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My cousin introduced me to this wonderful game when Fourth Edition was being released, back in the 90s. I stopped playing for a while after Mercadian Masques and have only kind of gotten back into it, in the sense that I don't really buy packs anymore, I just do singles.

The point of the decks I build, particularly here, is to create something that's fun to play against. You may lose, you may win, but my hope is that you will enjoy the experience either way, because the decks do relatively silly things. (I tend to stay away from Control decks for that reason; I find that Magic is most fun if both players are actually able to do things.) I'm a Johnny through and through, and will often build decks around a single card to the most logical extreme, regardless of whether the result plays well. I'm also budget-minded, and the vast majority of my listed decks retail for under $40.

In my mild-mannered, non-Magic-obsessed alter ego, I sing, write stories, write music, pet cats, and play Heroes of the Storm with my wife. And I am now working on some super-simple mono-color decks, and eventually simple guild decks, because we are about to bring a member of the next generation of planeswalkers into the world.

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Well, the first observation I'd make is that you only have one copy each of the Cloudseses, which isn't the right choice when you're trying to build the deck around him. I dare say you'll want a full playset of both. (I dare say this will be expensive.)

My next observation is that you'll want to simplify. Aside from the variety of Swords and EQ, you want as few spells as possible so you actually get them. "I have an answer in my hand" and "I have an answer in my deck (somewhere, and I have no way of reaching it)" are not the same thing.

March 11, 2025 10:27 a.m.

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