AuthorSheldon Menery

Tuesday, August 24th – The Armada Games EDH League returned this week. There were quick kills, interesting games, whiny and petulant players, swarms of Rats, and chaos all around.

Tuesday, August 17th – Iteration 6 of the Armada Games EDH League begins later this week, so before we get back into the play-by-play action, I’d like to talk about the dreaded Power Creep, how it impacts your group, and what you can do about it.

Tuesday, August 10th – It’s the time of the year that I get to exercise a Level 5 privilege: voting for the Hall of Fame. I’ll tell you who I voted for (and not) and why (and not), then give you a recap of my GenCon weekend.

Tuesday, August 3rd – The last week of the current iteration of the Armada Games EDH League came, and I left with a whimper. In my ongoing quest to do something different in the League, I played Phelddagrif for the first time in a long time.

Tuesday, July 27th – After a few weeks off from playing in the League due to travel commitments, I was back for Week 7, with some very important guests in tow, people that had an unintentional but significant impact on the EDH format…

Tuesday, July 20th – It’s been quite a while since I’ve listed the decks I play, so I thought it might be time (and a few voices in the forums have asked). They’ve morphed a little over the last six months or so, both due to new cards coming out and me liking to play with different things occasionally. While Rise of the Eldrazi hasn’t warped the format as Ken Nagle thought it might, it has certainly provided some material (and I’m sure an Emrakul discussion will ensue).

Tuesday, July 13th – I will confess a weakness for Jund colors. I’ve been playing Mythic Bant in Standard recently, and although I love the idea of attacking with 17/17 Baneslayers, I really love the savagery of BRG, so I hope you’ll understand why I keep going back to the Kresh and Karrthus wells. This week, it was Karrthus.

Tuesday, July 6th – I watched Italy play terribly on the morning of EDH League, so I was angry. It was really a letdown to see gli azzurri so dominated by such a lesser squad. The only deck to play angry is Kresh (okay, maybe Karrthus, but still, Kresh is much angrier). After playing a few casual games, I popped Altar of Dementia out of Karrthus and into Kresh for some serious shenanigan value…

Tuesday, June 29th – We see an EDH game as a group effort, and this is a mindset that I understand might be completely alien to otherwise competitive players. Our intention is to make things so that the primary goal isn’t ‘winning,’ as it’s traditionally defined, it’s ‘having a great time together.’ Again, I get the idea that “I came to win” is deeply engrained in the way we compete.

Tuesday, June 22nd – After the experimentation with Isperia deck, which I intend to go back to at some point, I just wanted to play “my way.” This, of course, involved getting into the Red Zone with Karrthus.

Tuesday, June 15th – They built it. I played it. And it made me feel dirty. Last week I listed the Isperia deck, and this week I took it to EDH League. I made a few changes, some out of necessity, some out of desire.

Tuesday, June 8th – I had previously mentioned that for the new iteration of the Armada Games EDH League that I wanted to build a deck with cards I hadn’t previously played or wasn’t currently playing. I started thinking about what I’d do, knowing that I’d have two weeks (the week of PT San Juan and the following) to cook up something before the League restarted. Then, just before I left for San Juan, fellow L5 Toby Elliott linked me to a thread on MTGSalvation where they a) called me a geezer and b) had decided to build a deck for me.

Tuesday, June 1st – I’ve often dreamed of an EDH Invitational. Maybe someday, we will even make it a reality. Until then, we’ll play it out in our heads. For an EDH Invitational, I would invite 16 players, and play in four pods of four, probably in some kind of round-robin fashion, giving everyone the opportunity to play with as many others as possible…

Tuesday, May 25th – As you’re reading this, I’m on a flight to San Juan for the Pro Tour, after having finished the final week of v.4 of the Armada Games EDH League, in which Emrakul makes a turn 4 appearance at Table 1. Read on…

Tuesday, May 18th – This week, I delivered on the promise of playing the Darigaaz-turned-Karrthus deck, and it was a smashing success. In stark contrast to the philosophy of Second Best which I espoused last week, I was a frontrunner for the entirety of the first game…