Michael Jackson’s Old Nose is a deck that I have played a lot since States, and I feel that it is fully Tier 1 in the environment. However, it is also more difficult to play than I originally anticipated, as the environment and the deck have evolved a bit since OBC season. Also, Ted’s wife takes a stab at writing, and the usual array of links to pics of hot chicks!
I’m not gonna be subtle today. I was gonna hold back on this one, saving it for when I really wanted to get even with an aggressive multiplayer group – but to heck with it. I’m gonna share it with you. Warn ’em, my conscience tells me. Warn these people about my deck…
I’m a bit gushy about the format, so you’ll forgive me if I say that I am completely impressed with how well Ons-Ons-Ons draft plays, particularly when it’s only the first set in the block. Instead of gushing [porn link deleted], what may help you out are three tidbits that I’ve learned over the last six weeks that turned me from a total scrub to someone who breaks even online with consistency. Also, I made some outrageous States predictions: How accurate was I? The answers may surprise you.
Welcome back to another installment of 18,000 words, in which I once again pay off the debt I owe society, word by word. This week, we’re looking at Christophe Lippert’s Fiends and Joachim Hoh’s White Weenie.
Word-O-Meter: 2500/11900 Words (21% Complete)
This article is provided as a time killer. For when you’re bored because you need to attend the visits of aunts and grand uncles that you’ve never even heard of. They call you by your brother’s name, because they do not know you either and they can only vaguely remember a set of names which they randomly try, hoping to match them all correctly at the first try. All I can do to pass the time is tell you about my Highlander deck….
For those of you who need a little Nate Heiss rogue spice in their life, I give you with a little Extended deck I have been working on that uses many of my favorite cards. It is a decent deck that I may run in a later PTQ, but I am always glad to share… ‘Tis the season, after all!
If there is one mistake that rookie deckbuilders make on a regular basis, it’s trying to include as many cards on the restricted list as possible in their decks. This might not be a bad idea if cards were placed there solely because they were so overwhelmingly powerful that every deck should play them…. But the problem is that decks were built around these cards. Your deck isn’t that deck.
There are a number of cards in Onslaught Limited that I do not believe are getting the proper appreciation – so I’ve created a list of them, and I’ll also delve into the reasons why I think they’re going unappreciated. These are cards that are going really late in the draft, or just not seeing the amount of play that they should be – but in one way or another, I feel they are definitely underrated.
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While some people may have the brightest yard decorations in the neighborhood (requiring the police to stop by and make them shut down every night at 10 p.m. or risk a fine) and others make 132 dozen cookies, I get to write about a Magic deck that is inspired by Christmas carols and Christmas folklore. Yep – my annual Magic deck based on Christmas carols. And I always make sure that it’s Standard-legal. Merry Christmas!
I have, lately, been watching some of the internet conversations that have been going on – and came up with a few new ideas. The following topics, in my opinion, are of a highly urgent nature, and not surrounded with enough speculation.
A word of caution: Playing this deck will require the use of very large numbers of counters, both for your creatures and for all tapped permanents. People will hate it, unless you provide something like peanut M&M’s. Or quarters. People really like quarters.
Writing about a tournament where you win or nearly win is easy. Each game is a triumphant record of card choices, each match a tribute to your playing and deck building skill. Writing about a tourney where you come twelfth of sixteen is a hell of a lot more difficult. I’ll give it a go, though, as I know some of you out there want to know how three rounds of Standard, three rounds of Peasant Magic and a knockout 5-Color magic tournament works out.
Spitting Gourna
What am I supposed to write here? Okay, five mana, 3/4, blocks flying creatures! It’s like creativity has me inspired me so far as to poop in my mouth! Remember that if you can’t pay GG, you can play G through the morph cost to flip it over! And you can surprise your opponent’s fliers by morphing it during combat!
Morph creatures… surprising people? That’s never happened before! I swear! It wasn’t the theme of the whole freaking set, now was it?
2002 was possibly the most eventful year in recent Type I history, and everything that people expected to happen in 2001 instead happened in 2002. How did it change the Vintage scene… And, of course, The Deck?
