Merry Christmas, you filthy animals: In 1 Arcane Signet 1 Talisman of Indulgence Out 1 Dread 1 Ob Nixilis, Unshackled Dread and Ob Nix are vestigial cards from when this was Staxdos, I've abandoned that plan for the Combo Finish. In their place comes two 2-drop mana rocks. I have no illusion that th...

If I'm supposed to Cantrip my way to Victory, then I should put in more ways to pay off Cantrips: In 1 Wavebreak Hippocamp Out 1 Search for Azcanta I want to cast a small Instant on each of my opponents turns, doubling it with Kalamax to accrue enough value that I can push for the win. Wavebreak Hip...

Trimming lacklustre Legends: In 1 Ophiomancer 1 Dance of the Dead Out 1 Teysa Karlov 1 Whisper, Blood Liturgist Trimming the mana value is merely a nice bonus. Teysa could come back once I have a better skeleton but right now, I need more ways to poop out bodies than pay that off. Ophiomancer comes ...

Replacing a Banned card: In 1 Glen Elendra Archmage BANNED 1 Golos, Tireless Pilgrim Golos is silly, so I was having a hard time figuring out what to replace him with. I decided to settle on Glen Elendra Archmage because she'll protect my board fairly cheap. Kenny can give her a +1/+1 to reset the P...

Replacing a Banned Card: In 1 Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain BANNED 1 Golos, Tireless Pilgrim Considering my discussion about Golos on the previous page, it is no surprise that the hammer was dropped on him. I was just lazy trying to figure out what to cut for him. Initially, I thought of Chulane, Tel...

Stax is dead, Long Live Rakdos!: In 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire 1 Massacre Wurm 1 Chrome Mox 1 Mox Diamond 1 Prismatic Vista Out 1 Sire of Insanity 1 Myojin of NIght's Reach 1 Nullstone Gargoyle 1 Void Winnower 1 Mountain My wins with this deck involve consistently searching up an Infinite with Gray ...

I've wrapped around: In 1 Chrome Mox 1 Necropotence 1 Windfall 1 Wheel of Fortune Out 1 Dark Confidant 1 Grim Haruspex 1 Pyre of Heroes 1 Snuff Out I cut the mass draw suites in the past because I had a crapload of trickle draw. That was fine when the deck wasn't as lean. As it stands now, I easily ...

More gas: In 1 Once Upon a Time 1 Sprouting Vines 1 Forest 2 Island 1 Mountain Out 1 Wilderness Reclamation 1 Valakut Awakening 1 Alchemist's Refuge 1 Opal Palace 1 Guildmages' Forum 1 Karn's Bastion Surprisingly, I don't want Wilderness Reclamation. I'm basically cantripping my way to victory, so I...

The Kamigawa precons have been announced and one is Vehicle-based. I hope there isn't too much non-Blue crap, as I can easily see Red and White get the Vehicle love; hell, Red seems to have the most support for Vehicles.

Improving the Ramp package: In 1 Vedalken Engineer 1 Scaretiller 1 Neurok Stealthsuit Out 1 Dragonkin Berserker 1 Foundry Inspector 1 Sword of Light and Shadow Dragonkin is just a 2/2 who never really that I never had the luxury of Boasting with and so it gets the axe. Foundry Inspector is another p...

While I don't play Peer into the Abyss , I will vouch for its insanity. That card is pure gas, especially since you've got a Big Mana setup where you can Cast it and then still have leftover mana to dump what you need onto the board and your opponent's faces. You don't even need Req Tower because yo...

Improving the draw suite?: In 1 Morbid Opportunist Out 1 Midnight Reaper Morbid draws me a card once per turn, which is very easy to trigger with the random bodies I can toss away. Out of all of my three drop draw engines, I think that Midnight Reaper is the least impressive. He has piss poor typing...

Half is not enough: In 1 Embercleave Out 1 Scytheclaw Halving someone's life total isn't enough; perhaps if it was halved before combat damage I would be singing another tune. Even though Scytheclaw brings its own body, I am not interested in that. Most of my wins are from trying to count to 10 with...

