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Ever heard someone use the expression Counter-Burn? Imagine if you will, an aggressive deck that has the ability to protect all its threats with counterspells while continuously assaulting the opponents with burn spells. This is that deck. The goal is to cast one of three creature spells: Delver of Secrets , Young Pyromancer, or Monastery […]
Do you like dealing 20 points in a matter of minutes? If so, this is your deck. The entire basis of Red Deck Wins (RDW) is to throw as much damage as you can in as little time as possible. To do this, the deck runs very few lands and as many damage maximizing spells […]
Blue moon is a UR control deck based around locking the opponent out of the game with the card Blood Moon. Early turns are spent trying to slow the opponent down with cheap answer cards such as Lightning Bolt, Remand and Mana Leak, until the pilot can play a Blood Moon and finish. The deck […]
BG/x is most commonly seen in three different flavours – BG (Rock), BGR (Jund), and BGW (Junk or Abzan). They are all midrange decks that switch quickly between taking a controlling approach to the game or taking an aggressive one. The central goal of this archetype is to win a battle of attrition. This means […]
The Affinity deck is known as the fastest and most consistent aggressive deck in the format. However, it is also one of the most difficult decks in Magics history to pilot optimally. The goal of Affinity is to establish a strong board presence as fast as possible, using zero mana creatures such as Memnite and […]
The Modern Ad Nauseam deck revolves around a two-card combo of Ad Nauseam and Angel’s Grace or Phyrexian Unlife that aims to win on turn 4. The aim of the deck is to ramp to six mana using some combination of Lotus Bloom, Pentad Prism, and Simian Spirit Guide. Once the player has six mana, […]
Abzan company is an extremely consistent and powerful combo deck that aims to assemble Viscera Seer with either Melira, Sylvok Outcast or Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit and then finally Kitchen Finks or Murderous Redcap. The combo works in the following way: you sacrifice Kitchen Finks or Murderous Redcap with Viscera Seer. The creature dies. Persist triggers […]
The decks here are presented in alphabetical order. Deck names are followed by the archetype and tier.Note on language: In this primer, combo decks are those that aim to win the game in one shot with some kind of loop or other card interaction.Synergistic decks aim to assemble groups of cards, like a combo, but […]
Green is primarily recognized as a midrange colour with options that either become better as the game progresses, or that cost a large amount of mana. However, certain decks have been known to lean on green as an aggression enabler (see Infect as an example). Green is also valued as a colour that has ways […]
Red was traditionally known as a very aggressive colour that has poorer options as the game gets longer, however to some extent this is no longer true. The colour certainly has many excellent spells and creatures that fill the 1 to 2 mana range, but has also been increasingly given more midrange options that fill […]