You Lika The Juice? EDH Starter Kits, Part 2
Friday, September 3rd – The reception to last week’s allied-colored EDH Starter Kits last week was very positive – so this time, I’m presenting cheap starter kits for enemy-colored generals!
AuthorBennie Smith
Bennie Smith began playing Magic in 1994 and started writing about it shortly after. A Virginia State Champion, he enjoys few things better than winning at tournaments with home brews. Commander is one of those things. He loved the format so much he literally wrote the book on it: The Complete Commander.
You Lika The Juice? – EDH Starter Kits
Friday, August 27th – Recently an old Magic friend got in touch. He hadn’t played Magic in a long while, but just like the Mafia, you can never walk away from Magic: The Gathering forever. You can set it aside for a while, but eventually it calls you back.
You Lika The Juice? – How I Love/Hate Fauna Shaman
Friday, August 20th – Last week I got to play Standard for the first time in a month or so, with my first stab at a Fauna Shaman deck. I played a little EDH too, which gives me a little bit to talk about for everyone… so come on in!
You Lika The Juice? – Answers for Your EDH Problems
Friday, August 13th – A quote attributed to (or made famous by) David Price regarding Magic was “there are no wrong threats, only wrong answers.”
You Lika The Juice? – Feedback Week
Friday, August 6th – In the spirit of “feedback week” over on the mothership, I thought today would be a good time to open up the mailbox and share what my readers have been sending me. Before I do that though, I did want to spend some time addressing some forum comments I got last week concerning card availability and mythic rares, and a “question of the day” I sent out over Twitter.
You Lika The Juice? – Brainstorming M11 Standard
Friday, July 30th – If you’re a deckbuilder, new sets are always a good time to disconnect from the weekly (daily) metagame shifts in Standard and reboot your creative instincts by brainstorming new deck ideas. While most ideas don’t pan out, you never know what gold you might run across if you’re looking.
You Lika The Juice? – A Staff of Power in EDH
Friday, July 23rd – I’m sure I’m not the first person to think about throwing a Thornbite Staff into an EDH deck, but I can also say with certainty that I haven’t seen it across from me in any EDH game I’ve played. At the very least, the card is flying under the radar, so I thought it would be a perfect sneaky, innocuous card to build around and, if things come together, I’d do something spectacular and surprising.
You Lika The Juice? – The State of Green, M11 Edition
Friday, July 16th – It’s that time again, where we take a critical eye at the new Magic set and see how it impacts the color Green. I have to admit, Wizards has really done some great things for Green in the past few years, but we can’t forget that Green spent a long time as the undisputed worst color in Magic and there’s still need to have strong advocates for the color.
You Lika The Juice? – Carrots & Sticks & Purple Hippos
Friday, July 9th – Magic is a complex and dynamic game, which is why it’s thrived for so long, and it doesn’t appear to be stopping anytime soon. No matter how smart or clever you are, you can’t sit alone in a bubble and suss out all the implications for each card in a new set. Everyone brings their own bias and point of view when evaluating something new. You can learn something from just about anyone if you keep an open mind, which is why I read every set review I can get my hands on.
You Lika The Juice? – Initial Thoughts on M11
Friday, July 2nd – I realize the past few columns weren’t exactly the shiny, happy ones that I typically write, but you know what? It’s hard to keep my optimistic side down when there’s a new Magic set due out soon and we’re getting fed a bevy of fun and interesting spoilers! I’ll stress over Mythic issues later, for now I’m just going to daydream about what I could do with all these new cards!
You Lika The Juice? – EDH Miscellany
Friday, June 25th – There’s quite a bit of EDH stuff to talk about, so this week’s column is going to be a bit scattershot, and I hope you’ll bear with me. There are new EDH bannings, first thoughts on Archenemy, a reboot for my EDH decks, and more!
You Lika The Juice? – Stoopid Jace
Friday, June 18th – Jace has seriously warped the format; you either play Jace or play threats that Jace can’t really bounce for profit (haste, comes-into-play effects, Planeswalkers). Or, ideally, you stuff both into your deck. Even frickin’ Baneslayer Angel isn’t even all that good anymore unless you’re playing Jace yourself to trump your opponent’s Jace.
You Lika The Juice? – Scratching my EDH Itch with Commander
Friday, June 11th – Through a series of curveballs that life throws at you sometimes, I haven’t been able to make it up to Richmond Comix to play in any FNMs in quite a while. Which also means I haven’t been able to play in any EDH games afterwards. Which also means I’ve been dying to play some EDH, so I finally found some time to jump on Magic Online and reconnect with Commander, the MTGO version of Elder Dragon Highlander.
You Lika The Juice? – The Awesomeness of Cool Things
Friday, June 4th – Most Magic content on the web is dedicated to the awesomeness of winning Magic tournaments, and it’s an awesome feeling to be sure, even at the lower levels where I’ve chalked up my victories. Yet the coolest things about Magic are actually what happen around and outside of tournaments—the Magic Community, the connections you make with people you might not have ever had the chance to interact with if it wasn’t for this awesome game. I wanted to share some of those cool things today.
You Lika The Juice? – Revenge of the Green Mythics
Friday, May 28th – Time to fill in the big hole from last week’s recap of my day at the Virginia Nationals Qualifier—what deck I actually played. It’s quite interesting in retrospect that I waited a week to talk about it, considering the role two particular Green mythic rares played in my story, and in the current story of Standard writ large.