First update with her: In 1 Malakir Rebirth 1 Reanimate 1 Vampiric Tutor 1 Animate Dead 1 Demonic Tutor 1 Diabolic Intent 1 Anguished Unmaking 1 Necropotence 1 Utter End Out 1 Blot Out the Sky 1 Circle of Despair 1 Twilight Drover 1 Twilight Prophet 1 Vindictive Vampire 1 God-Eternal Oketra 1 Requie...

Wulfgar is going to be my next little deckbuilding project, so definitely will take some of your card choices and opinions under consideration. So thanks for sharing it Cool. Well, come along my journey of punching faces. Found my Purph!: In 1 Ogre Battledriver 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge Out 1 G...

More abusive meta %$#%$#%: In 1 Sakura-Tribe Scout 1 Return to Nature 1 Misty Rainforest 1 Scavenger Grounds Out 1 Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios 1 Repulse 1 Forest 1 Island Jadzi failed me. I never wanted to cast them and the dream of holding a huge grip, casting the flip side and putting all of those l...

I didn't want to make a Combo deck, I wanted to make an Aristocrats deck and my guys in the seats weren't doing that. They get the boot so I can: New Commander 1 Thalisse, Reverent Medium Old Commander 1 Prava of the Steel Legion 1 Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools In 1 Morbid Opportunist 1 Smothering Abom...

Embracing the Creature Aggro: In 1 Joraga Treespeaker 1 Into the North 1 Smuggler's Copter 1 Blighted Woodland 1 Highland Forest 1 Highland Weald 1 Myriad Landscape 1 Strip Mine Out 1 Explore 1 Rampant Growth 1 Chain Reaction 1 Ash Barrens 1 Game Trail 1 Gruul Turf 1 Mossfire Valley 1 Skarrg, the Ra...

Honing the deck with some much needed updates: In 1 Guardian Augmenter 1 Snakeskin Veil 1 Field of Ruin Out 1 Sylvan Safekeeper 1 Blossoming Defense 1 Skarrg, the Rage Pits I've been growing cold on Sylvan Safekeeper. He comes down early and protects Thar but that's a problem because there have been...

Another old, new release: In 1 Axgard Armory 1 Field of Ruin Out 1 Lorehold Campus 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea I like what Axgard does more than Lorehold. Sure, I lose a colour but I get to Tutor for whatever I need - wincons, answers, Ramp and everything in between. I didn't think to axe any Basi...

This deck is too terrible to give out freebies: In 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer Out 1 Ghirapur Orrery My deck's wincon is to jump through all of the hoops and then win by turning Commons and Uncommons sideways, as I can't rely on my Fleet being made of Rare-plus. Ghirapur Orrery gives my opponents La...

Adjusting to the Meta: In 1 Druid Class 1 Psychic Spiral 1 Strip Mine 1 Field of Ruin Out 1 Exploration 1 Double Vision 1 Forest 1 Mountain Maybe I'm crazy but I found Exploration to be a little lacklustre. I frequently wanted to cast my Draw on other people's turns, cheat those Lands into play and ...

RTFC: In 1 Vicious Shadows 5 Snow-Covered Forest 3 Snow-Covered Mountain Out 1 Delina, Wild Mage 5 Forest 3 Mountain I thought Delina rolling 15+ meant I kept that Creature but that's just my wishful thinking attempting to bend reality. In her place comes Vicious Shadows which murders tables if I ge...

Well, this slipped by my notice: In 1 Minimus Containment Out 1 Frenzied Fugue Minimus Containment is a great way to deal with problem permanents. Prior, Frenzied Fugue was a 'timeshare' but the problem with slapping that on a dangerous permanent is that it will eventually come at me. There's also b...

Fiddling with Floors and Ceilings: In 1 Vadrik, Astral Archmage 1 Electric Revelation Out 1 Goblin Electromancer 1 Behold the Multiverse Vadrik is more expensive than Goblin Electromancer but while they share the same floor, Vadrik is a cost reducer where the sky's the limit, especially with the ran...