You did it! You managed to score a Lorcana starter deck and some packs at your LGS during limited release. Playing the starter deck is a blast, and maybe you’ve started to make some upgrades through trades or with those boosters you picked up. But what else can you do with your shiny new cards?…
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For veteran TCG players, aggro, control and combo just seem like self-explanatory deck types. Trying to apply those archetypes to Lorcana deckbuilding, however, has been throwing members of the Lorcana Twitter and Discord communities for a loop. We all know aggro is short for aggression, but what IS aggression in Lorcana? Control in other games, like Magic and Flesh and Blood, often relies on interacting with your opponent’s abilities on their turn. Lorcana doesn’t have that kind of interaction. And combos, well. They may be a tasty snack, but are there really enough of them in the game right now for it to be an entire deck type?
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With Phyrexia: All Will Be One we see some new fun cards that have to deal with Phyrexian Mite tokens and different ways to produce them and duplicate them. I personally love token decks and seeing some of the new token makers made me want to dive in and make a token deck for Standard,…
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Like zombies, dragons are a classic tribe in Magic: the Gathering. After all, these big scaly boys are staples of fantasy literature. They’re big, they’re powerful, and they’re just downright awesome. It only stands to reason that Wizards of the Coast would make one of the Commander Starter precons a smorgasbord of draconic goodness. You might almost say it was destiny.
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I will preface this post by saying that I have never really built or played a group slug Commander deck. The closest I have come is the Ruinous Powers deck from Warhammer 40k Commander. For my upgrade suggestions, I have had to rely heavily on my friends, the staff at my LGS, and EDHRec. With that said, after looking closer at this deck I just try my hand at putting together a list.
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On October 20th, Wizards of the Coast finally gave us the full decklists for the much-anticipated Commander Starter decks. Releasing on December 2, these five decks provide an inexpensive entry point for new and returning players to get into Magic’s (arguably) most popular format. The commanders themselves have been spoiled for a while, but we…
Read MoreLast week, MTG’s vice president of design, Aaron Forsythe, finally asked the question so many of us have been wondering about for two years: why is paper Standard dying in Magic: the Gathering? What is Standard? Standard was, for a very long time, the entry format for Magic: the Gathering. It was a Friday Night…
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For the last several weeks, my home FLGS has been running a Standard MTG league. For almost as long, I have been trying to get our nearly undefeated champ to give me his decklist so I could do a write-up on it. Finally, now that the league is winding down and he is experimenting with builds ahead of The Brothers’ War, Collin has given me the sauce.
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Since The Meathook Massacre was banned, Magic the Gathering players have been recalculating their decks to fit the changed metagame. A week later, Esper, Grixis, Rakdos and Jund are still on top of the heap by most measures. This could just be because players are standing by the decks they sunk hundreds of dollars into…
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