Decklist: URG Shenanigans' Path

Settle down children, and let me take you on a journey. Not only do I have a decklist for you today, but I thought I'd give you some insight into my deck building process. It was an interesting journey, and hopefully someone out there will be able to gleam a little deckbuilding knowledge from it.

Now, today's deck is an odd one. Every once in a while I'll stumble across a card from Magic's past that had somehow eluded me for all these years. Some cards, like Surprise Deployment or Saprazzan Heir, are nice additions to my Johnny arsenal and beg to be built around. On the flip side, others are so bad that they stick with me and taunt me until I put their spirits to rest by building a deck around them.

The lynchpin for today's deck is one such card. Often called the worst Magic card in existence, this card gives a mediocre effect for such a steep cost that it's ridiculous by today's standards. Can you guess which card I'm getting at? Hailing all the way from 1994's The Dark, it's...

Decklist: URG Zada, Hedron Grinder

Today's BFZ spoilers gave us quite the Johnny tool. A friend and I had challenged each other to build a deck around an RTR gem; unfortunately we never really got any traction, and the deck fell onto the backburners. That is, of course, until this card was spoiled today. Can you guess what the RTR card was?

Top 5 Under-the-Radar Draft Cards in Fate Reforged

Here's a quick Top 5 of cards that may not have looked like much at first glance, but once you get to playing with (or against) them in draft, you quickly start to see their power. As it turns out, each color is represented here, so you'll know what to look out for no matter what you're drafting.

Drafting the Mechanics of Fate Reforged

Well, after a bit of a hiatus, it's time to get things back into high gear with the release of Fate Reforged. I sat down with some buddies on release weekend and got three drafts in my system, and if there's one thing I noticed it's that its a slow set to draft. While there are obviously some fast and powerful cards in the set, the environment tends to favor stand-off situations, making it almost a game of inches.

With that said, I figured I'd do a quick breakdown of what to look for while drafting the set. Let's take a look at the mechanics, shall we?