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Because I don't normally look for MTGO announcements, I didn't even catch this one yesterday. But now it's blowing up on a lot of websites. People have some, uh, strong opinions on this stuff... http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-online/1v1-commander-banned-list

I've been thinking that it might be a good idea to put some decks together for introducing people to Magic... If you haven't already seen them, every year WotC produces decks called variously "welcome decks," "sample decks," "demo packs," and probably some other things. These are simple...

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/hascon-and-kickoff-our-25th-anniversary-2017-04-20 Weird that they'd actually have a second Masters set this year. MM3 was great, but I'm already suspicious of this one... I am no fan of this relatively recent design philosophy that each of...

I recently saw a video that posed this question. I'll find the video again at some point. I gave it some thought and found restricting it to just five cards to be a bit challenging. There are so many that would be honorable mentions, or ones that I'd really want to include. If it was "top 100"...

With the upcoming release of Amonkhet and the new potential toys for cycling-based decks, I've had Fluctuator on my mind lately. I still have an old Fluctuator deck sitting in a box somewhere. The card has long been a favorite of mine. I hesitated to make a thread for this one. I mean, I...

I recently watched this amusing video deck tech for a Leovold Commander deck. The list there is pretty solid, although substantially different from the Leovold deck I'm working on myself. But the most glaring omission is Arcane Denial. I'd have pointed it out in the comment section, but a few...

As I've probably already mentioned far too many times by now, I actually first learned Magic through the original Portal set, which was an attempt at simplifying the game. It had no artifacts or enchantments, no nonbasic lands, and instead of having instants, there were certain cards with...

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/amonkhet-split-card-rules-changes-2017-04-04 He didn't mention the bizarre Brain in a Jar interaction with Fuse spells, but this rules change kills it. The change is kinda reminiscent of the Waylay nerf, but also very different in some key...

In junior high school, I went to the "model school for technology" for one of the largest school districts in the state of Washington, so that meant they were haphazardly throwing students into random, technology-themed classes in which we learned to use borderline-deprecated hardware and...

Having already started threads for Dark Ritual and Lake of the Dead, I assume that I've made my penchant for black mana acceleration clear by now. Bubbling Muck is a curious case. The card is all but forgotten, and lived in the shadow of the much more successful High Tide. Actually, I should...

For those sick of seeing these threads popping up and overtaking the decks board, this should be the last one. I know it's been a long time since Ankh Sligh existed as a competitive deck, but I'm pretty sure that everyone loves it. So of course, I had to build it in the old computer game...

I built this deck a few years after I'd built the others. I'd been playing some of my other decks and it dawned on me that the card pool had both Channel and Fireball, but I hadn't built a deck with them. I corrected that oversight. I didn't think that the cardpool supported a sufficiently...

Hahahahahahahahahaha. I actually had a few different stupid combo decks saved for the old computer game. I picked one from the saved decks folder at random to post here. The others are along a similar theme: try to win on the first turn (or after taking a bunch of Time Walk turns, but whatever)...

This might be my most original build out of the ones I made for the computer game. I have heard stories of people using Power Surge + Candelabra of Tawnos. But decks on the Pro Tour? Popular tournament decks? Published casual decklists? I don't think I've seen anything. So I threw this together...

I actually don't remember how I came up with this one at all. I mean, Erhnamgeddon was a deck name based the "combo" of Erhnam Djinn + Armageddon. It was a deck that dropped large, efficient creatures and then blew up all the lands, leaving opponents with no way to catch up. I had definitely...

I forget whether the card pool in the game let me even have access to a straight port of Brian Weissman's "The Deck" (also known sometimes as Keeper). I think some cards were missing. But this was my take on the same sort of spiritual idea as those old decks. Play busted cards, stay alive, don't...

The game had Mishra's Workshop in it. So of course I had to build a Shops deck. Call it MUD, Monobrown, Workshop Aggro, Artifact Goodstuff, or whatever. The closest resemblance I recognized was to "Stacker" decks from the early 00's in Type 1, although it's different in some important respects...

Like I mentioned in the Butter Knives thread, I made about ten different decks in the old computer game. Most of them were derivative of stuff I'd seen in the past. I don't think I actually looked at a real Turbostasis list before making this. I just vaguely remember the concept and threw in...

TomB's post in the Dark Ritual thread reminded me that I have some old decklists from in the Magic the Gathering computer game that Microprose made in 1996, and I thought it might be interesting to revisit my decklists. I defeated Arzakon, the final boss in Shandalar, way back in 2005, then...