Flow of Ideas – A New Combo Deck for Standard: Brain Drain
Monday, October 25th – Check out the new combo deck with Runeflare Trap and Molten Psyche! Bring it out to this weekend’s StarCityGames.com Standard Open in Charlotte.
Flow of Ideas – Topical Blend #1: The Day Magic Died
Tuesday, October 19th – By now, I’m sure you’ve all heard the news. It’s been a crazy few days. But for all intents and purposes, Magic as we know it is dead.
I can’t help but wonder, “Where did we go so wrong?â€
Flow of Ideas – Finding Ways to Fix Your Draws
Monday, October 11th – Gavin Verhey begins his article with a deceptively simple question, “What do most of the best mechanics ever have in common?” Read about what cards you should be playing in your Scars of Mirrodin Limited decks!
Flow of Ideas – The New Face of Fauna Shaman: Darkvine
Monday, October 4th – Last week, I offered up three new decks. However, if the 2010’s were tomorrow, this is the deck I’d play. Not quite the usual cards you’d expect to see paired together with Lotus Cobra and Fauna Shaman, now, are they?
Flow of Ideas – Three (and a Half) New Standard Decks
Friday, October 1st – I have three and a half decklists in this article that I’ve been testing over the past five days. They’re not perfectly refined, but they’ve been performing well enough I feel confident putting them into your hands.
Flow Of Ideas – How Will You Win With THAT In Your Deck?
Monday, September 20th – Look at your Sealed deck, now back to me, now back to your Sealed deck, now back to me. Sadly, that deck isn’t going to win this PTQ — but if you had figured out how to build that Sealed pool correctly, it could have.
Flow of Ideas – Breaking Contracts For Fun and Profit
Monday, September 13th – Nassif, the man behind the deck that beat Amsterdam, looked at the social contract everybody seemed to have signed, and found a loophole. He broke the contract. Again.
Soul Sisters in the Twin Cities, Part 2 *25th*
Monday, September 6th – I fanned the pack out. And there it was. Staring back at me. The king of the draft table. The one card I wanted to see: Wild Griffin.
Flow of Ideas – Soul Sisters in the Twin Cities, Part 1 *25th*
Monday, August 30th – I would love to open this article with some regaled tale of playtesting, about how I cracked the format. Instead, I’m going to flash forward the day before Nationals and go from there.
Flow of Ideas – ABC: Always Be Clocking
Monday, August 23rd – How do you think more Limited games are won than any other? Creatures with evasion? Gaining the advantage over the course of a long, grinding game? Glare of Subdual? Nope.
Flow of Ideas – Integrity, History, and Controversy: My Hall of Fame Ballot
Monday, August 16th – Ever since the Hall’s creation, every year I have followed along, thinking about who I would vote for if I had the opportunity. I tumbled over ideas in my head like a child rolling down a grassy knoll. Ultimately, I never came to a final ballot.
Flow of Ideas – Embracing Innovation
Monday, August 9th – After a few weeks of cracking hard into Extended for no good reason other than, well, Extended is just fun to play, the past week has been a swan dive back into Standard. Now that the baseline decks are in line and constantly being reshaped week to week by various National Championships, with less than two weeks left before the opening of U.S. Nationals I have turned my sights toward trying out new ideas.
Flow of Ideas – Rediscovering Reveillark
Monday, August 2nd – I have played with Reveillark since its pre-release debut, and worked on decks with the 4/3 flier at every opportunity. I’ve returned Eternal Witness with Reveillark before. I’ve cycled Complicate, Astral Sliding out Reveillark before. But, despite my best efforts, the most successful Reveillark decks no doubt end up in the traditional U/W shell – and for good reason.
Flow of Ideas – A (Slightly) Extended Look at Elves
Monday, July 26th – Though my hopes of going to Amsterdam have unfortunately been dashed like a semi-colon in an undergraduate essay, Extended is always a format I have always enjoyed. Eager to see what the new rotation would be like and to help my qualified friends playtest, I began work on a deck which has an incredible amount of potentiality and pseudo-survives the rotation: Elves.
Flow of Ideas – Evolving Jund for an M11 World
Monday, July 19th – M11 is a marvelously designed set and has a lot of new, exciting cards to play. Ever since the full spoiler was released, I’ve been busy having a tea party and getting to know good new friends I suspect will end up in a lot of my decks. Conundrum Sphinx, Destructive Force, and Mass Polymorph are all cards I have already built strategies around, each more promising than the last.