Welcome back to your daily dosage of deck. I’m your host, Abe Sargent, and this week I’ve been randomly rolling cards from Magic’s past and then I am forced to write an article around each one. It seems simple enough, right?
Hello and welcome back to the next installment of Magic Taxonomy 201: The Casual Player’s Framework. I’m Professor Abe and today we’ll investigate the fourth Archetype of the Framework — Crazy Combo Man.
Battle Time came and went, and Magic’s bearded pro was nowhere to be seen. Today’s article is a brief one, outlining the reasons for the no-show…
So, Evan’s Red burn versus Billy’s maindeck Story Circle… no contest, surely? Today’s article deals with the Battle, plus some interesting thoughts on Time Spiral… all supplied in both text and video format. For those that care about such things: beware the spoilers.
Jeroen has an enviable record at Dutch Nationals. However, this year saw a strong field in attendance, and an eventual Top 8 to die for. Mr Remie, on the back of a self-confessed poor year, turned up with a deck chosen on little more than a promise… and rocked the house. His report is full of interesting match data and deck strategy… and it’s only a click away!
Yesterday, the mighty Mr Card Game tackled some of the Standard metagame’s stronger contenders, discussing them in relation to the coming rotation. Today, he continues on his noble quest to dissect all things Standard in time for Champs, and peppers the reader with his usual brand of off-topic humor and anecdotal irreverence. All this, and cheesecake too!
Welcome back to the Wednesday Edition of All Things Deck here on SCG. This week I’m randomly selecting cards to build decks around. When I select a happy card with my trusty dice, I am then forced to build a deck around it, no matter how boring the card may be.
Ladies and gentleman, Dan Spero has done you a disservice. He has an unnatural obsession with U/G/W Threshold, and while it is a good deck, it is nowhere near the sex goddess he makes it out to be. Dan Spero would be more than willing to enter that deck into any tournament regardless of format.
Patrick “The Innovator” Chapin deserts his premium post to bring us an amusing article in which he chats with some of the great and good of the Magic elite. Warning – this article may cause you to snort milk out of your nose…
Blisterguy delivers his usual bout of Magic Online Premier Event data, alongside the prices in the MTGO Marketplace. He also recounts details of his recent throat infection, and adds a little blisterguy beefcake for the ladies…
Ted believes that the current Standard metagame is the true Golden Age. We are awash in a sea of playable decks and archetypes, and all manner of strategies are worth examination. Time Spiral approaches, and with it we wave goodbye to Kamigawa Block. Today, Mr Card Game takes a look at the stronger archetypes in the field. What suffers from the rotation? What benefits are gained? And what will make up the meta when Champs comes a’knockin?
After a barren spell in which your questions were thin on the ground, Jeroen now finds himself struggling to keep up. Today, he tackles thirty questions posed by a single reader! All manner of Magical topics are discussed, from Ravnica Block, to Coldsnap draft, to Time Spiral and beyond. As usual, send your queries to [email protected]… he may be swamped with inquiries, but he’s eager for more.
Volrath is mean and nasty. He personally sacrifices hidden creatures (in your hand) in order to pump himself up. He has nasty shapeshifters that are designed to look like the dead. His evil laboratories create new, twisted life. His Stronghold breathes new life into the unliving. Where in here is Volrath a gardener?
One of the recurring comments about Legacy is the non-viability of Combo or Control in this format, supposedly because of the dominance of Threshold or Goblins. Combo is indeed quite absent from the metagame, and Control is limited to weak board control decks which cannot do anything else other than crushing creatures (R/W Rift or Mono-White Control, for example) and are thus usually relegated as pure metagame decks. Oddly enough, the four decks I have been playing after Grand Prix: Lille with a good success are all either Combo or Control decks…
Josh embarks on an epic series examining the current decks in the Standard metagame, looking at what they’re set to lose in the next rotation. He shares some skeleton builds that could make up the metagame come Standard Champs; excellent preparation for those wanting an edge on their local field.
