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Double or Nothing: Sideboard Sickness

All that’s left is to start the laborious process of building a sideboard and working out your sideboard strategy. Sooner or later, you get bored and want to play other decks. You’ve got Sideboard Sickness.

Willie Nelson Is Full O’ Crap

Rizzo’s still on his mono-black kick – and doesn’t demand credit for it.

Operation Dropkick: Dr. Strangelove Returns?

I’m tired of Hibernation. I don’t want to get shut down by a single enchantment. I don’t want beatdown and mirror-match roulette. What’s left?

The Also-Rans: Other Decks Swarming About For Regionals

Creating decks is a very opinionated thing – and Will offers up seven decks that are having success in various places, but not smashing tournaments. Yet.

Coerced To Compose About Compulsion

Daniel’s mad for Torment – and he goes crazy over blue’s new sifting card!

Double or Nothing: Ban Tonsils!

Holed up with an inflamed throat, Jim recuperates by playing decks… A LOT of decks. And while he’s at it, he shares the deck massaging he’s done over the past two weeks.

Welcome To My Overcompensation – Pack A Lunch (Part One)

So Rizzo’s one-line articles are explained – and he turns in a HUNDRED-PAGE ARTICLE to make up for it. Does the editor have enough time to edit a hundred pages in a day? Hells no. At least Rizzo won two tourneys with this deck, though.

Yawgmoth’s Whimsy #26: Breaking Plagiarize

I built half-a-dozen decks trying to break this damn card wide open. It was a lot tougher than you might think.

Wild Madness: Trying Something New

Jay Schneider’s touting his new Wild Research/Plagiarization deck; now me, I’m not sure. Is it Tier One?

Don’t Let Them Tell You Compost Is Merely Okay, Jamoke

My teammate Disco-Dave figured he’d give it a go on Saturday, and managed 4-1-1 with it. I saw the single match loss, and I still can’t figure out how it happened. Then I’ve gone 15-4 with it. Wanna see?

A Day At The Old Bender House

How to get Kurt Hahn to help you out with a deck.

And So It Begins: Decks for Regionals

The more I test, the more I feel that decks that have good card drawing engines to get them to what they need may be the way to go for Regionals this year

How To Hate Psychatog

Traditional black removal can’t kill an Atog. Traditional black removal can’t kill an Enforcer. What can?

Yawgmoth’s Whimsy #24: Whitewash

Fair warning: I’m writing about a FNM tourney I didn’t even win, and about a deck I don’t recommend playing. Nevertheless, this may be worth the read.

Bear With Me: There’s Three Decks at the End

“If one color could do everything, there would be no reason to play anything else.” – Elaine Chase, Research & Development
Strangely enough, that seems to be true.