Hello! I hope you all had a fond week of happiness and joy since the last article. Today I am going to continue the theme I began last week when I discussed a Highlander Five-Color deck named The Essentials. The goal of The Essentials deck is to demonstrate the top cards in the format while also serving as an actual deck.
Today we are going to take a look at a large highlander, Five-Color deck entitled The Essentials. As a highlander deck, this contraption cannot have more than one of each card except for basic lands. As a Five-Color deck, it abides by all of the rules of that format, including use of the banned list and a requirement to have at least twenty cards of each color.
Hello, good people of Earth. I hope that this article finds you well, and that you are on the way to happiness. Today I want to explore a multiplayer format that we occasionally play at my place… a format called Secret Alliances.
A while ago I was brainstorming ideas for my column. When I was initially charged with writing this, I was told that all things casual were in my purview. Yay! I can write on tribal, five color, peasant, highlander, set reviews, multiplayer — anything I want! After creating a list of ideas for the column, I decided to ask the readers if you wanted to see anything, and gave a few ideas. One of those ideas was a regular deck doctor entry with a casual look to building good decks…
Abe takes us through the personalities that appear in Portal Three Kingdoms, and highlights a host of fine casual all-stars for your next multiplayer melee. Having trouble distinguishing your Zhang Liao from your Zhang Jiao, or your Lu Bei from your Lu Bu? Abe can help!
Good day all, and welcome to the column that explores all things casual: The Kitchen Table. I’m your host, Abe Sargent. Everybody has been talking about the fact that Wizards was seriously considering a new color for a set, and I have to tell you that I absolutely adore the idea. Do it! Now! But enough of this… let’s build some decks!
This past week I finished the construction of a deck I’ve been building for a while. I played it virtually all night at the multiplayer table, and it worked a lot better than I hoped. At first it looks like a pile of junk, but as you take a look under the hood, you find some really powerful card interactions. Plus, the deck plays differently in every game.
Bonjour mes amis! Welcome back to another installment of that series that explores all things casual. Today I am going to be looking at the new Planar Chaos set with an eye towards Five Color. During the next few weeks, you can expect to see tons of articles and discussion on the new set, including numerous set reviews. As such, I try to distinguish my set reviews from theirs.
Equinaut is one of my most enduring creations. I’ve written about it several times and received tons of positive feedback, so its time for that one final primer that will give you everything you need to know to play and build your own Equinaut.
Today I want to explore a few multiplayer dynamics, and maybe share a deck from our “new” group. I hope that you’ll enjoy this tale of a multiplayer group and how as it changed over time – the strategies that were successful also changed…
Last Friday we had eleven people at my place for Magic night. During the night there came a point in time when seven people were playing a large multiplayer game, and someone cast Standstill.
In multiplayer games, how many cards are as complex to deal with as Standstill?
I have a stack of bad… er… low value rares sitting here, and what I’ll do is grab one, then build a deck around it. I keep doing this until I have a normal sized article — typically four to six decks.
I grabbed my stack of rares from the bookshelf and I am ready to randomly select a bad rare. Without further ado, here we go…
I was recently reviewing a card for an article I have yet to write when I realized a powerful combination that it allowed in another area. I began to brainstorm a bunch of ways to win using that combo as the foundation. It was a lot of fun, and I realized that I had the beginnings of a new Silly Card Tricks article…
People often marvel at my ability to talk deeply and significantly about many topics. What I don’t tell them is that I’m an obsessor. I like to obsess about things. Something new will pop into my life, and for the next however long I’ll obsess about said thing, and research it and learn it inside and out… and then I drop it and move on.
I’m an obsessor.
I’d just finished my most recent entry in the Casual Metagame series, and was trying to brainstorm a cool idea for my next article. However, I didn’t really have any ideas. For a day, I wracked my head. On what should I write my next article? Then inspiration hit. Well, not really inspiration so much as a full-blown challenge. I read the following quote by The Ferrett in his article over at MagictheGathering.com…
