TagExtended

Okay, he didn’t win… But he did play pretty much the same deck as Pustulnik’s winning”Rock” build, and gives you some solid advice on how to play it.

Rizzo gets ahead of the arrogant and acne-ridden and reviews his own article before it can be reviewed elsewhere! Look out, kiddies! Using needlessly harsh language means everyone knows you’re TOUGH!

Can Life make it in the current metagame? Well, we know Trix hates it, so maybe it might…

I chose to name my deck Seattle Sligh after christening it a few other names that were, surprisingly even worse. I don’t know if hardcore analysts would catalogue it as Sligh or just plain burn, because it does run creatures; it just doesn’t run very many. It has loads of burn, so I suppose that…

It’s the finals. Kai Budde from Germany is up against Tomi Wallamies from Finland. I’m not enthralled by the games.

Peter redesigns David Zadok Stroud’s”Carpe Noctum” deck, defends net decks, and talks about how it did at the tourney. Wow, he can play for real and not just casual?

I had been waiting for this moment for a long time. , , and are banned. Finally. At long last, I will be able to sit opposite an opponent and not have the game end in three turns because he cast . I will be able to sit across from an opponent and think through…

Quick question: what do Trade-Survival, Trix, Pande-Burst, Counter-Sliver, Forbidian, and most of the Fruity Pebbles-spawned cereal variants have in common? . The aforementioned decks are considered among the best Extended decks currently in the format. The only non-rogue Extended decks that don’t run are the -fueled variants, Three-Deuce, Stompy, Secret Force and Sligh – and…

Man, do I have a headache. I’ve spent the last few days continuing my work on the Extended metagame. I’m not sure if my rogue stubbornness is wise, but I simply cannot find it in my heart to play blue. As you can imagine, that results in numerous situations where I exclaim to no one…

Ten Extended Decks to Beat: Trade-Survival A fairly new archetype, Trade-Survival dominated the Gateway Masters tournament, winning it for William "Baby Huey" Jensen. The deck depends upon getting out an early and using one or two copies of , to start the engine and pulling out the creatures it needs from the deck. is the…

Ten Extended Decks to Beat: Counter-Sliver Counter-Sliver is another relatively new Extended archetype, arising from the synergy found between the Slivers from Tempest block. The deck is a perfect example of the aggro-control deck: Play out a few threats, start beating down your opponent, and protect your assets with countermagic and spot removal. Chris Senhouse…

Do you hear them? Do you hear the cries? The hills are alive with the sound of Extended. Countless articles have been done already about the Extended metagame. I think I’ve read most of them, some of them more than once. I don’t LIKE Extended, because it’s staid. It’s predictable. The same archetypes perpetuate; it’s…

Ten Extended Decks to Beat #5: Sligh The Extended variant of Sligh can be traced back to the then-Standard legal Deadguy Red variant run by the "King of Beatdown," . The deck translated well to the Extended format, and was one of the few non-Academy decks that had a chance of winning when and were…

Ten Extended Decks to Beat #3: Trix Trix has an interesting ancestry, one that can be traced to the number of "cereal" nicknamed decks that it evolved from. First, there was Fruity Pebbles, the R/U/W/B deck that used the // engine to kill an opponent. Later, black was added to the deck to run ,…

Ten Extended Decks to Beat #1: Stompy Stompy’s rise to power arrived with the release of and the cheap and powerful and . Running an extremely low mana base and , the deck was packed with the undercosted and overpowered green creatures that could overrun an opponent (literally, since was usually the kill card) by…