A Quick Review Of Regionals And A Peek At The Future
Featuring the 60-second tournament report and how Bennie’s Deedmonger deck fared!
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Weapons of Mass Distraction #113: Random Like the Die Roll
Regionals musings a la Larry King, some deck thoughts, and a new format to appease the casual players, too!
It’s Fof, Fof, Fof
We know Fact or Fiction is good – but does it belong in every deck? Let’s see if we can tweak the mana bases of several popular archetypes to have our cake and eat it too…
Double or Nothing: Regionals, Part 1
Unfortunately, he didn’t qualify… But a certain deck (which WASN’T ‘Tog or G/R Beats) got three slots of the Top 8. Wanna find out the results of a 109-man tourney? Jim reports.
Yawgmoth’s Whimsy #30: The Ten Most Overlooked Cards In Regionals, And Filler
Well, he almost won the PTQ for Nice, and gives his tourney report for an outdated format… But hey, don’t you want Type 2 strategy now? Of course you do.
Control Black: The Breakdown
I’ve been playtesting so much that I’m seeing Braids in my sleep… And she’s starting to look pretty darn good. Help me before I start making passes at Empress Galina!
Wacky Wednesdays Makes The Nationals, or: Why I Am One Lucky Judge!
It was Wednesday afternoon, my girlfriend was going away for the weekend, and I had no real plans yet. There was a qualifier for Dutch Nationals on Saturday – so I called Jaap to see if he was going. He would let me know Thursday, because he still had stuff to finish, he called and…
Yawgmoth’s Whimsy #29: Heaving Over Upheaval
Peter comes up with a G/W deck that could be competitive… But did blue REALLY need a reset button to bollix the metagame? A rant and an analysis of how decks will fail you.
Gemini, Beats, and Junk: Three Decks To Look At Before Regionals
While I won’t be playing in any Regionals events (I think they’re called Provincials around here, though) this year, I’ve still been building up decks for Standard simply because I have no idea what else to do. While I have no real belief that I’m some sort of expert deck builder, perhaps the results of…
Joshua X Presents: Braids And Beatings
It’s been a long time. Stuff has went down. I left my cozy little house, and entered the cold world to run a little Magic store in Leitchfield.
Double or Nothing: Countdown
I called up a friend in the middle of the night to ask him:””What has Torment brought us that makes ‘Tog worse than it was?” “Hi, Jim,” was his reply. I forgot that not everybody thinks about Magic all of the time.
Overmaster Sligh
Mike Flores forgot about Millikin Sligh – a deck that’s making a splash at foreign Regionals. Can Bennie find a way to make it more efficient?
King of the Compost Heap: New Black Control
Shortly after the prerelease, I did what most players probably did- I went home and built some black decks. A few were decent…. But most were pretty lousy. Annoyed, I tossed my Black creations in the dreaded”work-in-progress” box and spent my time testing other colors and color-combinations. Then work in my college classes kicked into…
Two Flavors of R/G Speed: The Regionals Breakdown
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?