Wizards Tower
December 11, 2015
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Bringing Light to Scapeshift
Six decks (see a Scapeshift primer) featuring (BTL) made Day 2 at GP Pittsburgh, outnumbering vanilla Scapeshift which only had one appearance. It also had numerous top 8 appearances at the most recent round of RPTQs. 5th (Prague) 2nd (San Diego) 1st (Rockville) 6th (Toronto) 1st (Montreal) I want to talk about how the card changes the deck and the toolbox it offers. What Scapeshift gained with...
Wizards Tower
December 10, 2015
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Rogue Tech Report: Christmas Edition 2015
Hello and welcome to Rogue Tech Report, the Going Rogue spin-off series where we look at some of the best cards you might never have expected to see in constructed play. Magic's 22-year history is packed with hidden gems that could be making a big splash in a deck you already play. This occasional column will highlight some of these gems that are either currently trending, or simply show far more...
Wizards Tower
December 9, 2015
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Four Tournaments with Esper Control
Back in early November I wrote an article on Esper Control, a deck I had good early success with and that seemed both consistent and effective. I’ve now played the deck in four separate 4-round tournaments putting up a total of 10 wins, 4 losses and 2 draws, hopefully an indication that this is a legitimate tier 2 modern deck. For those curious about the effectiveness of Esper control in...
Pierre Dupont
December 8, 2015
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Let it snow in EDH!
Welcome back to another episode of Musings of a Madman! This week we’ll look at the Snow mana mechanic. Largely irrelevant at its inception in Ice Age, snow mana comes from, you guessed it, snow basic lands such as . The cards featuring it back then were either clunky for casual play or irrelevant for tournament play, so that was that, a cool idea with a poor execution. and its black...
Wizards Tower
December 7, 2015
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The 75% Commander Deck, and What That Means
Every EDH player has the age-old "competitive versus casual" debate at least once a month or so. This is because you have players who want to play grindy tournament-ready decks all the time, and people who think that their pre-con with only five cards added should be "allowed" to win. I find myself often being the rare middle-man in these arguments, and thinking that every deck type should be...
Wizards Tower
December 4, 2015
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A Higher Standard: Modern
Due to the GP Pittsburgh being a few weeks ago and the amount of successful modern tournaments I see everywhere I decided to write an article on my favourite modern deck even though I don’t currently like where modern is at all honestly. I hate that I could be playing 74 of 75 of a deck that did well last year and not have missed a beat. It’s the pure definition of stale. The high power level...
Wizards Tower
December 2, 2015
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Going Rogue: Sultai Dredgevine
Hello and welcome back to another edition of Going Rogue, where winning isn't the goal but it often happens anyways. This week I'm going to walk you through an alternate build of one of my favourite Modern archetypes, Dredgevine. For the unfamiliar, Dredgevine is a Black and Green-based archetype that aggressively fills up its graveyard using effects like Dredge, discard, looting, and other forms...
Pierre Dupont
December 1, 2015
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Commander Play by Play #AtTheTower!
Welcome back everyone! This week we’re going to be doing something a little different by observing a play by play of Commander between four very varied decks, notably Ken’s deck, Ben’s deck, my deck and Nathan’s deck. While the power levels of the deck varied greatly, we all managed to get a few licks in before the inevitable happened. For the purposes of this article, use the following...
