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AuthorOscar Tan

Winner of the 2002 Writer War, Oscar lives in the Phillipines and is an aspiring law student.

You CAN Play Type I #37: The Control Player’s Bible, Part XVII: Head To Head With Sligh

You asked for it, you got it! Hot on the heels of Oscar’s control on control matchup, the Tanster fights everyone’s favorite cheap win generator… Innnn-troducing… In the left-hand corner… SLIGH!

You CAN Play Type I #36: Public Service Announcement

So InQuest posted their latest Killer Deck… But this time, it’s for Type One. And Oscar takes it real personal.

You CAN Play Type I #35: The Control Player’s Bible Part XVI – Why Control Sucks

Good Lord – after sixteen articles on The Deck and how to play it and what the sideboard is and the mana base and yadda yadda, NOW he tells us it sucks? Hey, thanks, pal.

You CAN Play Type I #34: The Control Player’s Bible, Part XV – The Budget 5-Color Mana Base

How do you swap out your duals and Moxen for other, cheaper cards? Well, you don’t. Not really. But Oscar takes kind of a stab at it.

You CAN Play Type I #33: The Control Player’s Bible, Part XIV – Building A 5-Color Mana Base

Mana bases aren’t a flashy subject – but losing to mana screw isn’t, either. How can you improve your draw?

You CAN Play Type I #32: The Control Player’s Bible, Part XIII – Rounding out “The Deck”

Including a”wacky” deck that you might just play for fun if you had a thousand dollars in cards, and comin’ up on the finish line with artifacts!

You CAN Play Type I #31: Tormented by Torment, Part II – Instants

Sweet relief at last, a card from Torment may actually make its way into The Deck!

You CAN Play Type I #30: Tormented by Torment, Part II – Enchantments and Sorceries

An extensive analysis of how you won’t be using any of Torment in Type One. But hey, at least Oscar tells you why! (Okay, there’s one. For Parfait. For the mirror match. Maybe.)

You CAN Play Type I #29: Tormented by Torment, Part I – Creatures!

Will any of Torment’s critters make it into the rarified air of Type One? Doubtful. And yet Oscar believes that one or two may be spongeworthy….

You CAN Play Type I #28: The Control Player’s Bible, Part XII – The Emeralds

“The Deck” doesn’t really use five colors. It uses a primary, a secondary, and two tertiary colors, and a couple of cards in the last color. Green just happens to be that off-color.

You CAN Play Type I Unless You’re Rizzo #27 The Control Player’s Bible Part XI, The Rubies

Last week, we talked about white as the”classic” tertiary color because it has a lot of staple silver bullets like Circle of Protection: Red. That leaves two colors, red and green.

You CAN Play Type I #26: The Control Player’s Bible, Part X – Join The Reader’s War!

CCGPrime’s Writer War is a joke. Thing is, it’s my name on that gag.

You CAN Play Type I #25: The Control Player’s Bible Part IX – Vote Smart, Vote Tan

In the glorious tradition of Sol Malka humor, I’d like to devote some space to convince you why you should vote Tan… Oh yeah, and strategy. Gotta put in some strategy.

You CAN Play Type I #24: The Control Player’s Bible, Part VIII

Oscar officially breaks Mowshowitz’s record for”Most words devoted to a single deck!” Film at eleven. Pretty good strategy now.

You CAN Play Type I #23: The Control Player’s Bible, Part VII

When should you play Ancestral Recall? What was the second-best use for Fact or Fiction In Type One? Oscar answers all of these and rejoices in some fan mail.