AuthorAbe Sargent

For the past four weeks, I have been revisiting an old series of mine from over four and a half years ago. In that series, I broke down building a Five Color deck into five steps, although I continued with several articles after that. Although much of the strategy to building a large deck remains the same, the sheer number of cards and changes to the format over time warrant a new series. In homage to the old series, I am cutting and pasting the old article, and then deleting out the old examples.

Happy Thursday to you all! Welcome back to the next installment in the updated Building Your First Five series. This is the fourth entry in the series. The previous series took five articles to get the final decklist finished, and then there were several articles on the restricted list, showing how to upgrade a deck, and then an article on miscellany. I intend this series to go to five articles, like the original.

In last week’s article, I began the process of building a pair of 250 decks. In the first article we discussed how to start thinking about the deck you want to build. Last week we began building the deck by creating a skeleton. This week we are going to flesh out the skeleton.

Last week I rebooted an aging article series of mine called Building Your First Five. In that series, begun over four and a half years ago, I explained the path to building a Five Color deck. Through eventually nine articles and eight volumes, I investigated everything from ante to mulligans to building the best manabase you can. Today I will be continuing the same…

One of the first things I wrote for StarCityGames.com when I became a featured writer was a series entitled “Building Your First Five.” I went step by step over the processes to building your first Five Color deck. However, four and a half years is a long time in the Magic world. As such, I feel that it is time to revisit and redo the old series

Hello all, and welcome to another entry in that most casual of columns, here at the Kitchen Table! I am your host of all things happy. Today I intend to explore a few more complex strategies in multiplayer. There is a solid amount of multiplayer material on the Net, from strategy to formats to theory. Today I am going to give you some advanced theory.

Hello all, and welcome back to both my next Kitchen Table article – the next installment in the Compendium. Today I am going to tackle a fairly common format as has been mentioned in several writers’ articles, including a surge from MagictheGathering.com page all the way over here… Elder Dragon Highlander!

I’m not the biggest fan of “opinions articles.” I was not hired to talk about how Green got hosed, or how Mike Long does not even belong in the conversation for the Hall of Fame. Still, there are some issues out there that casual writers need to chime in about. Today I have several mini-rants in me. Instead of writing them up, and putting them at the front of each of my next several articles, I am going to just toss them all out here at once, and then we can move on. Everybody ready?

Bonjour mes amis! I am back this week with several Future Sight-themed decks. I want to help you get your collective deckbuilding juices a-flowing. Maybe I’ll spark an idea or two for my own deck collection as well!

Hello folks and welcome back to the longest running series in my column. This series reaches all the way back to Onslaught and has hit every Magic set since. In today’s article I am going to look at the cards from Future Sight and evaluate them in terms of Five Color.

Hello all, and welcome back to another in a series of articles where I take a look at a recently built – and fun – Five Color deck. I’ve done these articles on 250 decks like Snow and Spirits, and today I’m going to look at another theme deck that I recently built in the Five Color genre.

Do you like playing Limited but want a chance to play different formats? Are you tired of the same old Limited matches? Welcome to Casual Limited! Feel free to have a seat and relax, because we’ve been here all day and we’ve just got started.

One-seventy five! Hello folks, and welcome to the 175th anniversary of my happy column. If I had the gumption, I’d look up what the special word for 175th anniversary is. However, I’d rather write about Magic than spend five minutes researching a word I’ll never use again. Besides, I used “gumption” in a sentence… I don’t think it’ll get much better than that.

Today’s article investigates a format where you are required to play only those cards with a one-star rating, based on the most current Inquest magazine. I found this format on a website with several alternate formats listed, and it sounded like fun to try. I love alternate formats, as long as they are deckbuilding formats.

A while ago, I wrote one of my first articles on the topic of preconstructed decks. In that article, I stated that recent precons had really disappointed me, because they largely displayed bland deckbuilding skills. Sometimes they featured a keyword or mechanic that was relatively boring, and sometimes they did the same thing over and over again. Then Planar Chaos was printed and I found a good precon! Then I found another! And finally a third!