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Selesnya Bogles in Pioneer
There was a time a couple years ago when Modern was being terrorized by one of the worst decks known to humankind. A terrifying list, capable of killing extremely quickly,...
The Cat is Out of the Bag
We are days away from the follow up Banned and Restricted announcement. With the release of Aether Revolt and the most recent bannings, Wizards of the Coast announced a new...
An Early Tier List for Sun and Moon Standard
Our brand new Standard format created by the rotation seems to be wide open with many viable choices for League Cups and Philadelphia Regionals. Of course, even in diverse metas...
Top 10 Rotating Pokemon Cards
Hello everyone and welcome to my second article on Flipside Gaming. This weekend we got to see the 2017 World Championships and had some amazing games on stream! Unfortunately, I...
Trial and Error: Pokemon Worlds Testing
With 5-6 weeks of preparation for World’s 2018 format under my belt, I have built, tested, analyzed, and theorized over a dozen different decks. In this article I will be...
My Top 10 Cards From Celestial Storm and Ranking the GX's
I’d Like to preface my top 10 list by saying that I am looking at these cards from three perspectives: 1. In a vacuum/isolated as a singular card 2. In...
A Taste of a Poison Paradise: BLW-LST Expanded
The Expanded Format is very exciting right now due to Anaheim Regionals (Dec 15/16) and Dallas Regionals (Jan 19/20) being the first and second NA tournaments with Lost Thunder...
A Walk Through Standard’s B&R Announcements – Part 1: The Recent Past
(Disclaimer: I love Magic, have a lot of respect for Wizards R&D, and understand that building formats is a very tough job. The following contains some… er… playful jabs at...
Aggro, Mid-Range, Control… Wait, this isn’t Magic!
With Celestial Storm live on PTCGO and World Championships 2018 less than 3 weeks away, players are testing and creating a general idea of what the meta will look like....
A Beginner’s Guide to Magic: the Gathering Part II - Formats
(Part I can be found here) Welcome back! My name is Charlie, and in the two weeks since Part I, I not only crushed at GP Vegas (4-4, drop, baby,...