Yawgmoth’s Whimsy #28: Dumpster Diving for Decks
Behind the glimmering tower of the Multiplayer Hall of Fame in Minneskta, there lies a dumpster – filled with cards that never made it into multiplayer. Someone has to bring them back to life…

Behind the glimmering tower of the Multiplayer Hall of Fame in Minneskta, there lies a dumpster – filled with cards that never made it into multiplayer. Someone has to bring them back to life…
How do you swap out your duals and Moxen for other, cheaper cards? Well, you don’t. Not really. But Oscar takes kind of a stab at it.
Frog in a Blender is quick, but is too prone to manascrew. Classic R/G Beats is great, but lacks Torment’s excellent red. Can we combine the (Crunchy) Frog Peanut Butter with the chocolate beatdown?
All that’s left is to start the laborious process of building a sideboard and working out your sideboard strategy. Sooner or later, you get bored and want to play other decks. You’ve got Sideboard Sickness.
White may not be played in Type 2 anymore, but it still has some of the most amazing multiplayer cards.
Rizzo’s still on his mono-black kick – and doesn’t demand credit for it.
I’m tired of Hibernation. I don’t want to get shut down by a single enchantment. I don’t want beatdown and mirror-match roulette. What’s left?
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In which The Ferrett discovers that he is a broke, balding loser and attempts to regain his youth by paying a cyborg to plunge a spike through a delicate nerve cluster in his chest.
Many of you are undoubtedly fans of the writings of … But Mr. Rizzo’s was over a hundred pages long. I just finished reading it, and decided that I could perform a service for those of you with lives – those who simply don’t have enough time to read through his article. Included below is…
Red I’m surprised that a lot of people haven’t been giving as much love to Red as they have black. Sure, the set has tons of black cards – but just look at the great stuff red got! Reuseable burn, burn, more burn, decent creatures – and hey, it’s ! And then some more burn….
Plagiarize and Teferi’s Puzzlebox was too clunky… But it put me in mind of taking several classic combos and adding Faceless Butcher and Upheaval to them. Yow! Instakill!
Mana bases aren’t a flashy subject – but losing to mana screw isn’t, either. How can you improve your draw?
Creating decks is a very opinionated thing – and Will offers up seven decks that are having success in various places, but not smashing tournaments. Yet.
Daniel’s mad for Torment – and he goes crazy over blue’s new sifting card!