The Road Through 2024 continues for TheChirurgeon as he preps for Tampa, then audibles to hobby progress on his Night Lords and helping his son build a display board.

Welcome to Competitive Innovations, our weekly feature for a number of game lines across the tabletop wargame space. Each week our experts canvass the top tournaments and grand opens for their game of specialty and bring you what teams are hot, what teams are not, who’s rising, who’s falling, and what might be coming next as the meta evolves year-round. It's our first CI after the Fall Battlescroll and so we're finally going to see how things shake out. Was it the total overhaul we hoped for? Eh...not so much,...

If you're familiar at all with Commander, you'll have heard a lot of talk about Ramp. If you're newer to the game: Ramping is the term for spending your mana on sources of additional mana to use on later turns. Think of it like an investment; spend more mana now to have access to more later. Due to the nature of Commander being a multiplayer format where players have high starting life totals, raw aggression isn't as potent as it is in a 1v1 format, so the early turn are best used setting up your board and hand to...

The Road Through 2024 continues for TheChirurgeon as he preps for Tampa, then audibles to hobby progress on his Night Lords and helping his son build a display board.

If you're familiar at all with Commander, you'll have heard a lot of talk about Ramp. If you're newer to the game: Ramping is the term for spending your mana on sources of additional mana to use on later turns. Think of it like an investment; spend more mana now to have access to more later. Due to the nature of Commander being a multiplayer format where players have high starting life totals, raw aggression isn't as potent as it is in a 1v1 format, so the early turn are best used setting up your board and hand to...