PTQ with Kmaster

Hi everyone!
Today I'm going to bring you my report for the first PTQ for the extended season that I've attended offline. I'll share my decklist, some of my games, and analyze the Top 8 results. Enjoy!

Drafting with Dread_ #2 - UZ/UZ/UL

So, after getting pretty bored with SOM drafts, I decided to do a Urza's Saga/Urza's Saga/Urza's Legacy draft for fun.

For those of you unfamiliar with the format, this is the infamous "Pestilence at common" set, where black is by far the best color - at least in Urza's Saga; thanks to cards like Expunge, Befoul, and Corrupt all at common. Black is so good, in fact, that at least half the table will often be drafting black. So far, judging from my (minimal) experience, I would say the basic color rankings are Black Red/Green Blue/White. In terms of archetypes, the format is pretty straightforward, with mostly aggressive decks, and a few slower controllish decks. The theme here is enchantments, and there are a lot of them, so enchantment removal is often maindeckable.

Pack 1, Pick 1:

Feature Article - King of the Scrubs - What I learned from 'winning' a Legacy Event

Hi, my name is Amir Gamzu, and I’m a Magic player.

I’ve been meaning to pen something for the Rusty Machete for quite some time, so I’m taking a page from Basem’s book and using a tournament win as a catalyst. In the future, you will likely see articles about my favorite formats; Cube, Type IV and EDH or about collecting as that’s really what I’m best at, but for now this is what I call a tournament report.

Extending the Format

Hello Everyone! I'm back after a fairly long absence from Rusty Machete (and, to a lesser extent, Magic in general) with a look at what's going on in extended- with the first modo ptq done and several real-life ptq's soon to come, we've no time to waste.

Extended Daily with Faeries

Hi everyone, welcome back to the Rusty Machete. Content's been a bit low due to finals and then the holidays, but we'll have a lot of new articles ready for you when 2011 comes! To bring in the New Year and wet your appetite for the next PTQ season, I'll walk you through a Magic Online Extended Daily Event I played in with Faeries and what I learned. Enjoy!

The Bastille #2 - Attacking from all angles, and faxing questions. Part 1. (PTQ winner’s report)

Welcome friends and perusers to my second article.  I had been meaning to write one for some time now but could not think of anything interesting to write about.  I mentioned in my last article that I would write about a blue/white do-nothing standard deck, but I decided that I would rather not shame myself by writing about an untested deck that featured Archive Traps and Rest for the Weary.  So…winning this last Detroit PTQ came just in time to give me something to write about, and I would have done it sooner but I’m lazy (I also thought that seeing the pool I was gifted would discredit my win, but I still had to play 8 rounds and draft in the top 8).

Well, let’s get to it; here’s the pool I opened and the deck I built out of it: 

Legacy Mox Tournament Report

Last Saturday, Get Your Game On held a legacy tournament, with first place being a Mox Emerald and the rest of the top 8 getting other fairly good prizes. I don't have much experience in the format, having only played in a handful of weekly events with decks I've borrowed from others, but after clearing my schedule for Saturday and confirming I'd be able to get the necessary cards I decided to give the event a shot.