I want you to be good at Magic, just like me. While I understand you can never be as fantastic at this game as I am, this week is all about helping you to achieve those dreams, if they involve being tremendously awesome at Magic, but still nowhere at ridiculously broken as me. Each day, a lesson will be imparted in which you will learn to break things. I am your Aesop, so prick up your ears, pay strict attention, and you shall be delivered.
Mr Rizzo hits fine form in this installment of SCG Daily. Today, he breaks the inner workings of Wizards of the Coast, not to mention the entire Magic community, wide open.
Fact: Wizards prints “Flip A Coin Cards,” or FACCs for short.
Consensus: No one likes the FACCin’ things.
Today I will break the art of deckbuilding wide open, just like Mike Flores, though I won’t be so egotistical… I’ll be worse. Let the ideas contained within be your guide to understanding…everything. Now that I have firmly ensconced myself in the upper echelon of advanced and highly-respected format-breaking Magic theorists, I thought it time to give something back to the little people.
John F. Rizzo. Every day this week. For free.
I want you to be good at Magic, just like me. While I understand you can never be as fantastic at this game as I am, this week is all about helping you to achieve those dreams, if they involve being tremendously awesome at Magic, but still nowhere at ridiculously broken as me. Each day, a lesson will be imparted in which you will learn to break things. I am your Aesop, so prick up your ears, pay strict attention, and you shall be delivered.
Part Legacy, part Standard, part Extended, part Limited. Part tournament report, part issues rant, part humor submission. Part travelog, part guide to parenting. All John F. Rizzo… putting the “yum!” back in “Premium.”
Take one Limited PTQ and combine with three parts well-lubed Rizzo. Add one Sealed Deck pool, two drafts, and a whole lotta love and you get the recipe for the other Jonny Magic’s latest concoction.
William Spaniel recently wrote about all things rogue, which is a subject both near and dear to my heart, not to mention a controversial lightning rod-type-thing in the community. Rarely can a subject so seemingly benign arouse either ardent support or complete fury. Today I’ll take a hard look at some of the benefits of being rogue and see where Spaniel and I disagree.
The creator of Extended’s hottest new deck takes but a moment to bask in the glory of his elevation from scrub to cool kid on the block before going right back to telling you exactly what is on his mind.
It’s been a slow week for non-Premium strategy articles, so we figured we’d give you the next best thing – a freebie John Rizzo article! If you’ve never read the man, now’s your time to start as he looks at his pet card for Extended and discusses how netdecks and Hollywood are all part of the same dang thing.
Johnny “hasn’t played Magic in five years” Rizzo takes his homebrew to the first Extended PTQ of the year. How does the man do when battling against the likes of Mouth and the legendary Go Anan? The answer is inside… somewhere.
The most controversial writer in Magic produces more of the same, except completely different stuff from yesterday in his quest to explain where he’s been, where he’s going, and how he came up with his latest Extended creation.
Rizzo chokes a horse with his page count in this mammoth undertaking, but it includes his thoughts on basically everything Magic, Sex, and the Internet. Oh yeah, and it’s got a heaping helping of roguetastic decklists for those who enjoyed that element of the other Jonny Magic and pictures are back too.
Tip Number Seven: Remember that you have an opponent.
Sounds nutty, but it’s true. And what that opponent can do to (or for) you is enormous. But not as enormous as those Burger King fat boy breakfast sandwiches. Saw one on a billboard and it was so terrifying that I hid my children.
How do you take 60 pages of text and summarize it in one pithy blurb?
John.
Friggin’.
Rizzo.
Parental Guidance is suggested.
