![]() ![]() These days he still attends the occasional event but is more in the “buy a box to draft with friends” mode.Ĭredit: Wizards of the Coast FromTheShire’s Reviewĭouble Masters is a unique, interesting, and powerful draft set. Robert has also been playing Magic since the release of Legends in 1994 and has been in and out of tournament play since. Robert “TheChirurgeon” Jones is someone you may recognize from our Warhammer coverage. Thought he’d kicked the habit for good but was lesser pressured (they were in no way peers) into picking up Commander, and ended up with a variety of decks and now covers Commander and Arena and Magic in General. He’s not sure if he’s a writer with a Magic problem or a Magic player with a writing problem, but he’s excited to be here.ī “Pseudanonymous” Phillip York got into Magic with the release of Alpha, successfully trading a Mint/Near Mint alpha Black Lotus for 4 Giant Growths and 2 Craw Wurms (those were Alpha too, at least), has been in and out of Magic 3 times, gone through a number of full dual land sets, is a former level 2 judge and Wizards of the Coast Employee, and formerly “serious” but actually pretty serious because sponsored by a game store, competitive player. He developed a taste for competitive play while playing Pokémon TCG in middle school and Score’s Dragon Ball Z CCG in high school. Sean “Star Man” Matoon has been playing Magic since the release of Shards of Alara in 2008. Since then he’s amassed decks across Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, as well as a truly upsetting number of EDH decks. He tapered off around the end of the Weatherlight Saga in Apocalypse in 2001, before eventually returning to the the game for Theros in 2013. The Roundtable:ĭan “FromTheShire” Gates started playing Magic during Revised with a “charitable” donation from a friend who had no idea how much money he had just cost him in the long run. We’ll start with FromTheShire and TheChirurgeon’s more overview-style reviews, then dive deep on the set’s impacts on Commander and Modern and Pioneer with Pseudanonymous and Star Man. ![]() We have our full crew of Magic: the Gathering authors covering this one. With the full spoiler out now for Wizards of the Coast’s newest reprint set, Double Masters, we thought we’d take a look at the set as a whole and talk about its impact on constructed formats, including Commander, and how we feel about drafting it. ![]()
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