This week we’ll be exploring the valuation of Darksteel cards in Limited before the topic becomes an anachronism. I’ll also be spewing forth the usual randomness you’ve all come to know and love and deliver some predictions for Grand Prix: DC.
Today, the story of why I am not afraid of Circle of Protection: Red, Silver Knight, Worship, Pulse of the Fields, or any other stupid White cards.
I’ve got a secret to share with you. It will get you qualified for Nationals at this year’s Regionals; it’ll get you in position to take the slot or the cash at your next PTQ. Yes, competitive Magic success can be yours for the taking, if you just listen to this one insight, this nugget of wisdom I’m willing to impart to you. Yes, it’s the Real Deal, the Magic Carpet ready to scoop you up and deposit you on the Gravy Train. If you want to Win And Win Big! then you better keep reading.
What’s the second-most played Scourge card in Type I? What’s the average casting cost breakdown for all Type I Top 8 decks in 2004? What does a 36-24-36 woman really look like? The answers to all this and more are just a click away!
Generally, in this format I think you want one Affinity deck, one deck with a lot of removal, and one deck with a lot of good creatures and Equipment. I like U/R affinity, G/W and B/r. I think that is ideal, although your cardpool will always dictate what you will play in the end.
Three Words: Competitive Wall Deck. Well, at least it was until Chris got his hands to it. Peep the carnage inside…
“The Deck” is possibly compared to Baldur’s Gate 2. It’s the legendary control deck against which newcomers are judged, but it’s undeniably showing its age. Control decks have streamlined a lot since the days they could just lean on Mana Draining into Braingeyser, but today’s most modern ones have cheaper, more specialized engines. Today’s Head to Head will look at one of the more popular and original control creations to come along: Landstill.
More from the wild and wacky world of Keeper vs. Landstill!
The deck I’m going to talk about plays Lightning Rift. This deck also plays Fireball, Starstorm, and Slice and Dice. It also plays crazy cards like Choking Tethers and… Cowardice. And in the right metagame, it just might be good!
I have a question. Last pack in a MMD draft I’m playing Black and Green. I open my Darksteel pack to find an Essence Drain, Echoing Courage, and Pristine Angel. Should I take the Pristine Angel in the goal to”hate draft” or take something else?
After careful analysis into what makes the top decks tick, I crafted a decklist that seemed to be strong against the format, generating decent-to-good matchups with all of the other top decks. Balancing the deck was by far the most difficult issue of the bunch, seeing as how having game against both Goblins and Affinity is difficult enough, but throw in Slide and other White-based control decks, and you really have an awful lot to prepare for when deckbuilding.
I suppose that the title requires a bit of explanation. A week before the usual unlimited-proxy tournament, I was heavily testing combo GAT (Gro-A-Tog), complete with Fastbond and Future Sight. Somewhere during this time, JP started talking about a U/G deck full of Type Two jank and posting ridiculous win records against Slaver. It was just stupid enough to test, and in the interest of writing a great article for you, the reader, I took what was essentially Odyssey Block Madness to a fully powered Type One event.
Is there a new deck out there that takes the best card from all the available sets and meshes them together?
All this talk of metagames, environmental details, and even the rogue deck articles I’ve done the past couple of weeks demanded that I lay out my actual Regionals experiences to see how my expectations of environments lined up with what I actually hit. I think the answers are surprising.
