In this edition:

  • Anniversary Week Issues
  • Arena Championship 4 This Weekend!
  • Alchemy: Eldraine Arrives October 10
  • Wilds of Eldraine Festivals Continue
    • October 2–6: Season of Growth Standard
    • October 6–10: Gift Bag Historic
  • Event Schedule
  • @[email protected]OP
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    1 year ago

    The Festival events were not really on my radar, but now that I’m looking at those alternate arts, I’m suddenly interested.

    The only Historic deck I have is Zombie Hunt, so, uh, not sure how good my chances are for that one…

    • @MysticKetchup
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      51 year ago

      If you have some Izzet lands then Izzet Wizards is an easy craft. Only need a playset of Soul-Scar Mage and Dreadhorde Arcanist plus 1-2 Flame of Anor for nonland rares, everything else is common or uncommon

        • @MysticKetchup
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          31 year ago

          Yeah that’s it! Though I’d run Soul-Scar over Delver if you have the wildcards because of how common Bowmasters is. The nice thing about Wizards is that none of them die to a single Bowmasters even if they do flash it in response to a cantrip.

          • @[email protected]OP
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            21 year ago

            Just wanted to circle back to say thanks for the tip, I did craft Izzet Wizards and only dropped one game (to a mill deck that had 3 [[Ruin Crab]]s by turn 2) on my way to getting the five wins. I made do with the lands I had but crafted the Soul-Scar Mages. Partway through I remembered that some of this weekend’s Arena Championship competitors were playing the same deck, and made some tweaks to get closer to their lists. Don’t know whether the decks I faced were supposed to be competitive, but I saw zero Bowmasters or One Rings so probably not.

            • @MysticKetchup
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              21 year ago

              Nice! Wizards is a very efficient deck for how cheap it is and the rares transfer over to other decks very well so it’s always what I recommend. But I’m also biased since I love blitz style decks so I’m glad it worked out for you too!

  • MikeM
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    41 year ago

    November 2–14: Historic All-Access, Basically No Bans!

    Yes please :P I can’t wait for this again. I didn’t play as much of it as I wanted so I’m glad it’s coming back so soon.

  • MikeM
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    31 year ago

    Arena Championship 4 October 7–8 Format: Historic and Wilds of Eldraine Draft (both Best-of-Three with sideboard)

    Also very excited about this. Hopefully the coverage of this event is good because I think it’s two pretty decent format choices.