Revisiting Archetypes is one of the most fun things for me. If I build a deck and it feels not quite strong enough, I whisper to it “I will come back to you, don’t worry, soon, very soon” and gently put it back into the Deckbox. And by soon I mean 4-5 Sets, until a few cards get released that grab my attention and remind […]
Hello and welcome to what is hopefully becoming kind of an article series: 8 Cuts. Cutting 8 cards out of an existing deck and replace them with other cards. Why? 1. 100 Cards are a lot and identifying the weakest links is challenging and interesting. 2. I believe it’s hard to be immune to what I call „Staple-Blindness“ – some cards have been part of […]
Look. I’m a Gruul. By heart. Always have been. I need to be first on board. I need to attack. I need to strike fear in my opponents eyes. Waiting isn’t my thing. I was anti blue. Impatient „“ kinda guy. I like trampling all over silly chump blockers. I was a Naya warrior for a long time. Had some tournament success. I kept inventing. […]
Mid of February 2016: The 5th Installment of the Metagame Master Tournament Series was coming up and I didn’t know what to play. Absolutely no clue. I had been playing twice a week and was still waiting to feel confident about one particular deck, to have that „click!this is it!“-moment. I had been testing Mardu Midrange, Esper Midrange, Jeskai Burn and everything felt very close […]
