Lesson #5: Busta Durafto

Posted Fri - February 06, 2009 by JT Porter

Itâ€™s been a while, sorry, just busy. What actually pushed me to take time off my busy schedule and write again is the fact that apparently, some people actually learn from these pieces of random ramblings that we call articles. The proof? One of them beat me in the final match of one of my Conflux prerelease pods.

100 Limited Steps, Part 2

Posted Fri - November 21, 2008 by Ogie Jaro

To recap, I played through the first 50 events and got better along the way but found myself in a bad place just as I hit the halfway mark.

Lesson #4: Limited Basics, Sealed Deck

Posted Fri - October 17, 2008 by JT Porter

Learn sealed deck construction and strategies from JT Porter.

Lesson #3: Advanced Decision Making

Posted Fri - October 10, 2008 by JT Porter

Good decision making is a vital key in playing good Magic. We want to analyze every situation and make the best play possible. This is a very difficult task especially for beginners because of 2 main factors.

100 Limited Steps, Part 1

Posted Wed - October 08, 2008 by Ogie Jaro

People always come up to me and ask for limited advice or more specifically, how to get better at limited, and I always end up just giving them some random advice on how to draft the format. It's not that I don't want to share information or knowledge, it's just that I really don't have an idea how I got "better" in the first place.

Breaktime: Shards of Alara Limited

Posted Fri - October 03, 2008 by JT Porter

We will be taking a break this week from our regular lesson in order to prepare for the upcoming Shards of Alara limited season.

Lesson #2: Every Play is Made for a Reason

Posted Fri - September 26, 2008 by JT Porter

Having a game plan is something that is often overlooked by most players. Players tend to play the game as the cards come. As a result, they blindly play every card that they draw immediately and rely on topdecks to feed them the card that they need for any given situation. As we all know, relying on luck is not a very good plan, but why do we keep counting on it? How far do you think you would go if you do not need luck on your side? Sadly, we cannot eliminate the luck factor, but we can play in such a way that we would not need to depend on it so much.

Become a DCI Judge

Posted Mon - September 15, 2008 by Joel Bantiles

So you want to become a certified DCI Judge. Read on...

Lesson #1: Play to Win.

Posted Fri - September 12, 2008 by JT Porter

It has been quite a while since I wrote something here, and now I am back, thanks to Ogie Jaro. Yes, Ogie had some indirect influence in this article. I was reading his Filipino Field Journal and saw his disclaimer about it not being a strategy column but one for entertainment purposes only. After the bad beating that the Japanese handed to us last Grand Prix, I think that the country actually needs a strategy column for it to produce better players or at least to shed some light for those who have no time to practice anymore.