It’s the holiday season, which means everyone is just trying to run down the clock until January is working hard every day until Santa Claus comes to town. This week and next, we’re going to focus mostly on some extended quick hits (lower case “e”), as well as whatever else I think is worth getting into.
This time of year is really the only “downtime” that Magic has, which makes it the ideal opportunity to stock up for your long-term targets. We’ll talk about the way to best take advantage of this time of year, as well as the easiest ways to avoid cabin fever1. Let’s get started with an unexpected addendum to last week.
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Do you remember Caw-Blade? If you played during the original Zendikar block, you surely do. It was a tremendously skill-testing deck, with the better pilot always able to edge out advantages over worse players.
Pros loved it because it gave them a tool to beat all comers, and the better player basically always won. Non-pros hated it, because half the room was playing the same deck and they didn’t enjoy feeling like they had no chance whatsoever to beat a more talented opponent. Directly resulting from Caw-Blade’s dominance was the banning of Jace, the Mind Sculptor and Stoneforge Mystic (except in the Event Deck, an extremely odd corner case to this day). History remembers Caw-Blade as one of, if not the, best Standard decks ever to find the inside of 75 sleeves.
Twin Blade was better.
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Today is going to be a no-nonsense look at what is very potentially the softest sub-market in Magic for the present and immediate future. The cards that we are going to discuss today are not the only ones worth discussing; this is rather a “teach a person how to fish”approach, where you are able to take the parameters (as well as apply your own!) in order to make informed decisions for yourself. There will be a complementary thread in the forums for you to share your own thoughts and targets, so as to be a more long-lasting (and more secure!) discussion than the comment section (which is typically reserved for you people to tell me how great I am).
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