Hello everyone, The Oko era has expired and I'm sure all the brewers have crawled out their holes ready to cook up some crazy deck ideas without fear of turning their artifacts or janky creatures into 3/3 elks. Time to blow the dust off of your funky artifacts and today's article is going to feature... Continue Reading →
Hi everyone, I must admit that I think I have an addiction to building decks around Fires of Invention and finding ways to break the card in the most unconventional way possible. In my article yesterday, we tried to combine Doom Foretold with Fires of Invention and arrived at a control shell that aims to... Continue Reading →
Hi everyone, With the recent banning, it has been easier nowadays to think about decks that didn't restrict the archetypes you can explore and the diversity in sideboard options. Although I'm not saying that the banning hasn't turned Standard into the greenest pasture since Steel Leef Champion was spoiled. Every deck that's performing really well... Continue Reading →
Hello everyone, THRONE OF ELDRAINE is here and it's by far the most flavorful set Wizards has ever printed since Kamigawa. And while I loved brewing with Spirit Dragons and Zuberas, nothing is closer to my heart than food. Food tokens have created its own archetype and Throne of Eldraine has created a lot of... Continue Reading →
Hello everyone! I promised I'll revisit this pet deck of mine and here I am with some match report, climbing from Gold 4-0/6 to Gold 2-2/6. The journey wasn't easy and the deck had several minor revisions between Tier 3 and Tier 2 as the meta became a bit more aggressive. First swap I did... Continue Reading →
Hello again, readers! Nicholas here, and I’m back for another article on my journey towards the final Regional Pro Tour Qualifier taking place on Sunday, March 10, on Magic Online. Last time, I talked about getting the feel for the new Standard format and about which decks I was initially interested in testing for the... Continue Reading →
Hi everyone! Welcome back to the Lab! I'm sure that when you read today's article, you would probably know that we're playing a lot of cards that say "Destroy target something". Now you're probably asking, "what do you plan to destroy?". The answer is simple: anything and everything! The unicorn dream here is to lock... Continue Reading →
Nicholas here, and welcome to my first article for the Forbidden Alchemy! I hope fans of the Alchemist will also enjoy reading about the Spikier side of deckbuilding and tuning as I share with you my preparations for a big tournament coming up in March. As I described in my introduction post, I am qualified... Continue Reading →
Hi everyone, I'm sure you have already noticed by now that TFA now has three writers and this means we're able to cover more topics, more formats, more deck techs and deck discussions here on out. As a matter of fact, Julio has published his debut work on Semblance Anvil and the rebirth of KCI... Continue Reading →
Hello everyone, As promised in my previous post, I will share the test results with my Mardu Taxes deck that's showing a lot of promise in Best-of-One Platinum Tier 3 where we see a lot of meta decks trying to get to Mythic in the last leg of the season. The concept of the deck... Continue Reading →
Forbidden Alchemy 