Not really tribal, as there aren’t any tribal support here. We just happen to have two Drakes with similar abilities available to us.
Guilds of Ravnica Brews, pt. 8 – Drake Tribal
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Wizards of the Coast and Experimentation
Wizards of the Coast issued this statement on Friday: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/experimentation-2018-09-21
Guilds of Ravnica Brews, pt. 7 – The Rock
It feels like there’s definitely a Golgari deck of some sort in there. Back in the day the idea was that The Rock (early name for Golgari) would have like 45% against everything. I think the current philosophy enables quite a bit more.
EDH Deck Time – Etrata
I can’t be the only one who wants to read this name as ‘Errata’.
I should note that the effect of shuffling this into your deck is a trigger and the target is the other creature. The trigger won’t be countered if Etrata is no longer on the battlefield. Also, you can always just choose to put her into your command zone anyhow.
Guilds of Ravnica Brews, pt. 6 – Monoblack Aggro
We already had quite enough 1-drops to make this work (at least a bit), so maybe…
The problem is more with the 2-drops, but Guilds does give this deck some long game… and Dead Weight. Granted, it’s no Fatal Push, but cheap removal is extremely important in a deck like this, especially since you have no usable discard.
Guilds of Ravnica Brews, pt. 5 – Monoblack Midrange
I mean, come on, I have to try….
Guilds of Ravnica Brews, pt. 4 – Midrange Elves
There hasn’t been a set with a bunch of elves in it, but they have sort of snuck up on me by just being around on several sets. Ixalan has none and we are losing some from Kaladesh, but the losses are not major and there’s some very interesting ones on Ravnica. Some I didn’t even think of as elves.
Watching Yourself Play
Last weekend I played at GP Stockholm. I was picked up for the feature on the second round. As you may know, most of the early round features are not based on the same criteria as the latter rounds, where they focus on famous players and those in the running for Top 8. In my case (and I asked Tobi Henke about this), I was picked, and I quote “[they] had access to certain decklists”. It was my fault then.
Pauper EDH Deck Time – Crackling Drake
One of the weird archetypes I like is Burn. Okay, Burn in itself isn’t strange, but I’ve liked those red-based decks that rely on just casting spells that work well with the creatures. I’m not explaining this very well, but think Thermo-Alchemist. That’s something.
Now, what’s the difference between Crackling Drake and Enigmatic Drake? Not much, actually, but at least we can use flashback, delve and the brand new jump-start (which is clearly the reason for some parts of the text on the card).
Guilds of Ravnica Brews, pt. 3 – Temur Ramp
Here’s a deck by Todd Anderson, which does it’s best to kill the opponent with Fight with Fire copied with Primal Wellspring. So, what if we go deeper and add some green ramp.