I have built decks for a number of multiplayer formats online. I usually play Two-Headed Giant, since the games are not overly long and because I don’t have any of the board sweepers or other cards to do well at bigger free for all games. Besides, Two-Head is fun. But how can you build a competitive deck when you don’t have a big online collection?
Situations come up in Magic where a sequence of events can repeat indefinitely. Whether this is the goal of the deck or something that just appeared in the game, it makes little sense for the game to simply stall on that account if it can be helped. The loop rules, as they exist, enforce this quite well but some explanation may be required for you to completely understand them.
I’m often reminded of the cinema classic Back to the Future: Part 2. In it Marty McFly gets a sports almanac from the future and is going to use it to accurately predict upcoming sporting events for personal gain. Dr. Emmit Brown – played magnificently by Sir Anthony Hopkins – tells Marty that it is wrong to know the future, and certainly wrong to use it for your personal ends. Well my friends, Dr. Brown was wrong. It is not wrong, and it’s very powerful.
What do Pyrostatic Pillar, the Talmud, and Omnisignificance have in common? What’s the funny looking thing on Nathan’s head? The answers to these questions and more can be found in the latest edition of Der Gangsta Rebbe.
Hello and welcome back to the daily series where we provide you with your daily injection of deck. Here we will build decks around concepts both old and new, borrowed and blue. Today we feature something both old and Blue.
Star City’s Ravnica Prerelease will be held on Saturday, September 24th and Sunday, September 25th in Richmond, Virginia. In addition to the Ravnica sealed deck flights, we will also be running a Ravnica Team Limited event, a Ravnica Sealed Two-Headed Giant Tournament, a Star City “Power Nine” Vintage tournament, and giving away one-hundred dual lands in our brand-new Star City “Duel for Duals” Legacy tournament!
Also inside: Find out how playing at the StarCityGames.com “Duel for Duals” Legacy tournament can help you donate towards the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
Teddy Card Game steps out from under whatever rock he’s been hiding under to present a review of Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids, a biographical look at Jon Finkel and some of his closest friends. Yes, it’s about one of the crowned kings of Magic, but does that mean you should spend your hard-earned money on it? Take a peek inside for the answer.
“If there is one idiot I will never pity, it’s the guy who complains about manascrew the round after playing while eating french fries.”
One of the best deck designers in Vintage turns his eye toward the burgeoning Legacy format and finds that this largely dismissed combo deck has more game than anyone thought.
What’s that you say? You want a 9th Edition draft walkthrough? Well today Pugg Fuggly is on the scene, serving up foamy mugs of core set walkthroughs for every customer, 9th Edition style!
Sean takes a look at the swirling mist of information that’s come out for Ravnica so far and attempts to determine some basic things about the set and how it will play out in Limited. This isn’t your normal premium fare, but it’s pretty interesting food for thought.
Forget Goblin Charbelcher. Once you cast that Yawgmoth’s Will, the rest is incidental. You want to win with Grim Monolith/Power Artifact? Be my guest. There’s one huge reason why the Gifts list that got second at Gen Con Champs is different, nay, better than the more popular “Meandeck Gifts” variant, and it has nothing to do with the fact that Volcanic Island counts as a Mountain.
Tune in to this very special edition of SCG Daily, where Pugg Fuggly asks questions like: “What’s it like to be a professional bartender?” and “Do you ever get tired of serving fat guys?”
Last time, I talked about the effect of Wizards’ new multiplayer rules on Two-Headed Giant. Wizards’ new multiplayer rules also define the Emperor format – and the new rules will also change that format, which is a good thing. As it is currently played, the format is about as enjoyable as battling a blazing manure pile on a hot summer day. Let me explain what decks are sucking all the fun out of the format, and why.
After the release of 9th Edition, a lot of people were wondering how much the loss of Plow Under hurts the Green monster deck. Well, certainly, without Plow Under anymore, Medium Green has lost its strong position in Standard, which spells good news for TNN. But the bad news is TNN now has lost four essential spells against those annoying Blue decks, which is a huge drawback. Is this deck still playable in the current environment, and if so, what does the decklist look like?
