Deck For A Day: The Green Ghost
Could I make a qualifying deck based on my and my teammates’ understanding of IBC? In other words, could I make a GOOD deck? Dammit, I tried.
Deck For A Day: Gray Sligh
When most of you read the Apocalypse spoiler and immediately started working on W/B control, I liked the implications of a beatdown deck.
Apocalypse And Jar Jar Binks
I am already sick of Black Fires with Spiritmonger. I am already sick of Indian Summer. I am already sick of having no sideboard answers for my opponent’s bombs.
Deck For A Day: White Noise
Static Orb. You know you want to abuse it. But how do you do it? Let the doctor show you a mono-W deck that’s sure to please.
Decks Galore-y On Death Or Glory
I am absolutely convinced this card should be called”Life or Death.” Death I understand. But”Glory”? They just come back to life,
right?
More Decks From The Dark Side
I could be suggesting that I will provide decklists from a highly secret underground (and thus cool) place. But probably not.
Trigger Happy: Eight Paths To Innovative Decks
Virtually every deck I have ever played started from one of these paths. I want to share these with you in hopes that you can use them to make creative decks of your own.
Winning With The Little Guys
“Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have
wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness.”
Am I Killing Magic?
Jay only plays online. Jay buys no cards. Jay does not pay money to keep this site in business and is therefore killing us… Right?
Here There Be Dragons
How does one of the most prolific rogue deckbuilders on the ‘net create a deck for each legendary Dragon? And how do they fare?
Playtesting Diary: The Birth And Evolution Of Rage-Wood
INTRO: Howdy. Now the new Type 2 season is underway, and results from States are flooding in with a promise to define the elusive metagame. Yippee. To me,”metagame” can just as easily be translated into”now we have decks to copy on the web so we don’t have to struggle through developing our own.” Everybody break…
Dear Magic
Have you ever broken up with someone you knew you weren’t going to marry? Let’s say for argument’s sake that they didn’t do something horrible like sleep with your best friend. You just decided, after a lot of soul-searching, that it was time for the relationship to end. Ever done that? Let me tell you,…
Mmmmmmmmmana…Five Rules For Avoiding Mana-Screw
I’m starting to get truly excited about Regionals, even if I still don’t know when they’re occurring. In fact, all of Team Purple Pepper is more focused than I’ve ever seen them. Having the team has made us all better players and better deck-builders, and some of the craziness that’s being thrown around these days…
Card Spotlight: Complex Automaton
[shamelessly taking a page from Taylor’s last article…] Belbe frowned. The hulking automaton was certainly impressive in size, but its movements were a study in inefficiency. For every step of the metallic beast, it would creak, spin its torso, wind a tangle of gears and eventually let loose a blast of steam. Belbe found the…
Wood Is Go(o)d
I organized my first Magic tournament last Wednesday. Well,”organized” might be overstepping a little. I had contacted Ballpark Cards in San Francisco to see whether they still ran weekly Type 2 tournaments as their website said. The manager, Matthew Scott, told me that the website hadn’t been updated in literally years (“how did you find…