Well the rumors were true. Monday Wizards officially announced the new Banned and Restricted announcements for the upcoming Rivals of Ixalan season and four cards were hit with the hammer. Two expected and two unexpected but both are powerful shake ups to the format. We’re starting with the two elephants in the room. Energy took…
Over the week leading up to GP New Jersey, I saw a surprising trend of professional players discussing the ease with which they could attend, if the format were not so bad. I had never seen professional players skip a Limited event before, and it led me to wonder, will Rivals improve the experience of…
Hello and Welcome! This week on Dave’s Deranged Decks we will be diving back into modern. My friend Anthony suggested I give this list a try. It’s a Mardu deck with an aggressive amount of speed and burn combined with some powerful spells for some late game inevitability. The deck seemed like it was absolutely…
The follow up to Ixalan is finally upon us. Rivals will make its way to standard very soon and with the entire list spoiled there might be some shake ups in the top decks. Ixalan was a very tribal focused set but most of the tribes struggled to make their debut outside of casual or…
This has been a long year for Standard. We’ve seen many sets enter the format with some new spicy cards shaking things up, looking at you Hostage Taker. But the monarch of Standard has failed to be dethroned. There’s been a lot of spin offs of it but the original still remains the best. That’s…
Hello! and Welcome to another Dave’s Deranged Decks! We are going to kick off the new year with a personal favorite… Jund! Jund and I go way back to the very beginning of modern and it’s a deck that I never quite let go. No matter how many decks I explore in Modern I always…
Kenji did it! Happy New Year Everyone. MOCS Winning Draft Deck And how Kenji got to 8-2 with tiebreakers just good enough for top 8!
Control has taken a lot of forms in Standard recently. From Blue Black control and it’s off shoot Grixis control, winning through value removal and the Scarab God, to Blue White Approach which wins by keeping the battlefield clear and casting Approach of the Second Sun twice. But a new type of control deck has…
Almost a year ago there was one deck that not only did everyone know about but it was one of the top decks in standard. No, it wasn’t Aetherworks Marvel, it was Mardu Vehicles. Piloting some of the strongest cards in Magic at the time, it was an agro deck that just ran away with…
Hello everyone! Welcome to another edition of Dave’s Deranged Decks! Today we will be bringing you some Modern action and I am joined by special guest and good friend Nick who helped my brew this week’s deck. It is a spicy one. We are calling the deck Rain of Gore named after the card it…
