Category: Level Up

Cube construction

Peasant Cube on a Budget – Black

Best Practices, Drafting, Magic the Gathering

Welcome back once more to Peasant Cube on a Budget! We’ve already looked at how to make a basic white and blue section of our cube – today, it’s black’s turn. First, The Rules Again But first, a refresher on what exactly we’re trying to achieve here! We’re aiming for a basic 360-card cube. We’re going to fill it with cards that have seen at least one printing at a rarity of common or uncommon, and are at most $3 a copy as of the time of writing. We’re going to aim for an even color distribution in our cube,

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What deck should I play?

Best Practices, Casual, Level Up, Magic the Gathering, Modern, Self Help, Standard, Strictly Short

Heya Strictly Friends! I’ve missed you guys, and have missed sharing my random thoughts and ramblings. Today, I wanted to take a bit and write about the most common questions I am asked across all mediums in Magic: “What deck should I play?” Everybody you talk to will give you a different answer. Recently I have put a lot of thought into this, and I have started to change my approach to deck choice for different events. The first question I ask back when someone asks me what deck they should play at XXXXX event is simple. What are your goals for

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EDHPSA: Oblivion Ring is not removal

Best Practices, EDH, EDHPSA, Magic the Gathering

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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Strictly Eternal 101 – The Balance

Best Practices, Eternal MTG, Magic the Gathering

Howdy folks! It’s Joe again and we’re here to talk about Balancing Acts of the 1500’s! Well, actually, no we’re not. But that would be kind of cool, don’t you think? No, this time we’re here to talk about the real balance between this silly little game and the dreaded notion of real life. Yes, I know this is not totally Eternal MTG related, but hey, it’s still important to talk about. It can be very easy to be 100% invested in Magic at all times. There’s so much content out there to devour that it can be very simple

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