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Building a Multiplayer Cube – Red

December 3, 2019 Martin Hughes Casual, Drafting, Magic the Gathering

Hi everyone, and welcome back to the monthly journey through the construction of a multiplayer cube. It’s only fitting that we hit red and green as we enter the festive season! Today we’ll be looking at my own cube’s red section as an example. Let’s go! As per usual, you can catch up on all of our previous work by reading the white, blue and black articles. The Red Section Firstly, here’s what my multiplayer cube’s red section currently looks like: Red clearly has some dragon action going on here. It can manage Dragon Tribal thanks to , and .

Building a Multiplayer Cube – Black

November 5, 2019 Martin Hughes Casual, Drafting, Magic the Gathering

Hi everyone, and welcome back to our monthly journey on building a multiplayer cube. Today it’s time to look at my cube’s black section as an example! You can catch up on the rest of the series so far by looking back at the white and blue articles. But for now, let’s forge into black… The Black Section Firstly, here’s what my multiplayer cube’s black section currently looks like: Black has one big mono-colored archetype here – Zombie Tribal. You can see this straight away in the presence of the tribal lords in , and . Also in here because

Building a Multiplayer Cube – Blue

October 1, 2019 Martin Hughes Casual, Drafting, Magic the Gathering

Hi everyone, welcome back to the series on building a multiplayer cube. Today we’ll be taking a journey through the blue section of my own cube as an example. You can catch up on the white section here. Okay, let’s go! The Blue Section Firstly, here’s what my blue section currently looks like: Blue has a few different archetypes going on in here. Along with classical blue control, there are two different archetypes it likes to run in combination with red – artifact themes, and Spells Matter. The artifact archetype hands us , , , , , and . Spells

Magic: the Gathering’s most popular format?

September 16, 2019 Scott Campbell Casual, EDH, Magic the Gathering

Hi everybody, and welcome back to Strictly Average MTG for another article. I hope you all have been well, and enjoying some of the Modern tournaments that have been played recently. The format continues to adapt from the last banned and restricted update, and I’ll provide my thoughts on that in a future article. Recently I attended Magicfest Indianapolis, and spent a lot of time playing Magic: the Gathering with a few friends. Not only did I have a lot of fun, but I also wanted to provide my thoughts on the format I played. In my opinion this is