Category Archive: Magic the Gathering decks

The Japan Metagame Diaries: Listening to Your Inner Voice

You can’t always believe in what other people tell you. Sometimes you have to go with your gut and listen to your voice, your inner voice that is. Magic is the same way.… Continue reading

The Japan Metagame Diaries: Picking up the Pieces

On June 2nd and June 3rd, Over 600 players descended on Nagoya, Japan for the final World Magic Cup Qualifier and a Pro Tour Theros Qualifier. Among them were many legends and professionals:… Continue reading

Pay the Reaper

I know I should probably be finishing up my “Bang for your Buck” article with multicolor, but it’s much easier to do a quick update with some good news: one of my brews… Continue reading

Unqualified

(Fellow Nagoya native and Magic player Kamiken gives us his insight into the final World Magic Cup Qualifier on June 1st, 2013. He did much better than any other foreign player in the… Continue reading

Out for Blood at the World Magic Cup Qualifier

I’ve had a bad taste in my mouth lately. It’s like I’ve bitten my cheek and liquid from the wound has been gushing down my throat. However, I grew used to the taste,… Continue reading

Angry Tokens – Top 5 in the Dragon’s Maze Pre-release

If you read my last update about the pre-release, then you’d know that I went 2-0-1 at the midnight pre-release with a Golgari/Simic build (which was great), and 3-2 with a Gruul/Izzet build… Continue reading

Not Dead Yet – Rising from the Ashes

I just wanted to let my readers know that I’m not dead yet, and neither is this standard metagame. We are mere WEEKS away from a new set and people are still churning… Continue reading

Back from the Brink – A look forward to April and my time the USA

  I’m finally back from the USA! After a week I’m recharged, renewed, and ready to go. I filled my large suitcase entirely with gifts, candy, and other things that are difficult for… Continue reading

Taking out the Trash- Moeru Gomi

I don’t know if many of my readers have lived in Japan for long (or even at all), but if you have then you know how overly complicated garbage removal is. Every day… Continue reading

Game Day Gatecrash: Home, Home on the Midrange . . .

Oh give me a home, where the Thragtusk roam, Where the Huntmasters and  Restoration Angels play, Where seldom is heard, a Sheltering Word And the Favorable Skies are not cloudy all day Game… Continue reading