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Gregoire Thibault - December 24, 2015

Tyrants of the Underdark – New AD&D Board Game

Tyrants of the Underdark – New AD&D Board Game Gale Force Nine Announces a New Board Game from the Creators of Lords of Waterdeep From the same game design team that brought you Lords of Waterdeep, Tyrants of the... Read More
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Samuel Carrier - October 27, 2015

Nissa’s Pilgrimage FNM January Promo

Nissa’s Pilgrimage FNM January Promo   Green Ramp players will be quite happy, as the best green acceleration of the standard format comes as the December FNM promo.  The fact Nissa’s Pilgrimage FNM promo can ramp possibly 3 forest for 3... Read More
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Bruce Gray - September 11, 2015

Casual Encounters- Reaction to Battle for Zendikar and Some Hidden Gem...

Reaction to Battle for Zendikar and Some Hidden Gems for Your Casual Night by Bruce Gray – Casual Encounters Hi folks.  We had a huge weekend at PAX.  I watched a good deal of the coverage and am firmly... Read More
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Bruce Gray - January 16, 2015

Fate Reforged Reviews: Top 10 cards for Standard

Fate Reforged Previews: Top 10 cards for Standard By Bruce Gray – Casual Encounters So, I’ve already gone and taken a look at Fate Reforged for Casual play…how about we explore a little Constructed play…namely Standard?  Let’s get right... Read More
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Bruce Gray - September 30, 2014

Deep Thoughts on…Khans of Tarkir Prerelease

Deep Thoughts on…Khans of Tarkir Prerelease  by Bruce Gray – Casual Encounters So, I’m back and all bleary eyed from my Khans of Tarkir prerelease experience.  Wow…what a time!  Let’s get out in front of this…I didn’t do very... Read More
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Eric Jeffrey Seltzer - September 29, 2014

Jeskai Tempo by Kevin Jones (1st at SCG Edison Standard Open on Sep 27...

Champion’s Deck Jeskai Tempo by Kevin Jones 1st at SCG Edison Standard Open on Sep 27th 2014 As we bid a fond farewell to RTR/THS Standard and all its mono-colored shenanigans we see how quickly everything becomes new again... Read More
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Three Kings Loot - September 24, 2014

Fatesealing Khans of Tarkir: Filtering Through Magic’s Future

Fatesealing Khans of Tarkir Filtering Through Magic’s Future By Bruce Gray and Daniel Clayton – The bag of loot                 There is no doubt what went through my mind and many others’ like me  when they heard about Magic... Read More
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Eric Jeffrey Seltzer - August 4, 2014

Mono-Blue Devotion by Collin Roundtree (1st at SCG Dallas Standard Ope...

Champion’s Deck Mono-Blue Devotion by Collin Rountree 1st Place at StarCityGames.com Standard Open on 8/2/2014 With what became an inevitable conclusion with a mirror match final Mono-Blue Devotion reared its ugly head again to take down the Open in Dallas this weekend. The... Read More
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Eric Jeffrey Seltzer - July 9, 2014

Champion’s Deck – Esper Control by Gerard Fabiano (1st at ...

Esper Control by Gerard Fabiano 1st Place at StarCityGames Standard Open on 7/5/2014 As we get ready for a little metagame shake-up from the upcoming release of Magic 2015 we finish up the lame duck Standard with a final tournament. This one continues... Read More
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Bruce Gray - July 6, 2014

Crack a pack MTG Theros with Bruce

Crack a pack MTG Theros by Bruce Gray -Casual Encounters   I have decided that I am going to try and put together a bit of new series here on Three Kings Loot called Crack a pack MTG with Bruce.  This... Read More
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Eric Jeffrey Seltzer - June 11, 2014

Champion’s Deck – Mono-Blue Devotion by Ross Merriam (1st ...

Mono-Blue Devotion Ross Merriam 1st Place at StarCityGames Standard Open on 6/7/2014 Something old, something Blue…or as they say “It’s back !!!”. Like a blast from the past a Mono-Blue Devotion deck was able to rise to the top and finally... Read More
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Bruce Gray - June 9, 2014

L’eggo my Aggro – Gruul aggro budget

L’eggo my Aggro by Bruce Gray -Casual Encounters I like to sit down and try my hand at brewing all sorts of formats.  Pauper, sure…I love it. Modern…of course (although I don’t think I’m all that good at it!). ... Read More