So there I was – tens of hours spent playtesting, ones of hours discussing matchups, and more time than you would expect working out how to get all my luggage onto the plane – I walked into the cool Canberra air at 2 am in my kilt, suit bag full of electronics slung over my shoulders and 1.6 metres of… Read More »ACT: National 7 Point Highlander Championships 2024 | Deck Lists & Tournament Report
This Saturday 27th January, 7 Point Highlander committee founder Glenn Doyle will be welcoming players to the National Highlander Championship at CanCon 24: A tabletop game convention at Exhibition Park in Canberra (EPIC). At 150+ presale tickets already sold this event is slated to be history’s most attended 7ph event, with all players vying for not only thousands of dollars… Read More »Canberra is Set to Host History’s BIGGEST 7ph Event this Weekend
7 Point Highlander has held a great space in my heart for many years, having an excuse to travel interstate with friends and getting in those final reps before a Team Unified event at PoG has brought me so much joy. When everyone can come together for CanCon it is worth celebrating! For me, the passion grew from playing in… Read More »What’s Next for Competitive Highlander in Australia?
In this article, I analyse a macro-archetype that players tend to love or hate: Lock, also known as Prison. If you could lock your opponent out of the tennis court, then you could win at leisure (provided the umpire was on board!). You can sort of do this in Magic, locking your opponent out of the game.
When the ANZ Super Series was announced I was excited to be back in the competitive scene. The main event was sure to bring out our old adventurers, coaxed from their caves and hovels to partake in big room magic again. Half of the Canberra contingent was plugging away at Pioneer for the Last Chance Regional Qualifiers and the other… Read More »Tournament Report – 2nd Place at the ANZ Super Series 7PH Side Event
Bourbon and Coke is a UW Miracles-like control deck centred on Balance and Entreat the Angels that once had bourbon and coke spilled all over it. It started as a blue-white-red control deck around 2015, when I switched black for red to play Dack Fayden and Young Pyromancer. Earlier I had played blue-white-black control, porting the Vintage deck with which… Read More »Deck primer: UW Miracles (Bourbon and Coke) in 7 Point Highlander
Welcome to a deck primer on my Omnath Good Stuff midrange deck. The deck is part of the value midrange archetype in 7 Point Highlander, drawing on all colours bar black. The deck emerged March 2022, following the Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty points update, at which time I started iterating the list publicly while making drafting notes on Moxfield. I wanted to provide… Read More »Deck Primer: Omnath Good Stuff in 7 Point Highlander
Welcome to my Op-Ed on Tempo level-ups! In this opinion piece I’ll be providing some insights into the principles that I use when playing Tempo decks in Highlander, and letting you in on a shortlist of my favourite rules-of-thumb when combining my two favourite groups of friends: Spell Pierces and Tarmogoyfs. Although this article was published back in Feb 2022,… Read More »5 Lessons to Level Up Your Tempo Game in Highlander
Welcome to a deck primer on Abzan Midrange, also known as ‘Junk’ in 7 Point Highlander! Junk is a part of the Equipment-based midrange Archetype using Green Black White colours. Junk has been an enduring part of the meta due to its consistent success as well as its ability to adapt to a changing landscape. The decks generic ‘good stuff’… Read More »Deck Primer: Abzan (Junk) Midrange in 7 Point Highlander
Welcome to a deck primer on Grixis Oracle in 7 Point Highlander! In this article we will take a deep dive into the Thassa’s Oracle combo, which is a representative of the Combo/Control archetype Highlander. We’ll briefly look at the journey Oracle has taken through the format, and how to approach the deck in the post Modern Horizons 2 world. I have… Read More »Deck Primer: Grixis Oracle in 7 Point Highlander