Recently at my local game store I stumbled upon this hilariously awesome deck that I just had to share. It’s a very unusual deck in that it aims to give the opponent a ton of creature tokens which in turn drain the opponent for a single life point, repeatedly, until they are dead. Just take…
This week I want to take a look at a sweet Standard deck that I originally saw Conley Woods playing on Twitch one night. He named it “Shock Puppet” after the main win condition in . This deck caught my eye because it plays with some uncommon Standard cards as well as one of my favorite…
Often I enjoy looking for innovative Modern decks on the forums or from recent Magic Online leagues. Occasionally I decide to build a deck from scratch and just toss it into the wide open world of Modern to see how it does. This week’s deck is just that, a deck that I’ve brewed up from…
For a while now we’ve seen hold his place as a dominant force in Standard. on the other hand has seen a reasonable amount of play in Modern in various and Thoper Sword half-prison, half-combo decks. However, with the recent introduction of Ixalan and some planeswalker rule changes, these two story-line characters deserve a spotlight…
The Zac Elsik Deck-Guide For Kids Who Can’t Magic Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too
With the new cards printed in Kaladesh, the Modern Lantern Control deck is getting some pretty big upgrades. Let’s take a look at all of the sweet new toys that Lantern now has access to.
Grixis as a color combination in Modern isn’t the most popular choice in the current metagame. A Grixis Midrange/Control deck doesn’t appear to have the strongest of tools for dealing with the other unfair decks that are available. Grixis Delver also appears less powerful when sized-up against other linear decks such as Infect, Affinity, Burn, Death Shadow,…
This past Sunday I took UW Control to a Modern event. This is a deck I quickly fell in love with when I saw it did well at an SCG Open a couple of weeks ago. The deck has a strong game plan against any creature based deck or midrange style deck, as well as countermagic…
This past weekend I had the opportunity to play in the SCG Invitational at New Jersey. This was a mixed format (Standard + Modern) tournament with an impressive number of highly skilled players in attendance and ready to battle. Preparing for this event was unusual in that I didn’t need to just have one deck I was…
With the release of Battle for Zendikar there were two new cards that caught my attention for Modern: and . These two cards were very similar to two other cards that have been around in Modern for a while but saw little play: and .
