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AuthorWill Rieffer

With a DCI membership number of 1743, Will has been involved with Magic from early on where he favored Black beatdown, 5 color decks, and of course the Upstairs Wednesday Night Grand Melee. After a hiatus filled with Blood Bowl and 40K, he returned to the game after being lured into this old passion by his son's interest in Pokemon. Another Magic dad, he is of course happily married to Tina with whom he shares 3 wonderful children, Liam, Silvey, and "The Big Guy" Declan. They all reside somewhere a tad north of the Ozarks...

Is There An I In Team?

I feel like I’m getting better, and I’d attribute that to several things that go together… Mainly, Team Binary.

Insulin Purse, or: “They Call Me Needles”

Despite reeling from diabetic shock, Will still manages to make the Top 8 with a custom-designed deck… And dang near gets a loss for trying to level his blood off.

A Short History of July

It’s sort of strategy, sort of not; discussions on bathroom breaks and game losses, and Cooked Goose – the new”fun” IBC blue-beater.

Bring The Noise: Variations On Jay’s “White Noise” Deck

Jay Moldenhauer-Salazar’s mono-white”White Noise” deck caused some consternation. What happens when we tinker with the colors?

Interview With Adrian Sullivan

“When your deck is different, people fail to understand the proper approach to take to win. If you’re not winning with your different deck, why play it?”

Angst

When you playtest, gather data, and even use databases to track deck matchups, how do you recover from going 3-3 at Regionals?

Force Of Will: Non-Allied Color Deck Ideas For Regionals

You work from a green base and go from there; now all your green base belong to Will.

Force of Will: Prophet On The Moon Of Endor

The big question looming is, how much does enchantment hate drop off in the new Extended environment?

Free Tech Is Like Free Beer

You’ll find precious little of either, especially if you value quality…

Examining The Theories Of Card Advantage And Quality

What is Card Advantage, and how do you use it to create decks? A history of theory, from The earliest Dojo days to last week.

Force of Will: Pork Byproducts

Pork, a.k.a.”the other White meat,” was a failure. But it brought up a few issues about the metagame, and cleared the way for next week’s article…

Force of Will: Pork

Why Pork? Because it’s the other white meat. This is the other white control deck.

Force of Will: Happy New Year

Some new decks, some ruminations on house buying, and the state of the industry.

PTQ/GPQ St Louis: A Tale of Two Tourneys

"It was the best of times. It was the worst of times." "Oh you’re ‘that’ guy." I was still at the Fantasy Shop hanging around trying to make some late trades and was talking about my day. My 0-5 day in extended with . Do you really want to hear a full match report on…

PTQ/GPQ St Louis: A Tale of Two Tourneys

Half tourney report, half discussion, Will discusses Force of Will. Not the column, the card.