Tag: Modern

Dave’s Deranged Decks | BW Planeswalker Control

Hello! Welcome back for another exciting week of Dave’s Deranged Decks. Today I will be jumping back into Modern. My deck of choice is B/W Planeswalker Control. The deck plays a bit more similar to a midrange deck rather than control after all there is no blue for counter spells. I must admit though I…

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Elsik Brews: Forbidden Curse

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…

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Elsik Brews: ETBeatdown

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…

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Elsik Brews: Gideons in Modern & Tezzerets in Standard

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…

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Modern Monday (On Friday!) – Mono-Black Midrange

Welcome back to another Modern Monday! As you can clearly tell, this article is a little later than usual. I found myself in Florida over the holidays and I could only get so many articles completed before leaving…so here we are! Modern Friday! Those details out of the way, there have been quite a few…

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Modern Monday – Mardu Vehicles

This past weekend I wandered into Mox Boarding House to pick something up and it happened to be during their weekly Thursday Modern tournament. I was promptly informed that someone was 3-0 with a spicy Mardu Vehicles homebrew. I was immediately intrigued and this was the list I was shown by one Zach Brady. 2…

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Modern Monday – Four-Color Planeswalkers

Last week someone on Facebook posted a Modern Four-Color Superfriends list to my wall from the SCG Classic and suggested I play it for some videos. The deck definitely looked sweet, having 17 planeswalkers, and I was immediately intrigued by it. Seeing that it was piloted by my good buddy and judge, Chris Lansdell, I…

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Modern Monday – U/G Eldrazi

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Modern Monday – R/G Warp World

I’m not sure if I’ve ever mentioned my friend and Community Cup mate, Bjorn, before on Modern Monday, but I know I’ve showcased Standard decks that were brewed up by him in other articles of mine. So the other day, Bjorn posts on my Facebook wall and says, “Lol, I’m 4-0 with a spicy Modern…

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Modern Monday – B/R Control

For those of you that remember Jerry Maguire, the deck we’re piloting today reminds me of a pretty famous line from the film: “You had me at …” For those that haven’t seen the movie, this is the part where Jerry Maguire, played by Tom Cruise, tries to cast , and Renee Zellweger’s character asks…

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