Hope Eternal

The End Step—Excessively Skilled

I don’t think it’s too self-congratulatory to say that the HotC writers knocked their respective balls out of the park […]

GP Pittsburgh and the Bazaar of Fun

I wasn’t really expecting to do well at Grand Prix Pittsburgh. I love me some Gatecrash limited, but serious sealed […]

Try Things

I wish I had a tournament report to go with this post today, but due to factors outside of my […]

Kill Kevin Flynn

I am getting tired of playing against RG Tron. For this past Sunday’s Modern event at the Twenty Sided Store, […]

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Turn-One Kill

There’s a deck out there in the wilds of Modern with a theoretical turn-one kill. It’s not the most likely […]

Bad Matchups

Ugh. Just ugh. The Modern PTQ this past weekend was a huge disappointment for me, and I ended up dropping […]

Getting Serious

 All this month the Twenty Sided Store has been having modern events in light of the PTQ they’re hosting this […]

A Welcome Return to Modern

Now that the release chaos has largely died down, I got a chance to dip my toe back into the […]

Mono for Modern

It’s an exciting time to play Modern, isn’t it? New set, new bannings, new landscape. For what it’s worth, I […]

My Last Stand in Standard

 This past weekend was the Twenty Sided Store’s Players’ Championship.  You have already likely heard about this from Matt, and […]

Getting to Day Two at Grand Prix Atlantic City

Shockingly enough, Standard is not usually my “bag.”  I mean, the column is called “Hope Eternal,” not “Hope Constructed,” because […]