My Last Stand in Standard

 This past weekend was the Twenty Sided Store’s Players’ Championship.  You have already likely heard about this from Matt, and […]

Human Shapeshifters and the 20SS Store Championship

The night before the Twenty Sided Store Inaugural Seasonal Championship it’s hard for me to sleep. I wake a few […]

Midrange with a Chance of Reanimator

Brian Kibler tells us that state of the Meta is healthy. Our opinions differ slightly, Mr. Kibler. It’s neither healthy […]

Gatecrash, Spoiler Season, and Playability (Jan. 21)

Hello reader! What We Learned is a weekly feature here at Hipsters of the Coast. The goal is to take […]

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The Social Cost of Combo

Combo has a place in the Commander meta. Many games will drag on forever, and it’s not a terrible thing […]

Don’t Daze Me, Bro!—Dylan Hiester on GP Denver (Part One)

Please excuse me, everyone. My name is Dylan and I’m sorry that this post is so much later than it […]

Modern Value Burn

Contrary to what Matt would have you believe, I actually quite dislike playing control decks. I play Islands, sure, but […]

Smashing Face With Gruul in Return to Ravnica

Going into this draft—the second in our series of drafting the Gatecrash guilds in Return to Ravnica—I was thinking let’s […]

State of the Meta—Season of Change

(State of the Meta is a litmus test and commentary on the relative health, stability and from time to time […]

An Interview With RK Post

Sometime between rounds of the main event at GP Atlantic City, I’m sitting at a table chowing down on some […]

Atlantic City Postmortem

I didn’t do so well this weekend. I made some changes to my deck at the last minute, went into […]