After trudging the 3.2-mile walk of the destitute to Grand Prix Las Vegas, your hero cut an X-2 swath through the field to make his second-ever day two.

Innovation is one of the most admired traits within the game of Magic. Whether the creation of a new archetype, the reworking of a known deck, or the successful use of a card that was overlooked by the community, there is something special about going against the grain and finding success.

Since the introduction of the Cube format, players have been creating and tweaking lists of their own. One of the most common—and controversial—ways that Cubes differ from one another is the inclusion of “power.”

“Hey evil feature match fear monster, why do you keep following me?” I asked. “Because you keep calling me,” it responded.

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.

Last week, I extolled one of my favorite cards in Modern Masters: Thundercloud Shaman. Yesterday, I tried something completely different and drafted storm.

(Continued from Part One.) We all headed to the Cashman Center early, again, for day one of the Grand Prix. […]

This week we talk about Butler’s proposal, the Top 100 list, and admire everyone’s favorite pyromancer.

Las Vegas—I’m sure by this time you’re totally sick of hearing about it. Either you went and it’s over, or […]

Hipsters of the Coast presents the top 100 players in the world.

“The only people I’ve ever heard of taking a long walk in Vegas are people without any money.”