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Spoiler from Modern Horizons... As a bonafide Urza card, this will get a lot of hype. It's also probably going to be one of the strongest monoblue commanders out there. Playable in Modern, though? Legacy? That's going to be harder, and tournament decks ask a lot of a four-drop. They pushed...

If you really want a card to slow opponents down, keep them from being able to do what they want to do, and make them cry, then there's one iconic card that really stands out, perhaps the most unique card in the "prison" or "lockdown" category... Bask in the brown glory that is Smokestack...

This is my next deck for the West Coast Commander League. As detailed in the thread for my previous deck in this league (The End of Eternity), there's a new rotating weekly point for specifically casting the new Niv-Mizzet as one's commander, and I won't be going for that point. So I've...

For the West Coast Commander League, the month of May is going to feature some rather heavy-handed War of the Spark themes. This might mean some decks that depart further from my usual fare. To start off, alongside the usual non-rotating points, we've got... Bring Friends (+1): Activate a...

By now, you've probably seen my original report on the possibility of arranging tribes in tiers for some kind of 60-card constructed format. Aside from some interesting insights from Mooseman, that thread didn't really go anywhere and things continue to be quiet. But even as I prepared that...

My next concoction for the West Coast Commander League. I continue to resist the temptation to bring in the most vicious combo decks I can think of. Points I can go for with this deck... -Cast two "creature wrath effects" (basically kill or exile all creatures, with some fine print for...

Don't worry there won't be another one of these threads every week. Hopefully as time goes on I'll be revisiting some of the decks I've already played in the West Coast Commander League. I built this one with eyes on potentially acquiring certain achievement points... -Attack all of your...

Haven't put this together physically yet and I'm not entirely satisfied with how it turned out. Showed up to my local EDH league yesterday with a hastily constructed Jhoira deck because it was the easiest option. This time around, I have more advance warning on the points. In addition to the...

My friend who organizes our local EDH league screwed up and I only recently learned that for tomorrow's event, we're incentivized to run two-color decks. GCMLDA probably isn't appropriate for the league, so I threw this together. And all in what was, for me, record time. 1x Abrade 1x Arcane...

So, despite missing a couple of key weeks, I managed to just barely sneak into the Top 8 on achievement points in my local Commander League. I'm tentatively planning to dedicate more of my active deckbuilding efforts to that league, so I'll be tailoring new decks or revisions to existing decks...

This is a brand new decklist I haven't tested at all, but I'm aiming to try it on Sunday... Commander: 1x Abundance 1x Academy Rector 1x Akroan Horse 1x Arbiter of Knollridge 1x Azorius Signet 1x Bant Panorama 1x Bountiful Promenade 1x Brainstorm 1x Breeding Pool 1x Collective Voyage 1x...

Wasn't sure which board to post this on, but I wanted to share a post I came across on The Mana Drain, which I thought was an excellent example of an important point in deckbuilding for any variant of Constructed Magic...

While I was looking for singles in my badly-in-need-of-resorting collection, I found my box that has all all four Planechase precons and all four Planechase 2012 precons. I believe that the planar cards are stacked up with my other oversize cards on a bookshelf. I think Planechase is great fun...

Some of the people at my LGS were involved in early testing for the Brawl format and they tried to rope everyone into it from the start. I built a Jhoira deck for format as soon as Dominaria was released, but I guess I didn't really talk about it much here. Well, I did. And I didn't play it very...

Perhaps this one doesn't strictly fall under the category of "memories." Or perhaps it does? One of the two, probably... No really, I can start off with two important points. I love Nether Void. I think it's one of the coolest cards in the game. I have very little experience actually playing...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/announcing-modern-horizons-2019-02-28 Yes, yes, yes!

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/competitive-gaming/mythic-championship-ii-format-and-london-test-2019-02-21 Maybe Blake Rasmussen should consult Sam Stoddard about this idea. :rolleyes: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/latest-developments/mulligans-2015-08-07

Usually when I come up with these threads, I pick a card that is among my favorites, was among my favorites, or one which had some special place in my own decks at some time. But there are a couple that strike me more for their presence across the table. Not many. And most of those are a weird...

Came across this interesting (and quite long) article by Stephen Menendian: http://www.eternalcentral.com/history-of-vintage-schools-of-magic-an-alternative-history-of-the-banned-and-restricted-list/ While I'm not a fan of the article's overall format, it has some great insights and...

I apologize for how long this is bound to run. If it helps, rather than reading the whole thing, I encourage you to just skim it and read the parts that are of interest to you. What I’ve done is taken some notes I compiled on a few different occasions and tried to jam the whole thing together...