The tenth round, with just one match to go before the finals, saw a full table of twelve players. Normally we would split this into two tables of six, but with two late entries we went with one big table. The game went for the full two hours and in the end Jay N took..
There were eight players at the table this month, and Eddie C emerged the winner by the skin of his teeth. The game didn’t feel even but the scores were; out of eight players, six got one of more kills to add to their score. After his victory, Eddie C moves up to third on..
This was the special Earth Day round, with players restricted to mono-green and land cards in their decks. Anthony H emerged the winner at a 10-player table, getting two kills. David K managed three kills, Adrian R got two and Eddie C got one before stalling early with a very large Kavu Predator in play…
Born of the Gods is the second set in the Theros block (for a multiplayer review of Theros see here). This set mainly serves to complete the picture drawn by the first set in the block. For multiplayer fans that is actually a good thing. What you find with Born of the Gods is a..
There were exactly 12 players in the first round of the 2014 grand melee league. This means players were divided across two tables. The seeded nature of this round meant that the top players from 2013 were split across the two tables. On table one, last year’s ladder winner Anthony H got off to a..
Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver is one of two new planeswalker characters introduced in the Theros set. Ashiok is a blue/black planeswalker costing three mana to cast one of which must be blue and another black. Ashiok enters the battlefield with three loyalty counters and has three abilities. Any planeswalkers costing three mana deserves a second look…
The finals are almost upon us! One more qualifying round and we will be done! After today the prize pool stands at 71 packs. We had fourteen players this months, with things divided into two tables of seven. This worked out as one of the top 8 didn’t show today, so all the top 8..
This is the third version of Elspeth, the others being Elspeth, Knight-Errant and Elspeth Tirel. Elspeth Knight-Errant is one of the best planeswalkers for multiplayer (or duel, for that matter) making the card expensive to acquire. Elspeth, Sun’s Champion seems similar to Elspeth Knight-Errant. Elspeth, Sun’s Champion costs six mana to cast, two of which..
Theros is Magic: the Gathering’s latest set, and this one takes its inspoiration from classical Greek mythology. Gods, heroes and monsters all feature in this set. Multiplayer fans will find plenty to interest them in this set, and even tribal fans have a card or two to like. There are four new set mechanics in..
Also appearing in the Magic 2014 set is the fourth iteration of Garruk. This time sees the green planeswalker at his most expensive, as Garruk, Caller of Beasts requires six mana to cast, two of which must be green. He enters the battlefield with four loyalty counters and has three abilities. Six-mana planeswalkers need powerful..
