nbsp;Once Outlaws of Thunder Junction comes out in a week or so, we will have large sets in Standard. I have been having fun playing an Insidious Roots deck in Arena. My decks usually live in Platinum, but this one made it to Mythic. I have been posting many of the games to my Magic YouTube...

   nbsp;I build these decks to understand how cards interact. In order to make this deck work against an opponent, you can substitue or so cards with cards that interact with opponents destroy creatures, counter spells, and so on . Falco is a lot of fun. Add a bunch of counters, build up mana, and...

   nbsp;I cracked seven packs IRL: in real life of Midnight Hunt and made four decks with the cards. I reconstructed each deck in Arena and am playing them against the bots. It’s my way to see how many of the cards play. These three decks are very low power. As I crack more packs, I will be able to...

   nbsp;Yeah I loooove these cards. I am having a lot of fun collecting them. Including one in every pack of Strixhaven is a stroke of genius, the design is just perfect, and the cards are iconic and playable. What more can we ask I have these and most of the others. Out of , as of now, I am only...

   nbsp;I applaud Wizards for getting players to be in tiers like they do in sports cards. More power to them. The fetchlands have been used to create an artificial environment in which the entry to Modern is through to packs, depending on which set I am going back all the way to the original...

   nbsp;Umm, that seems like a random date range. It isn’t. This is the date range some people found out that the Onslaught fetch lands were going to be in Modern Horizons, and this is the date range when all those people went on a buying spree for the Onslaught versions of the cards...

   nbsp;In response to someone predicting the fetches would tank in value in the near future:It will be great if your predictions prove correct, but you have several major unkowns, and any or all can make prices stay the same, even go higher:We don’t really know when people will be back at percent...

   nbsp;This deck got me all the way to Mythic during March . I am not planning to update it for Strixhaven because I took red out of it and switched in blue. nbsp;

   nbsp;We are used to the acronym RDW for Red Deck Wins, a very fast deck that beats face hard and wins quickly, but here is a twist: Blue Deck Wins. If I get enough unsummon effects going against any creature heavy deck, I can win fairly consistently. It’s one heck of a troll deck

   nbsp;I have been negative about set boosters because I am used to draft boosters, but I have come to the realization that I don’t mind if Wizards has weaseled a way to increase the price of boosters by percent. I don’t consider myself an entitled player and it’s OK for Wizards to make a little...

   nbsp;We are on the eve of Monarch coming out in Flesh and Blood FaB . FaB has already gone into full speculative bubble mode for some of the more collectable cards, with a handful of cards valued in the thousands of dollars. The game seems to be well managed, and is currently in the middle of...

   Even though this blog is dedicated to Magic, I write here about my Yugioh collection. I came the conclusion back in or so that Yugioh was ten years behind in collecting when compared to Magic: that the same price increases would happen in Yugioh, but delayed roughly by a decade. BUT, the two...

   nbsp;I can imagine being present at the meetings where the one set block was sold and bought by the people at Wizards with the power to implement this significant mistake. The logic is simple, as it often is for great successes and great failures: our players love many types of sets and many...

   nbsp;Having played a lot with JTMS in Legacy on MTGO, this card is missing a lot of how the card would translate into Yugioh,https: gatherer.wizards.com Pages Card Details.aspx printed true amp;multiverseid IMHO. Jace is not a beat stick planeswalker, instead good at controlling the game....

   nbsp;Wizards has done such a great job milking the fetchlands. First, some background:The best dual lands in Magic come in untapped and have basic land types. For example, Tropical Island is both a Forest and an Island, and it enters untapped.The next best dual lands in Magic are the fetchlands....

   This deck has some fun interactions.Constellation triggers tokens from casting enchantments.Beast Whisperer draws me cards every time I cast a creature.Arboreal Grazer is great to drop two lands early game and also to trigger Beast Whisperer middle to late game.What’s better than Beast Whisperer ...

   nbsp;I have been watching the Magic bubble inflate for a while. I have also seen many call the impending burst of the bubble, and it has not happened. I believe that none of us know when the bubble will burst. First, I would like to go through the logic of why we are in a bubble.A bubble in any...

   nbsp;I made a few changes by adding some flyers.Here is another early Gate Colossus.Here is a pair of Gate Colussus early game.Guild Summit must be a playset in this deck. It’s a great card draw engine almost every turn after it drops.And especially when a second one drops mid to late game and you...

   nbsp;This deck is a lot of fun. I will describe it in two posts, one before high end flyers are added, and one after. All screenshots are MTGO solitaire. Here is the deck:We will need at least one Arboreal Grazer in our opening hand.District Guide will help us get the colors we need, but we have to...

   nbsp;I love Ikoria, and I think long term, the set opened up new design space for Magic that is wide open for exploration. The first time is always hard because there is no precedent. I am betting that Return to Ikoria is already on the schedule. And if it isn’t, that’s a major mistake. Wizards...

   nbsp;Here are links to two matchups I played against and then seven iterations of my monoblue version of an Ominous Seas deck. The decklist: . Encountered I played against Azorius Manabase Izzet Manabase . My Deck Version vs Green Stompy Version vs Yorion Dimir ...

   nbsp;In this post, I plan to annotate the match ups I have been uploading to my YouTube channel as I work my way through a cube I am building for the very first set Standard with all large sets in Magic’s now long and beautiful history. There are multiple posts, given that for some decks I have...

   Every now and then someone will post on reddit worrying about the eventual demise of this great game. This is what I reply: There are things Wizards does that annoy me I don’t care for any pack that costs more than , period , and I think sometimes that Wizards would be better off by itself, but...

   This is an aggregated post for builds with the ten companions from Ikoria. The builds can be constructed Standard, constructed Modern, and also Commander. Commander Builds: Eutropia with Keruga Companion Casual Commander Build http: mtgadventures.blogspot.com eutropia with keruga...

   This build is somewhat more restrictive because the commander has to have an even casting cost. This is not a good deck to model on MTGO because I can’t tell which one of the creatures Gyruda sends to the graveyard is associated with each Lazav trigger. As with other ETB’s, you want to be...