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This deck has a 90%-95% winning percentage in game one versus every deck in the field besides Wake. Do not adjust your screen: Let me repeat those figures. 90%-95%. The only way you lose game one is to mana screw or being caught off guard by something you just never expected, causing misplay.

Well, Geordie and his friend both aced the grinder trial the night before Grand Prix – Cleveland, finishing first and second. Geordie didn’t do as well as he would have liked, and a Frosty was all that lay between Kevin Phelan and Day 2. Read on!

Dave gives his tips on the current metagame – including some dead-on advice about what you currently need to play mono-black, including one card you’re just a durned fool if you don’t run it.

What we did was to lay out each deck that each of us were going to play, along with the sideboard, and work out the best way to sideboard for each matchup we expected. Two of our guys went 6-2, and we’re sharing that collective sideboarding wisdom for U/G Threshold with you.

If you want to track down the elusive internet writer, a species rarely seen outside of the nest (or,”basement”), you need to get the lowdown on the habits and appearance of said target. What will Geordie look like at GP: Cleveland?

You can’t get a chuckle out of ten paragraphs of me kissing Henry Stern’s butt and calling it perfume; that’s no rant. Readers want to live vicariously through your little R&D grouchfest. But you have to keep reality in mind, folks.

The picture of a man rolling a stone up a hill for eternity, only to have it keep rolling back down, is iconic. It strikes a chord with many readers, and this relatively minor Greek character has retained a place in many peoples’ minds.
And here is the Magic application: Do you feel like Sisyphus?

“Always choose rock – good ol’ Rock”

-Bart Simpson, shortly before getting wrecked.

What, one Rock isn’t enough for you? How about this amazing variety – the elusive triple Rock, Rock, Rock metagame! Nate offers some advice on how to deal with a format where the two big decks are, um, equal.

Mirri, Cat Warrior. Thriss, Nantuko Primus. Kamahl, Pit Fighter. Legends have long been a feature of Magic most revered by casual players and storyline aficionados the world over. Legends have mystique… But that mystique disappears when it comes to Constructed.

For those of you that haven’t been reading all the OBC news out there, Jordan piloted the following build to a win at Harrisburg two weeks ago. Yes, that would be a Solitary Confinement build. Yes, it did qualify somebody – and yes, I’ll give you a decklist.

I could stumble into the patent office, high on crack, and trip over a better idea than Stern Judge as a”hoser” for monoblack. What was R&D doing? I guess they were too busy grooming Benevolent Bodyguard to be the second coming of Savannah Lion, or taking rotating hits off of someone’s exhaust pipe, or something like that.

How does R&D refusal to treat three-mana as a green weenie affect the environment? What does red discard mean to red’s strength as a whole? Why did white, which got weak madness activators, get the weakest madness cards as well? An analysis of what R&D didn’t do… And thoughts on what they could have done.

After round six rounds of OBC on Day three of Worlds, nine players had achieved the amazing feat of a 6-0 record.. Which means that a lot of people will be trying to copy those decks. Let’s look at a few things you should look at before you pick up an”undefeated net deck,” including their opponent’s win/loss record and their matches.

“All I did was come in unannounced. It’s not my fault you procrastinate and refuse to playtest.”
“Procrastinate? Refuse to playtest? How dare you, sir! I’ll have you know I’ve been playing the same monogreen deck for nearly two months!”
“You are a liar and a cad, sir! I challenge you to produce a decklist that smashes black.”
“Gladly. Behold!”