[Guest Article] Carlos, Lich Lord

Hey there! My name is Carlos, and I’m pretty excited to be doing a guest piece on Commander for Red Site Wins! I’ve been playing magic for more or less ten years now, and Commander is definitely the most fun I’ve ever had playing the game. If you’ve ever read any of my other articles over on Commandercast or Quiet Speculation, you’ll know that I’m a Johnny and a combo player at heart, and that especially holds true in Commander. The problem is that combo is so easy in this format. There are all kinds of tier one generals and strategies and try to combo off as brutally and efficiently as possible, and that’s not fun. The fun is in finding new and hilarious ways to combo.

So far I’ve published two terribad combo decks: Second Sunrise Zuberas (Tribute to Zhu) and Death Lace Combo (Reap what you Lace). Both were pretty well received by my group the first couple of times that I played them, and then got hated on pretty hard once the gimmick got old. But now I’ve got the itch to build a new bad combo deck, and I’m pretty sure this one is better and more gimmicky than both of the others. Let’s take a look at this week’s combo piece:

Red Cast Wins #9 – Don’t call it a comeback!

We come back after a long break with stories of GP Montreal. We also talk about Innistrad spoilers and our ever popular conversations on tilt.

MTG Financial Fundamentals: The Value Game

A common scenario:

 

You are wandering from table to table at a sizable Magic tournament.  Perhaps you’ll find a few cards for your latest Standard brew.  Perhaps you’ll find a couple of cards you’re speculating on for the cheap.  As you sit down at a table, someone approaches you and asks to trade.  Optimistically, you swap binders and begin the search.  You are delighted to see a few standard staples and the occasional modern gem.  You indicate to your trade partner that there are plenty of cards you’d be interested in trading for.  Your trade partner indicates the same, points to a hot staple, and asks “What do you value this card at?”

Top Tier Magic Episode 6

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Top Tier Magic Episode 5

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The Exiled of Modern by Alaric Stein

 We all got hit by the bombshell of a banned list for Modern last week. Was Wizards of the Coast overzealous with this list? Maybe. Did they want a very different format? Yes. It’s possible that WOTC will change the banned list after PT Philadelphia if they want to use it as one of the formats at Worlds.

Evolution of Big Red by Thomas Clark

October 2010’s rotation totally changed my builds for Magic the Gathering competitive deck play. After successfully playing Vampires or red-black combinations for nearly a year I finally decided to use the Jace, the Mind Sculptors I had acquired. I built a white/blue control deck utilizing Sun Titans, Squadron hawks, Day of Judgment and Roc Eggs (yeah. I said Roc Eggs). The theory was get out some eggs, blow up an agro board and suddenly I have creatures and you don’t. I would equip my sword of Body and Mind to a Roc and whoop on you. If this was 1995 it might have worked. In modern parlance, however, it sounds like a bad Caw-Blade build. And it was. I am trapped in my old school thought on deck building. I had retired from active play in 1995 after winning the first and only non-DCI State Championship for New York, not returning to an FNM table until 2009. Deck construction, regrettably, had been an unfortunate casualty of this. I didn’t understand the meta-game to save my life. I was a shadow of my former self.

Red Cast Wins #8 Sean the EDH Sensei

The group talks about the Showdown between Amanda and Luis. Sean lets them know they are both TERRIBLE at EDH but probably equally terrible. Jason joins us from Gencon and helps fuel the discussion about standard. Amanda also runs into a shady character at FNM and we let everyone know what to do in this situation.

Top Tier Magic Episode 4

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Top Tier Magic Episode 3

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