Code of the Cardboard Samurai
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Frontier Archive Project Ep. 64 - Bridging the Gap From Standard
Before the most recent rotation last summer, people were actually enjoying standard. Nowadays, not so much. No matter the season, standard usually has the most active players of any format. The power level of standard has been creeping up lately, and we .
Frontier Archive Project Ep. 63.3 - War of the Spark Set Review (Part 2)
The multicolor cards of War of the Spark and our top 5 most impactful cards from the set in Frontier wraps up our 3 part series on one of the most powerful sets to ever enter the format. Did your top 5 WAR cards for Pioneer match ours? Listen to what we .
Frontier Archive Project Ep. 63.2 - War of the Spark Set Review (Part 1)
In our 2nd to last set review for Frontier, we talked about the main colors of War of the Spark and also discussed how the new and returning mechanics in the set would affect the format. It's a given that many of the planeswalkers will find their way int.
Code of the Cardboard Samurai 12: Pioneer Delight
Pioneer started off with a bang here in Japan and it's been the talk of the entire Magic the Gathering Community for the past few weeks. It was only natural that we'd do a podcast about it. In this episode Ben and I talk with our good friend Bobby Birmin.
Frontier Archive Project Ep. 62/63.1 - War of the Spark Planeswalker Review
War of the Spark made a huge impact on standard, and some of the cards even made their way into modern, legacy, and vintage. But did any make it into Frontier? In this episode we cover each of the planeswalkers spoiled in the set and talk about where it .
Frontier Archive Project Ep. 61 - Wishing for a Better Post Modern Format
Wizards of the Coast had played around with the idea of a new format between Modern and Standard for a very long time before finally pulling the trigger on Pioneer. As long time Frontier players we always knew that there would be a new format, but we nev.
Frontier Archive Project Ep. 60 - The Difficult Decks of Frontier
Are you one of those players who enjoys a challenge? Do you like solving tricky situations on the battlefield? Or would you consider yourself a straightforward, linear player that doesn't like to have to make a lot of decisions? In episode 60 we talked a.
Frontier Archive Project Ep. 59 - So Many Planeswalkers
When War of the Spark was announced, all we had to go on was a picture showing all of the planeswalkers on a stained glass window in Ravnica. The Magic world was full of speculation and we were not immune. Before knowing anything about the new planeswalk.
Frontier Archive Project Ep. 58 - Silver Bullet: Building your Sideboard in Frontier
Sideboarding is incredibly important in Magic the Gathering. If you're not prepared, a deck can catch you totally off guard and win the game without you being able to do anything about it. In episode 58 we go over all of the best sideboard cards in Front.
Frontier Archive Project Ep. 57 - Where we Went Wrong
We made a lot of claims over the months about how good card X and card Y were when we did our set reviews. But were we right? Did we sometimes get it wrong? In this episode we go over all of the picks from our past set reviews and talked about why some o.