGO. New extended may just be my favorite format of all time, as it is incredibly diverse, with no decks (yet) being too broken, and great aggro, control, and combo decks all being viable. [...]

So yeah, I’ve been slacking. But I have been playing a lot of tournaments. Some of them were a while ago, so good summaries of what happened are not available.

As the title indicates, I didn’t do so well today. I went 2-2 drop in a 2x Standard and didn’t do well in the queues either. Here’s a recap:

Ok, I know that this article is just about 8-person queues, but before I start with those I guess I should tell you about a couple other tournaments I entered.