MTG Strategist

This year I am working to expand the MTG Content Creators Awards from 11 to 18 awards. This fundraiser represents approximately half of the overall costs.  Your help is much appreciated. Click here to get to the GoFundMe page.

My good friend Chuckwagon MTG has been trading and hustling to raise money for a great charity.  Check out this auction and the fantastic cards that you could get. EBAY AUCTION

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With the introduction of the Commander 2019 precon decks, I feel like there is something different going on with Wizards of the Coast.  I have been playing EDH for about a year.  I am fairly new to the format, and I am not too proud to say that Brawl is the reason for my interest.  But after my Brawl summer fling, I was ready to settle down and get into a long term relationship with a more mature format.  Commander was there for me. So like all newbies, I began to sift through the mountain of precon decks that were available.  Some were interesting, but most were not particularly ready to play out of the box.  I would have to supplement each deck significantly, and in some cases, purchase up to 40 cards to make the deck function well.  Basically, it was a non-starter.  Standard Sets The Stage Then in 2018, WOTC came out with the Challenger Decks.  As a Standard player, I was pleasantly surprised at the out-of-the-box playability of the...

First and foremost, I would like to say thank you to all who participated in the inaugural MTGCCA ceremony.  It was the first of it's kind, so I'd like to take some time to illuminate the origin of the awards, their purpose, and some ideas for next year's. If you haven't seen this year's video it is here: https://youtu.be/KEUwpX-cpNM Origin A few years back I had a giveaway.  I hit 666 subscribers on this blog and wanted to say thanks by giving away a not so good Modern devils tribal deck.  It was like every other giveaway with one exception.  Instead of retweeting or subscribing to my channel, I asked people to find a new content creator, watch one of their videos and tweet it out with #WeAreMTG. I was not prepared for the thousands of entries.   You try counting every #WeAreMTG, making sure the attached video was an MTG content creator and that it wasn't tweeted by that person previously...  The spreadsheets were staggering.  ...

Here's the spoilers coming out of PAX EAST.  The new ability 'Amass' which can build you a zombie army from nothing is a cool idea.  I'll make some short comments, but I'm more interested in what you think. I think Emergence Zone has some interesting applications in Modern.   Flux Channeler....just looks like an absolute bomb. I think holding Ob Nixilis as an enchantment is probably good enough.  Ravnica at War is a fantastic removal spell, especially at 4 mana.  As EDH Academy correctly noted this does not exile lands. Affinity in Standard???  Game changer.  There are so many applications, I don't know where to start. I will dare to say that this Tibalt is better than the last Tibalt.  Mostly because it makes tokens and dies quietly without messing up your hand.

Just a general announcement: The MTG Content Creators Awards will be held April 3, 2019 at 5:00 PM EST. https://twitter.com/MTG_Strategist/status/1110918149203869696 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLOU59aoMTQ30HnTBoZv3iA?view_as=subscriber I hope to see you there! JJ