Magic: The Gathering

Magic: the Gathering at New York Comic Con 2012

Hey all, if you haven’t heard yet VGL will be heading to New York Comic Con. So if you are in the area or planning on attending drop us a line so we can hang out!   On a more informative front, with me being the primary Magic: the Gathering...

MTG: Gameday Core 2013

Magic: Core 2013 Gameday Jon and I set out this past weekend to find a fun place to play not only a FNM, but also for this set’s Gameday (featuring a Nicol Bolas Champion playmat). I had played my current standard deck a few times before and felt fairly confident...

10 Contributions of Avacyn Restored to Legacy

Hello! My name is Alex and I have been playing Magic the Gathering on and off since about Onslaught block. With the recent release of Avacyn Restored I have an urge to play magic now more than ever. This set has some amazing cards that I think will really make...

What to Play: Standard

I’ve been asked a lot recently about what I’m playing in standard, what people should be playing in standard, etc. Standard is the current PTQ format, it’s the most common SCG IQ format, but most of all it is the predominant format for FNM and is the format for Avacyn...

Cube: The Next Step

Hey everyone, I want to first off apologize for missing last week. I, like many of you, played a little too much magic last weekend with the pre-releases happening and took time Sunday to catch up on sleep. So now I have two weeks worth of cube trades to talk...

Land Tax: Moving towards Avacyn Restored

Avacyn Restored is shaping up to be an awesome set of magic cards. If you haven’t been keeping up with the spoilers, I’ll kindly point you in the right direction. There are so many great cards: Avacyn, Griselbrand, Cavern of Souls, Tamiyo, Thunderous Wrath, etc, etc. Rather than writing a...

Cube: Starting Out

For those of you who know me, you know that I spend the majority of my free time playing Magic, which is probably why I still haven’t managed to hit level 50 in SW:TOR, haven’t 100% completed Arkham City, and haven’t even touched a number of other games. I’ve been...