Chris is a Strictly EDH player and thorough Melvin from Columbus, OH. He squeezes in games whenever he isn't on adventures with his wife and toddler daughter.
Greetings, Average MtGers! I’m back with another PSA today, and I’d like to discuss why I do not consider effects like to be removal. Before you voice all those thoughts running through your mind, yes I concede there are caveats to this; we’ll talk about caveats down the line. But overall, I do not count these cards as removal when building my decks. “Don’t worry everyone….I’ll be back.” We have seen several iterations of over the years (though I feel a bit bad not giving credit to ), and each card has seemed less powerful than before. I’m speaking of
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It has been some time since my last PSA. I moved back to first shift at work, and now regularly attend my LGS for Commander night. This past Wednesday was a solid evening of games. I managed to squeeze five games into four hours (shout out to my deck for making two of them end quickly), and the final game brought about an idea for this article. I am sure plenty of us have games where we put blinders on, and focus solely on developing our own board. When this occurs you can miss important plays, or key
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Greetings, again! It’s been a while since my last post here, and this time around I’m going to bring some (hopefully) useful, and continual insight to your EDH games. I’ve been strictly an EDH player (outside of the occasional pre-release) for many years, and I’ve seen plenty of interesting board-states develop. For my first article in this series, I’d like to talk about a card that has gone unchecked more times than anyone is comfortable admitting, . Surely, has reared its head at your tables at least once, and we all dread that most heinous question: “Are you going to
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The following was submitted for the Strictly Average site from CNWeezard, an active trader on Puca Trade and fixture in the Discord chat channel. The Nexus on Puca Trade is a glimpse of which cards are received daily. If you watch it for any amount of time, you may have noticed an irregular number of Topan Freeblade flowing through in the month of December. OK, honestly, an absurd amount of them. We have one great trader to thank (blame) for that, Mr Strictly Average himself. The real question is: why? What reason does he desire these little gems? The art is
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