MTG Salvation Article Archives: Monthly: June 2006One of the things I didn't spend a lot of time talking about before was the composition of a particular playgroup. As my introduction, I’m going to discuss a recent deck that I created, called ‘Vengeance from the Heavens’ or ‘Oh, White Wee. Welcome to today's episode of Casual Magic with yours truly, DarkRitual, as the host. Last weekend, a record 525 players, representing 175 teams, descended on Charleston, SC for the first ever Team Constructed Pro Tour. If you’ve played competitive Magic, you’ve probably been cheated at some point. Magic is a game that's based entirely on predictable concepts. In the Wordplay format, each 40-card deck may consist of only 26 cards other than basic lands, one for each letter of the alphabet. Yes, there are answers to all your questions to be found in Cranial Insertion. It is now officially the season of ice cream, that immensely unhealthy, yet gloriously satisfying blend of sugar, artificial flavour, and cow extract. Well, when I wrote this article, many people predicted I'd be playing again. The current Standard environment has no lack of multicolor decks - the shocklands, painlands, bouncelands, and Birds of Paradise make it so easy to run two or even three colors in a deck without much fear of getting colorscrewed. Hi y'all! Tom and I are gearing up for the excitement that is Pro Tour: Charleston, so I'm spending a bit of time on the east doing things that in no way promote my goal of global domination that you can't prove I have planned. The coolest things about Coldsnap are the Precons. These articles are my favorite to write -- full of nothing but speculation on what cards could/should/would see play in different formats. Keywords have existed from the beginning of Magic: the Gathering. Welcome back, folks. Dissension is in the books, we’ve emptied the mailbag, and we’ve taken a look at the wonderful word of abilities and effects. One of the most exciting mechanics and also only the second major block mechanic to be reused in a later set is the Split cards.
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