Kelley's guide on how to top 4 FNM having never played the set!

I had not been able to play Scars up to Friday because I had to work the last two weekends.  Usually I will attend the Fat Pack Battle, Prerelease, and Release events, but this time it just didn't work.  I didn't even get to pick up my preordered boxes until Friday.

So basically I had no freaking clue what I was going to do.  I knew that the planeswalkers were good, Ratchet Bomb, most of the mythics, etc, but I had no idea what commons or uncommons were good at all.

A PTQ Top 4... and More!

Today, I talk a bit about what Scars limited has to offer, both in terms of sealed and in terms of drafting, and featuring examples from this weekend's past PTQ in Detroit. With the limited PTQ season in full swing and two limited GPs coming up, this may be the most (or only) relevant article I ever write!

Insights into Standard.

With the new standard format still fairly new there is still a lot to figure out as far as what deck you want to play, which cards are good, and which cards are not really all that good. There is just so many different decks and cool ideas. So I am just going to offer some insight on what I think are the best cards to play and talk about what I think the best deck in standard is. I will also cover the cards that seem neat, but we should stay away from.

Jokesin' with MonoBlue

Howard's brought you the aggressive Joros deck, now check out his spin on control.


Introducing: Jokesin' with MUC

8 Reasons to be Attacking in Scars Draft

So you're playing in a PTQ this season, and you made top 8 on the back of a busted sealed pool with plenty of removal and every bomb imaginable. You're pumped, thinking you should have a good shot of winning a free trip to Paris and the PT invite.

Wait, now you have to draft? Hmm, guess all those bombs aren't going to help you anymore. I guess you have to learn how to compete with fair cards.

MI States 2010 *Top 8*

This past weekend I attended MI States and Top 8'd the event with Valakut. Read on for gameplay, fun stories, and tales of Trusty Machete!

Reaching for Victory - 2 - Sealed Build

Sealed Build for Richard Franklin's pool, PTQ Paris on 10/10/10 in Garden City.

Richard Franklin's Sealed | The Rusty Machete

14 Creatures:  
1 Chrome Steed
1 Copper Myr
1 Darksteel Sentinel
1 Glimmerpoint Stag
2 Gold Myr
1 Hoard-Smelter Dragon
1 Iron Myr
1 Necropede
1 Skinrender
1 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
2 Snapsail Glider
1 Sylvok Replica

9 Spells:  
1 Contagion Clasp
1 Darksteel Axe
1 Glint Hawk Idol
1 Horizon Spellbomb
1 Revoke Existence
1 Shatter
1 Trigon of Corruption
1 Turn to Slag
1 Venser, the Sojourner

17 Lands:  
1 Blackcleave Cliffs
3 Plains
3 Island
5 Mountain
5 Swamp

2 Sideboard:  
1 Words of Wilding
1 Reach Through Mists

What do you like, and what do you not like about it?  Post it up in the comments!