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We kick things off with the French clown prince of the Pro Tour, the funny, charming, and always amusing Olivier Ruel.

For the final installment of A Deck a Day, I decided to give myself a bit of a challenge. I have a box of junk rares…er…I mean low trade value rares. Today’s challenge is simple, I’ll reach into said box sight unseen and select a card at random. Whatever card I select will be the card that I’ll build today’s deck around. Sounds simple enough, right? Okay, today’s deck building challenge card is…

Something happened on Monday that you might have heard about. Lend me your ear for a few minutes today and I’ll discuss all of this, as openly and frankly as I can. There is a lot of misinformation out there perpetrated by people who are understandably hurt and frustrated, and I want to clear up as much as I can right now.

I will admit that the whole title here is somewhat of a ruse, as I feared you wouldn’t come along if I told you what we would be stalking. It is just as elusive and much more terrifying. I am not referring to that illustrious beast, the Wumpus. No, this creature is much more maniacal, insidious, and almost impossible to catch. If I manage to snag one of these beauties, it will be the pinnacle of my career. That beast I am talking about? It is the dreaded mistake.

Welcome to the penultimate article in our daily series. Today I am going to again use my own “Best Underused Cards” articles for inspiration for today’s decklist. We are going to harness the power of Wild Research in a R/U burn deck.

After this past Monday’s announcement, many members of the community contacted me privately, or posted publicly, with additional questions and concerns about our Premium service. I have spent the past few days reading every e-mail and every forum post, and will now attempt to respond to as many of your questions as I can.

One of my favorite decks of all time was this off kilter deck that I played during Invasion Type Two. It uses the “recently” printed Planeshift to great effect, as well as being a strong decks on its own. The printing of Apocalypse gave it some extra “oompf,” and it is in that form that I publish it below. I love this deck, especially how it plays in multiplayer. Let’s take a look…

This deck is simply built. You want to annoy your opponents by having a separate song for each card. You don’t expect to win the game, except maybe by annoying opponents enough that they concede. Each individual song deck is different, but here is how I’d build mine.

Welcome to week two of your daily deck dosage. I’m your host, the Deckmeista’ Abe. Do you like old cards? Today’s casual deck takes an old Fallen Empires theme and gives it a little twist. Let’s take a look at ye olde decke liste and see what is waiting for us.

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