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January 25, 2017
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Going Rogue: Ballistic Eggs
Hello and welcome back to Going Rogue, where winning isn't the goal but it often happens anyway. Today I want to take a step back and reflect on better times in Modern. Times when every turn was a careful sequence of complicated interactions. Times when your opponent's actions meant nothing other than giving you another turn. Times when you could spend 20 minutes trying to play out your entire...
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January 11, 2017
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Going Rogue: Jund Vial Blue
Hello and welcome back to Going Rogue, where winning isn't the goal, but it often happens anyway. It's been a while since I've been able to write an article (adulting is overrated), but I'm happy to be back today because I've got a weird one that aims to address one of Modern's fair-deck selection questions: "Which is better, BGx, or URx?" (Hint: The answer is both.) To archetype faithfuls, this...
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September 15, 2016
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Going Rogue: Interaction - Brewing with Kaladesh Spoilers
Hello and welcome back to Going Rogue, where winning isn't the goal but it often happens anyway. Today I just want to take a quick peek inside the most tantalizing of what Kaladesh has to offer, and run down a short list of a few of the new broken things it allows us to do in our favourite "whatever goes" format, Modern. First off is the most exciting of the bunch, . When I first saw Saheeli, I...
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August 26, 2016
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Going Rogue: Sprout Swarm Combo
Hello and welcome back to Going Rogue, where winning isn't the goal but it often happens anyway. Actually, the goal is making our opponents rage quit/table flip because they got beaten by a billion Saprolings. and has been around as a funny combo since before Modern existed, but it never had an adequate shell that could compete since it can be slow to assemble,...
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August 18, 2016
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Going Rogue at a Major Event: Jeskai Tempo
Hello and welcome back to Going Rogue, where winning isn't the goal but it often happens anyway. This past weekend, though, winning was very much the goal, as I took my favourite pseudo-brew to Syracuse to compete in my first constructed SCG Open event. I call it a pseudo-brew because almost every card in the 75 is a Modern staple of some form or another, but odds are good that you haven't seen...
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August 11, 2016
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Rogue Tech Report: August 2016 Edition
Hello and welcome back to Rogue Tech Report, where we take a look at some of the stranger plays going on in established Modern decks that might just actually be good. First up this week, we have a pair of cards from Eldritch Moon making a big splash in Kiki-Chord decks: and . Protect the Combo, Execute the Combo When Eldritch Evolution was first spoiled, both the...
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July 28, 2016
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Going Rogue: Developing Modern Spirits
Hello and welcome back to Going Rogue, where winning isn't the goal but it often happens anyway. Today I want to turn all of our attention to a tribe that's getting some serious love these days - as a result of new cards printed in Eldritch Moon. It seems pretty obvious that there's a top-tier Standard deck in there somewhere, but I want to make the case today that Spirits has what it takes in...
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July 22, 2016
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Going Rogue: Do The Evolution
Hello and welcome back to Going Rogue, where winning isn't the goal but it often happens anyway. With Eldritch Moon dropping at the end of the week, it's high time we discuss the potential Modern applications for its most interesting card. Of course, I'm talking about . This is a brewers fantasy. Totally useless card disadvantage in the average deck, but an absolute build-around with a crazy high...
