It’s the nine-mana elephant that’s lurking in the Standard room, but nobody has talked about it yet. That all changes today, where michaelj rams Tooth and Nail against the testing gauntlet so hard that it explodes into a shower of Red and Green spells. That’s right, we said Red AND Green. Why is it better to run two colors in your Tooth deck instead of just one? That is just one thing among many that Flores explains today.
Flores takes another look at White Weenie today, including testing one of the decks forum-goers touted as considerably better than Mike’s Weenie lists from last week. He also throws the Weenie variations against a testing gauntlet from the French Regionals results that are slowly trickling in. If you are playing Standard any time soon, this article is not to be missed.
Mike claims that the deck he discusses in this article just might be the best Constructed deck he’s ever designed. Okay fine, those who know Mike know that he says this sort of thing at least once a month, but what if he’s right?
There has been a lot of talk recently about White Weenie, but you haven’t lived until you’ve seen Flores tackle the little beast. Today Mike pits both a slow and a fast version of White Weenie up against the staple decks from Paris Regionals to see how they fare. Is Umezawa’s Jitte all it’s cracked up to be? Is an equipment toolbox supplemented by Steelshaper’s Gift the way to go? Is Hokori, Dust Drinker any good? The master knows…
Flores is on the warpath today and his target is none other than a certain Featured Writer on this very site. What made Mike so mad and what does he have to say about it? Check inside my friends, check inside.
Apparently some Internet writers don’t know the difference between interactive and non-interactive cards. Looks like it’s time for Professor Mike to teach another lesson.
Flores goes suicidal examining yet another creation from his new favorite Constructed deck designer!
This week Mike puts Sneak Attack to the test to see if it really is the sauciest goldfish deck in the environment. In addition, he also talks to some of the game’s best players to get their thoughts on the Extended format, the Limit of Skill, and playing threat decks vs. answer decks.
Today Mike takes a look at some of the more intriguing questions to come out of this Extended season. Will we ever see another format like this one? Is this the greatest Constructed format of all time? How in the world do you choose a deck when there are thirty viable decks out there and more being discovered all the time? Flores knows…
Mike explains his fascination with decks that bear the Dan Paskins Seal of Approval, and offers up a most teched out decklist of the most popular deck this Extended Season. People will be playing this decklist at your local qualifiers, so the only way to get a drop on the competition is to read this article.
This week michaelj puts on his fortune teller garb and peers into the future in an attempt to divine what the Standard format will look like come next Tuesday. In addition to showing you not one, but two new decks that may already have broken the upcoming Type Two season, he prognosticates on all the scenarios from the March 1st Banning announcement, and tells you just what each of them will mean to your upcoming Friday Nights, Regionals, and Nationals tournaments.
During 1999’s Extended PTQ season, a mistake by his teammate forced Michael Flores to ask the question “Who’s the Beatdown?” Six years later, another Extended format prompts him to re-examine the strategies he advocated in what may be the greatest single Magic article of all time. The Limit of Interactivity challenges Michael’s own conclusions, and, while it categorizes Extended decks into two distinct groups, this time they aren’t “beatdown” and “control.”
So much more than an article about under-represented Extended Goblins decks, Sculpting the Perfect Hand introduces the idea of breaking the rules of Standard Operating Procedure in order to reverse a locked board or break through from a nearly hopeless game position. Integrating the tools of strategic plan development over the course of a decision-ridden game, this article also synergizes the best elements of PT Columbus’s most innovative Goblin decks.
