Friday, January 21st – One of the most influential deck designers in Magic history dissects his R/U/G deck to explain his colored mana rules of thumb, and how to make the constraints of your deck idea work for you!
Wednesday, January 19th – Mike Flores has been designing Magic decks since the beginning of time. Okay, maybe a little less. His years of experience culminate in this ultimate deckbuilding strategy – try it out!
Friday, January 14th – Michael Flores tests out his Mono-Cascade deck as seen in his Flores Friday column, mashing games against popular Extended archetypes like Faeries and 4CC. Cascade into Blightning every time? Don’t mind if I do!
Friday, January 14th – Standard? Boooring. Let’s brew some Extended decks! Join deckbuilding master Michael Flores and see what he’s been cascading into recently, and check out the accompanying videos!
Friday, January 7th – Earlier today, I tried to call Steve Sadin and Patrick Chapin, but neither one felt like picking up the phone. It’s not like they’d spent the last 2 months trying to get me to come back to StarCityGames.com or anything…
Friday, January 7th – Following his incredible return to StarCityGames.com, Mike Flores brings you three playtesting videos with his new U/W Mashup. Includes a special guest appearance from Bella Flores!
Thursday, December 23rd – Michael Flores is the authority on Magic theory and one of the game’s best deckbuilders. The Philosophy of Fire is 1 of the 3 fundamental aspects of Magic resource management and is key in understanding MTG.
Tuesday, December 14th – Some articles are so good that they should be required reading for Magic players, no matter what era. Mike Flores, Magic’s most influential writer and deckbuilder, has many such articles. This is one of his best.
Friday, August 22nd – The study of Economics, and how it relates to Magic, is something that’s been touched upon in countless articles down the years. Today’s Flores Friday sees Mike in inspired form, looking at the value inherent in certain strategies, and investigating the very nature of the battles we should be looking to fight, above the battles we are actually fighting.
Friday, August 15th – Red, Red, Red… it seems the color is omnipresent across a number of formats. Standard is awash with flame, and Demigod of Revenge is making a charge on the Block Constructed metagame. Today, Mike looks at Red in both Block and Standard, and shares his thoughts on the winning deck from Italian Nationals…
Friday, August 1st – While the battle for U.S. Nationals rages on, the PTQ crowd still search for the Holy Grail of Block Constructed: the deck that can take down the Fae. In this evocative article, Mike makes a claim for a new and exciting deck that may have the steel required…
Friday, July 18th – With Eventide knowledge now in the public domain, our attentions turn to the various Constructed formats. Today’s Flores Friday sees perennial deckbuilder Mike Flores share a number of interesting deck sketches that include some of the fresh goodies on offer. Standard, Block Constructed, Extended… whatever your Constructed poison, Mike has the ideas for you!
Friday, July 11th – Is it possible that this article actually contains Everything You Could Ever Want to Know About Eventide? Probably not! But it does review just about every officially spoiled card from the upcoming set. Includes free deck lists! Warning: Contains Spoilers.
Friday, July 4th – You read that right, folks… in the Faerie-heavy Block Constructed metagame, Mike Flores’s Little Kid Green/White deck took home a Blue Envelope! Sadly for Mike, the envelope in question wasn’t addressed to him, but the deck has earned its wings nonetheless. Today’s Flores Friday sees Mike update the build for future battles, and the PTQ-winning pilot weighs in with his thoughts on the metagame…
Friday, June 27th – The Lorwyn / Shadowmoor Block Constructed PTQ season is now in full swing, and Mike has settled on his Weapon of Choice: “Little Kid” Green/White. Today, he brings us his final build, and walks us through the thought processes behind the maindeck and sideboard configurations. Will it be enough to bring home the blue envelope?
