(I wrote this post on the MTG Salvation forums in response to two post: Why do you netdeck & Why DON’T you netdeck, but my post read more like an article, so I decided to post it here is well. Click Here for the original.)

With all this discussion on Netdecks vs Homebrew, I just wanted to bring to light the ridiculousness of this conversation.
Everyone Netdecks & Everyone Homebrews. Why does it matter?

Every Homebrewer has a deck that looks remarkably like...

After years of rolling with the same boring avatar, I have decided that I needed a new one that makes people respect me and take notice when I start laying down the law. After I found one of high class I crafted a custom title to push through the message I felt necessary to convey. You're welcome world.

Ok, i owe most of this deck to Orvar1111. I wanted to make a new deck and decided on Ib Halfheart. I looked through the database and found Orvar1111's decklist. I used baseically the same setup (with a lot of lands) and a LOT of the same cards. Just a little different. And i thank you again Orvar.

Deck
GENERAL 1x Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician PLANESWALKERS 1x Chandra Ablaze INFANTRY 1x Goblin Ruinblaster 1x Goblin Guide

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I went to a prerelease yaaaaaay!!

It's strange, the last time I went to a prerelease I could only stay for a certain amount of time and didn't have much fun. This time was much different/better, as I found a new great place to play cards, learned a lot about the new set, and even won some prizes.

I showed up to The Grid in Manchester, CT today to do the prerelease (I would have yesterday, but I was in Boston), and the store looks amazing off the bat. Everything you could...

I've decided to compile all my proxy card images in one place.

I play a lot of EDH, so I've made a bunch of generals, especially older ones that have unappealing art. A lot of the singles I make are cards that see play in many EDH decks, especially ones I may not want to purchase more than four copies (or in some cases one copy, Bleh Duals).

Clicking on the thumbnail links to the full resolution image. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed making them!
And...

As many of you are familiar with, the more colors in your deck the more versitile it can be. The main problem with playing more than 2 or 3 colors is mana fixing. This has been a reason why Five color control hasen't been played yet in standard, but we have a few freinds now to help us color fix.

Now with the banning of JTMS and SFM there are many options left in standard, and i, as an inovative rogue player believe a new deck needs to enter the meta, and this deck completely stomps...

Werewolf Deck Wins is werewolf tribal deck built from the same philosophy as RDW. Play small creatures. Burn blockers. Win. This is my current list:

Deck
Lands 25 5 Forest 5 Mountain 4 Copperline Gorge 4 Rootbound Crag 3 Kessig Wolf Run 4 Hellion Crucible	Creatures 20 4 Reckless Waif 4 Wolfbitten Captive 4 Mayor of Avabruck 4 Daybreak Ranger 4 Huntmaster of the Fells Burn

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I'm baaaack

Yes yes the spoiler is out, the prerelease is in a week, Provincials is in 3 weeks...its going to be a good month for magic

So what have I been doing? well i was recently in the Lantern IQ, which if any of you play Modern go play in those. they are awesome and you have literally no reason to not play in it. Me and fellow teammate (name pending) Samiamnot06 top 8'd the tourney with RUG Delver. I lost to Bant Blouses and he lost to Naya Pod, both to...

Ok I wasn't actually going to write this but I've had a couple people ask me about decks, and I kinda want to write this as an article, so here goes:

So the first tournament of the year is over, and we got to see what RTR brought to the table. We saw a couple good decks, but the rest of them...well lets just say I hope people test more for this week, especially with Provincials/States coming up.

Its not to say this didnt give us a good baseline, but the best decks to...

Introduction

Recently, there has been a lot of discussion about the long-term viability of the Legacy format. Detractors of the format point to the Reserved List as the likely source of its demise. Proponents note that the format has only been growing in popularity despite these limitations and that the downfall of Legacy is nowhere in sight. There has been a lot of heated argument on both sides of the debate to advance their point of view, so I thought it would be more appropriate...

Good god is this deck fun to play. People come into the game expecting me to be all group hug and crap, and I do the exact opposite. Looking at this list, you may find that certain cards, like Rhystic Study, Silent Arbiter, and anything including the words "Destroy" and "Land" in the same sentence (except for Ghost Quarter (which doesn't even put opponents down a land) I don't even play standard land-killing lands)are missing. I've made a conscious decision to make this deck...

I wasn't sure if this belonged in Debate or here in General Magic, so I decided to put this in General Magic. If I was wrong for doing so, one of the Mods or Admins, is more than welcome to move this to the correct location.

I realize that most of these articles are really old, and that most of you have probably seen these articles before. But I have only just begun to see these articles between today and yesterday, and decided to write their authors some responses. I thought I would...

Card advantage is one of the most important elements in a game of Magic. It is how games are won. Dark Confidant and other black draw spells have shown us that cards are more important to winning than life totals. Spells like Ancestral Recall and Gush are banned in most formats because card advantage is just THAT important. Draw spells, like Divination, discard spells like Blightning and 2 or 3-for-1 exchanges like Wrath of God are common ways of racking up some card advantage. The less card advantage...

Deck
4 Razorverge Thicket 4 Copperline Gorge 4 Arid Mesa 3 Sunpetal Grove 2 Rootbound Crag 2 Mountain 4 Plains 1 Forest 4 Hada Freeblade 4 Akoum Battlesinger 4 Oran-Rief Survivalist 4 Kabira Evangel 4 Kazandu Blademaster 3 Tuktuk Scrapper 1 Talus Paladin 1 Kazuul Warlord	4 Fauna Shaman 4 Vengevine 1 Cunning Sparkmage 1 Stoneforge Mystic

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Deck
Planeswalkers 3x Jace Beleren 3x Gideon Jura Creatures 4x Wall of Omens 3x Abyssal Persecutor 2x Sun Titan 2x Wurmcoil Engine Artifact 4x Mimic Vat Spells 3x Doom Blade 4x Duress 4x Mana Leak 3x Day of Judgment	Land 2x Celestial Colonnade 4x Creeping Tarpit 4x Glacial Fortress 4x Drowned Catacomb 5x Swamp 5x Plains

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