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Hello! With the new RCQ season being pioneer, I wanted to talk about and revisit my favorite deck, Lotus Field! Lotus Field has always been an important part of the metagame and with new additions from Karlov Manor, the deck is looking even stronger than it was before. Archdruid’s charm has changed the way the deck is constructed in a really big way. The card giving you more access to Lotus Field/Thespian's stage means you can trim down on Stage and play more Temple of Mystery and even the new s …

Hello and welcome to another installment of cards catching my eye for Legacy and/or Vintage from the latest set. I looked back at some previous articles and it seems like I’m at least identifying the right cards, even if my reasoning is a little off. I think everything here has some amount of potential, with a few that are almost locks to be making top 8s as soon as they’re legal. Let’s dive in!Aven InterrupterThree mana 2/2 Flash Flying is certainly not enough, but adding a taxing effect is int …

In my last article I wrote about my contribution to the All Star Sports X-mas Deck Exchange, in which I constructed Gishath, Sun’s Avatar. I broke down the concept of the deck and what it was designed to do in an add–on to the deck box so that the player receiving it would know the best way to pilot. From the sound of it, they had a blast and had intentions to keep it together.As in all of my articles, I will be writing about decks that I have recently constructed. In order to break the decks do …

Hello everyone Kyle G here again to talk pioneer and today I will be discussing one of my favorite pet decks in the format, Hulk Creativity. This deck has not been seen in the meta for quite a bit of time and with the rise of other decks being able to fight this strategy, the deck just slowly faded into the background. But with the printing of new cards in the past couple months this deck has gotten a few tools to work with that I'm excited to talk about!Now let's talk about the main strategy of …

Hello everyone, my name is Duy Vu from Swish Gaming. Welcome back to my series on Moving Up from Local Play. If you didn’t get a chance to read the first part, you can find it here - https://allstarsportsgr.com/mtg-blog/moving-up-from-local-play/In the first article, I talked about technical foundation, judges, metagame, and sideboard strategy. As I mentioned in the prior article, today we are going to tackle the topic of creating a playtest group. It lets us move from being a Johnny or Timmy in …