To answer your question, man o man I’m not nuts. I alluded to a change in public viewing habits, but now I’ll be more specific. The ratings drop can be attributed in part to factors like cord-cutting, streaming, and the growth of products like Red Zone. Yet even with that in mind, 17 of the Top 20 network programs…

Good thing this is “Kotaku” and not “Things That Tekton Cares About”.

What are your objections to the article? It seems like a fairly thoughtful analysis.

I pretty much only play Limited formats on MTGO now. I haven’t played much constructed since....oh....yikes...my last paper Standard deck was Reveillark combo (last digital was Cascade) and my last Extended (not even Modern at that point) deck was Ravager? Maybe... My heyday was with decks like Oath and Trix through…

Lantern control is the greatest deck in modern, it’s a combo deck where when you combo off, nothing happens. Everyone at my lgs hates me.

More of this!! As someone who has played MTG since 1994, I want waaaay more coverage here. I understand that it’s not strictly a video game (why Wizards hasn’t released an iOS/Android MTGO client is beyond me - they’d make even more of a killing...), but I’d love to see more articles like this on my favorite gaming…

My strategy to getting into Modern is just to not do so.

I built UR Storm before the format’s official ‘release’, and the bans of Ponder/Preordain/Rite of Flame hurt, but it wasn’t anything the deck couldn’t survive through. Seething Song’s ban a year later was a bit much, though, and I put that deck away and put…

Nope, he’s totally cool. I think I’ll send PP a few dollars myself.

This is just really charming and classy.

And people who have a problem with Planned Parenthood providing abortions and birth control can go fuck themselves.

As an ex-member of the magic community, This is certainly not something I would have expected from someone from the magic community. But it’s certainly something I welcome and hope to come to expect from the community as a whole.

This is totally in line with my experiences with Card games players. I played netrunner for a couple of years before life got in the way and 98% of the people I met, both in the netrunner scene and in other card games was just genuine good dudes and gals. This makes me glad.

Untapped U always leads to heartache! I hope to read more from you - have a great day

I like catching articles like this, because it scratches the itch while simultaneously reminding me why I’ve become super-ultra-casual about MTG. It’s tough to maintain an ecosystem as enormous as this without breaking the game, and while Wizards does a decent job maintaining things at the tournament level, these…

Mardu has a pretty poor matchup against Aerherworks Marvel (in both Temur and Bant colors) - we expect a decent amount of this at PT. Also when metagames get stagnant like this control usually feasts, some lists have been killing it in many colors. I think we’ll see a lot of blue cards in the top eight.

Hey Rafael, I appreciate you delving into the underpinning meta. Would you mind putting up images of the cards so we can see the actual interaction? I haven’t played Magic in ~20 years, but I’d love to see what the actual traits dictate

Something left on the cutting room floor was that, perhaps by getting rid of Pikachu, they could choose a Pokemon that wouldn't convey the idea the games are just for kids. Hell, we know that the players are all getting older. Some hardcore fans play for the depth and all. It does seem like they're slowly giving in to…