StarCityGames.com is proud to have one of the hottest deckbuilders around and best Magic writers in history give you the lowdown on every card in Ravnica. There’s Gold in them thar hills! A bounty of beautiful Gold cards this pretty hasn’t been seen since the days of IPA, but which ones will make the cut in Constructed decks? Mike Flores knows…
StarCityGames.com is proud to have one of the hottest deckbuilders around and best Magic writers in history give you the lowdown on every card in Ravnica. Today michaelj finishes the normal colored part of the review with the one he says is the clear winner in Ravnica: Green. We all know Birds of Paradise are great, but what other Green goodies does Ravnica have in store?
Generally I build decks to attack the extremes of the metagame. I hate building in a vaccum and try never to have brand! new! creative ideas for fear of being attached to them, or, even worse, lying to myself about how innovative and successful my brand! new! ideas are like some deck designers. Instead, I like to build, template, and tune decks that can overcome the decks that I plan to play against in whatever tournament is coming up, anticipating their best draws and key threats, playing with the right trumps to win a war over relevance and draw quality. Today we take a break from the ongoing set review, and instead you get a Mono-Red deck that tries to adhere to these principles.
StarCityGames.com is proud to have one of the hottest deckbuilders around and best Magic writers in history give you the lowdown on every card in Ravnica. Flores’s task today is to discover whether there are any goodies in Red besides Char and Hunted Dragon, and just how far you will have to sink in order to find playable one and two-drops for your aggro decks.
StarCityGames.com is proud to have one of the hottest deckbuilders around and best Magic writers in history give you the lowdown on every card in Ravnica. Today michaelj tackles the awesome power of Black, where some very saucy dishes are just waiting to be broken.
StarCityGames.com is proud to have one of the hottest deckbuilders around and best Magic writers in history give you the lowdown on every card in Ravnica. What goodies has Wizards left for us in the Blue cards? Flores hops in with both feet to find out whether or not there are treats lurking that lack guild stamps.
Our previous set reviewer may have ascended to the ivory towers of Wizards of the Coast, but in his place we have one of the hottest deckbuilders around and best Magic writers in history to give you the lowdown on every card in Ravnica. Today we start with the White cards, and rest assured – with this set it only gets better from there.
Last week, my newly acquired playtest partner Jeff Cunningham, a.k.a. ffej, wrote what was described by Randy Buehler, Grand Wizard Vizier of Magic: the Gathering as – and I quote specifically here – what “could be the best column [he] ha[s] ever read[,]” (emphasis mine). High praise indeed from the lord and master of hocus-pocus and prestidigitation; too high, in fact, to escape notice. Now I must say that your narrator, too, enjoyed ffej’s Time Walk into the ancient days and it jarred me almost bodily into historic reverie. However, instead of telling untold stories as Jeff is doing, I shall highlight some of the greatest stories ever told for the eggs and chicks in the audience.
I played in my first ever Legacy tournament this past Saturday at Alex Shartsman’s Kings Games in Brooklyn, New York.
There was a Grand Prix Trial for Philadelphia there, so Alex’s store attracted a lot of non-regulars. The turnout was decent for a Grand Prix Trial not at a major event, with attendees including U.S. Nationals Top 8 competitor Chris Manning, Sped legend Jamie Parke, and Meddling Mage Chris Pikula. What deck did I play? Why something of my own design, of course. Who netdecks?
“If there is one idiot I will never pity, it’s the guy who complains about manascrew the round after playing while eating french fries.”
“Look over the past ten years of Pro Tours, and you will see mono green in the final 8 significantly less than any other mono color. Mono Green will be a very distant fifth.”
– Jamie Wakefield
“Let’s look at the history of Green decks on the Pro Tour in order to show the viability, and even the dominance, of straight Green over the past five years.”
– Mike Flores, who also adds a quick section on which decks win and lose from the September bannings.
It took him a while, but Flores finally figured out the best deck in Kamigawa Block Constructed and it’s not just another Gifts Ungiven rehash. What deck is it and how did he win a PTQ with it this weekend? Check inside to find out.
What secrets does the master hold for today’s article? The answer lies within. Go on, you know you want it…
By now you have probably read the previous articles I’ve done on Kuroda-style Red and formed your own opinion – good or bad – on the deck that can be swayed neither by fact nor logic, certainly not the numbers. Today I’ll give you an updated decklist, a matchup guide, and explain how we tuned the second best deck in the format to beat pretty much everything else. Well, except the best deck…
The problem, of course, is that Sensei’s Divining Top
is in all of the best decks! It’s in the fake best
deck (Tooth and Nail), the second best deck
(Kuroda-style Red), and the actual best deck (UrzaTron
Blue). No matter how good the players designing these
decks, they all put the terrible Top in to make sure
they don’t tap their mana efficiently so as to gain to
much of an advantage over their fellows. As near as I
can tell, the difference between horrible Tooth and
Nail and the actually good and successful decks is the
ability to get rid of the useless Sensei’s Divining
Top so that you no longer have to look at it.
