Jess Stirba

Senior Staff Writer

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Duels with an Operating System

Duels of the Planeswalkers 2014 may be a little too lowest-common-denominator, but for less than a price of a draft there’s enough there to spend at least a night at it, and probably more.

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The Salable Cube

Someone said recently that Modern Masters plays out like Pauper Cube with bombs. Having finally gotten a chance to play the format, I can’t say I disagree.

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The Process Changes the Product

I’ve been super excited about my idea for a five-color Commander deck that made best use of Maze’s End. So I set out to make it, and have come very close to succeeding in my endeavor.

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Provident Planning

Between the five limited events I entered, the several two-person cube drafts, and a bonkers session of “shop for foils,” Jess Stirba had a great time at GP Providence.

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Modern Masters and Pauper Cube: Friend or Foe?

A lot of people are psyched about Modern Masters. For the most part I am not one of those people. […]

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Closed Meta

Whenever Dana and I want to go to bed mad at each other we pull out our Commander decks and […]

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Top 12 Pauper Cube Inclusions From Dragon’s Maze

Dragon’s Maze was in many ways the last possible opportunity for Wizards to round out the multi-color offerings for Pauper […]

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Combat Commanders

My first big EDH deck was built around what I like to call a “combat commander.” These are generals who […]

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Magical Christmas Land

Conley Woods coined the term Magical Christmas Land to refer to a deck he was playing that could do something […]

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I Beat Tajic

This is a prerelease story. I signed up for Golgari going into it. This was half preference and half strategy: […]

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A-Mazing Possibilities, Part Two

The pre-release weekend has come and gone, and now that I’ve had some time to actually play with the cards […]