It was morning. I found myself in a beautiful, Italian, mansion parlour, my eyes wandering around the unusual scenery. I sipped my coffee. Richard Garfield himself was enjoying breakfast only a few meters from our table. “Let’s try something I’ve been working on for a while”, said Martin Berlin, as…
Hello again, everyone. Goblins, Elves and Rebels are all very strong tribal decks in Premodern, but what if you’re looking for something a little more…spicy? This week we’re going to explore one of the most beloved creature types from the early days of Magic: Slivers! CounterSliver was actually one of…
Ban list update As I stated when I did the last ban list revision (unbanning on May 16) I’d do the next revision after the Swedish Nationals, and now that time has come. One should not generalize too much from any given tournament, especially before a clearer meta has been established,…
This time we have a guest post from Martin Sahlberg, the runner-up in the first Swedish Nationals in Premodern, played last weekend. (See my previous post for a meta breakdown and top 8 decks from this event.) Enjoy! / Martin Berlin Introduction I started playing in Stockholm, Sweden late ’94…
Good morning, everyone. I hope you brought your favorite milk variety, because this week we’re going to dive into a couple of classic breakfast cereal-named combo decks! Cocoa Pebbles was one of my favorite decks from old, pre-rotation Extended. Like all the Pebbles variants, it was based around the infinite…
Sunday the 17th of June was the date for the first ever Swedish Nationals in Premodern. The event took place in Stockholm and was organized by myself and hosted by Wak-Wak, who also organized the 93/94 tournament Ivory Cup on the day before. 18 players showed up to battle for the…
Hello everyone, Andy a.k.a. @mtgdojoera on Instagram here, and I’m very excited to be bringing you a weekly Premodern brew post here on the blog. I’m going to be sharing my deck ideas for this format, many of which will be largely untested and untuned, so please feel free to…
Ohoy! Welcome to the new blog section of premodernmagic.com! 🙂 If you’ve visited the website previously, you might have noticed that everything is new and shiny now, compared to last week. Our eminent web-wizard Mattias Berggren has been working day and night lately to re-build the website from scratch to…