Pitt Imps Podcast – #53 – Oops We Messed Up
In this installment of the Pitt Imps we go over the GP in Sacramento as well as the SCG open in Columbus. Lvl 2 Judge Frank Tavern comes in to go over some of the interactions with the new set and mechanics. Will and Ryan had some personal issues so I have Buttercup on to full their...
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Serum Visions: Brewing Methods 101
Welcome back to Serum Visions, everyone! These last couple of weeks have been spoiler season for us. As far as Cube goes, it’s been fairly slow going. [card]Brimaz, King of Oreskos[/card] is a snap auto-include in a cube of any size. Sadly for the Puzzle Box, it’s a bit out of our price range. [card]Courser...
Brainstorm Brewery #84 – The Greatest Fool of All
We don’t mean to spend so much time talking about Reddit even though so much happened this week that we really feel like we have to. We’ve got spoilers, spoilers, spoilers! The gang talks about more than three cards, but I didn’t want to keep writing “spoilers”. Here’s another spoiler – you only have one...
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All Magic Has a Price #4 – The Big Winner at the Prerelease
True Cost: The lowest amount of real cash needed to acquire a card. All Magic Has a Price J. Graves Tampa, FL Let me know your thoughts at [email protected] Follow @jwgravesFL About AMHaP All Magic Has a Price focuses on Magic: The Gathering finance from the player’s point of view. AMHaP discusses the...
Size Matters
Magic specs are like steaks – the rarer the better. The fewer copies of a card on the market, the bigger payoff if a spec hits. Simple enough. Sometimes, though, the color of the expansion symbol doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about supply. Sometimes you have to consider other factors. A few...
Standard Commander: Return to Ravnica Analysis
This article is a continued exploration of what a Return to Ravnica/Gatecrash/Dragon’s Maze/M14/Theros Commander format might look like. Previous articles in this series covered basic deck design principles available in the format and what each of the mono-colored decks might contain. When [card]Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord[/card] was spoiled as a set preview in the Izzet...
A Defense of Star City Games
Hello, and welcome to my very first article here on Brainstorm Brewery. I’d like to start by thanking the staff here and especially Jason for pushing me to finish this article. It’s my goal to write articles that make you think critically about how you are currently conducting your business, and more importantly, to engage...
PucaPrimer, Part One
So you want to become a PucaTrader. The first and most obvious step in this process is simply registering with the site. Instead of assuming that you, the reader, has registered on a website at some point in the past, I’m going to be very patronizing and walk you through it. After you put “https://pucatrade.com/”...
Weekend of January 17-19 Review
This weekend I was fortunate enough to attend a Star City Invitational Qualifier event at a local game shop, Spanky’s Card Shop in Kansas City, Missouri. There were upward of 60 players in attendance and there was a fairly diverse meta-game represented despite the continued success of the mono-colored decks. One deck in particular put...
C(ube)+C(ommander) Magic Factory #1 – Power Hungry Review
Welcome to the first installment of C(ube)+C(ommander) Magic Factory, a series specific to these two popular casual formats. The focus of C+C will be on card selection, strategy, and budgeting. For the casual player, you will find lists, strategy, and a theme of optimizing on a budget. For the non-casual player or financier, this series...
Getting L.U.C.K.Y: Mixing Personal and Magic Finances
What do you do for a living that pays your bills? The answer to that is probably not Magic finance. If it is, great job, dude. For the rest of us out here, we have to work at something else to pay our bills. So make sure that you do that. One of the biggest...
Pitt Imps Podcast #52 – One Year In…
In this weeks episode of the Pitt Imps we announce a new sponsorship on our 1 year mark as well as some things that are coming down the pipe in the future. We don’t forget to talk a bunch of Modern and quickly go over the SCG event. There was also a ton of news...
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