Tribal Thriftiness #91 – Zendikar Dollar Bin
Tuesday, November 24th – Now that Zendikar has been out for a while and the prices have stabilized, it’s time for Dave to see what he can scrounge up in the Zendikar Dollar Bin.
Tribal Thriftiness #90 – Domain in Spain
Tuesday, November 10th – Domain cards in Conflux. Harrow and basic land fetching in Zendikar. Dave digs through the card pool and puts the chocolate into the peanut butter, creating a new Domain Control deck for Standard.
Tribal Thriftiness #89 – The 8 Unified Construction EDH Challenge
Tuesday, November 3rd – Elder Dragon Highlander is a format that is both very popular, and very forgiving to players without large collections or large investment opportunities. But building one EDH deck is so passé… what about building eight?
Tribal Thriftiness #88 – Front Range Magic Team Challenge
Tuesday, October 27th – Dave got out and played some Magic this weekend, fighting alongside his team in the second Front Range Magic Team Challenge. What did he play? How far did his teammates to carry him?
Tribal Thriftiness #87 – Allied Powers
Tuesday, October 20th – The new Ally mechanic from Zendikar offers a number of possibilities to deckbuilders willing to put the effort in – and since they are mostly common and uncommon, they make a great place to start for cost-conscious players.
Tribal Thriftiness #86 – Mono Black Control
Tuesday, October 13th – Going in to this article, I knew I was going to have two choices. Two experiences from which to draw for this column. I knew I probably wouldn’t get a chance to look at the top decks from the StarCityGames.com $5000 Standard Open in Philadelphia so I was down to regaling you with one of my Magical experiences from this past weekend…
Tribal Thriftiness #85 – Zendikar’s Top Uncommons
Tuesday, October 6th – Dave continues his look through Zendikar, focusing on the powerful uncommons, and the large number of Black cards prompts a budget MBC decklist too…
Tribal Thriftiness #84 – Zendikar’s Top Commons
Tuesday, September 29th – Zendikar is finally here and is quite literally the talk on everyone’s lips. But beyond the Priceless Treasures, what other strong cards are sitting in the common slots? Dave pulls together his top choices
Tribal Thriftiness #83 – Rotate In, Rotate Out
Tuesday, September 15th – Every fall, with the inclusion of the new Big Set, some cards have to be sent off to the big Extended Pile in the sky. This week, Dave looks back a little on what will be leaving us in a couple of weeks, and then looks forward to some more new (and old) Zendikar cards.
Tribal Thriftiness #82 – Sparkly Vampires
Wednesday, September 9th – Dave’s wife keeps promising she’ll come back to Magic. With all these new vampires, could her fascination with fangs win out over her reluctance to come back to Magic?
Tribal Thriftiness #81 – Quick Bites
Tuesday, September 1st – Lots of little morsels means something for everyone in this week’s column, including Planechase, Exiled things, and new Zendikar vampire goodness. Yes, the “Bites†is another pun.
Tribal Thriftiness #80 – PTQ Denver and the Golden Fatties
Tuesday, August 25th – Dave headed up to Denver to play in a Standard PTQ, playing Green-White against a field full of Jund and Five-Color. How did he fare?
Tribal Thriftiness #79 – The Alara Reborn Dollar Rare Bin
Tuesday, August 18th – Even though M10 is the talk of the town, Dave still remembers that we just had an awesome all-gold set a couple of months back. Now that the prices have settled, what’s sitting in the Alara Reborn Dollar Rare Bin?
Tribal Thriftiness #78 – Warp World Amalgamation
Tuesday, August 4th – Looking for a good starting point to further develop the only true “budget” deck in the format, Dave applies Adrian Sullivan’s amalgamation technique to Chris Boomer’s Warp World Revolution deck.
Tribal Thriftiness #77 – Soldiering On
Tuesday, July 27th – This week, Dave waxes reminiscent of his past, remembering the fine military people that he met overseas.