Points Changes Effective as of the announcement (16/04/2023) (Please confirm with your tournament organisers that they are using the updated points) EXPLANATION: Highlander overall has seemed to find a more steady state after the major update earlier this year. Fast mana and initiative continues to be a powerful thing to be doing, but it’s also not clearly overperforming anymore. The… Read More »Points Announcement: March of the Machine
The format is reasonably stable at the moment, and there have been few big events with intermingled communities, so we’re only making a small set of changes for this release. In addition to this, the last points update was one of the larger ones we’ve done for some time. On top of these factors, if we’re bringing on a new committee member in the near future, it felt like we should involve them in any big pointing decisions.
Points announcements are usually made the Monday after each prerelease. However, due to CanCon 2020, a.k.a. ‘Highlander Nationals’ being only a week after prerelease, we made an early “no change” announcement for the ease of players preparing for that event. We know that a large points change can disrupt invested playtesting, so have reserved this Theros Beyond Death (II) announcement… Read More »Points Announcement: Theros Beyond Death (II)
Core Set 2020 July update Flash +1 (to 1) We’ve been watching Flash-Protean Hulk combo for a long time due to its power, speed and difficulty for opponents to interact with. It has recently proven itself with a large tournament win. Various 6cmc combinations for the Protean Hulk trigger have been innovated, making it more difficult to sideboard against. These… Read More »Points Announcement: Core Set 2020
-1 Flash from from 1 to 0-1 Muddle the Mixture from 1 to 0+1 Back to Basics from 0 to 1+1 Protean Hulk from 1 to 2+1 Time Vault from 3 to 4
-2 Flash from 3 to 1-1 Timetwister from 2 to 1-1 Dread Return from 1 to 0+1 Karakas from 0 to 1+1 Library of Alexandria from 1 to 2+1 Merchant Scroll from 0 to 1
-3 Protean Hulk from 4 to 1-1 Flash from 4 to 3-1 Crucible of Worlds from 2 to 1-1 Worldgorger Dragon from 3 to 2-1 Price of Progress from 1 to 0+1 Stoneforge Mystic from 0 to 1+1 Sylvan Tutor from 0 to 1+1 Worldly Tutor from 0 to 1+1 Muddle the Mixture from 0 to 1+1 Hermit Druid from… Read More »Points Update: February 2012