Hey everyone!
I’ve been playing plenty of Modern and I feel confident playing the current best deck in the format: Rakdos Scam.
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I’ve been playing plenty of Modern and I feel confident playing the current best deck in the format: Rakdos Scam.
View moreI’m proud of the opportunity to once again provide an update to one of Magic’s longest updated decks, my The Danger Room stack! Today, I’ll be sharing my favorite picks for Battle Boxes, and unpowered Cubes alike. The cards I’ve selected from MTG’s newsest expansion, Wilds of Eldraine, to make the cut in my “big stack” have to carry their weight in 1v1 Battle Box play, 1v1 Cube as well as EDH Cube. So, I tend to gravitate toward cards that I view as having a lot of “play”…
View moreI tried my hand at the Pauper format last weekend and had a blast. RIW held a Pauper 1K and I split the finals!
Here’s the top 8 photo. Also in the top 8 is PT competitor, Nick Sobczak, and Nick Norman, who won the Pauper Challenge earlier in the day. RIW emphasizes Pauper so it was stiff competition.
View moreRIW Hobbies had a big week of events at the store this past week and we’re excited to recap all the fun events, twists and turns in our local metagame, as well as highlight upcoming events that will be taking place at the store soon.
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I’ve been playing Rakdos Midrange to great success on the RCQ circuit. Despite not having time to play the Regional Qualifier, I’ve split two finals and conceded after a top 8 split in the last three events. One day events with swaths of store credit to win is where I want to be currently with a young son and a demanding job.
View moreWelcome to RIW Weekly MTG Tournament Review and Events, the column where you can read about the metagames for our weekly events as well as learn about our upcoming tournaments and in-store MTG play.
View moreIt’s been a fantastic summer of Magic: the Gathering in store play here in Livonia, Michigan and we’re only looking forward to more great games upcoming! Today, we’ll be taking a look at in store play from last week as well as featuring our exciting events on the horizon.
View moreThe Magic world was hoping for a shakeup. Last Monday was a Banned and Restricted announcement that many people hoped would lead to splashy unbans in the Modern format like Splinter Twin or Field of the Dead, as well as bans from Mono-Green Devotion in Pioneer. What we got was tame by comparison: Preordain was unbanned in Modern and Mind’s Desire was unbanned in Legacy.
View moreI’ve been playing plenty of Modern in preparation for NRG Detroit. Temur Rhinos has seen a resurgence and is a deck I’ve enjoyed in the past. Today I will cover the metagame changes from Pro Tour: Lord of the Rings and the many deckbuilding options for Temur Rhinos.
View moreIt was another fantastic week of events here at the store in Livonia, Michigan and today we’ll be recapping last week’s action and looking forward to next week’s in-store Magic: the Gathering events.
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