#draw go

Over the past twenty five (25) years magic has gone through many significant changes. I've only been around to witness about eight (8) years of the games metamorphosis but even that has been enough to witness major shifts, like pulling power away from non-permanent cards and shifting to a more creature oriented gameplay meta.

In spite of many changes to how the colors work and how they execute their plans I've seen one thing that seems to stay the same over the years, the impression of the colors identity among the player base.

With this article series I plan to dissect the identity each color has gained in the community over the years and attempt to pick those views apart using the modern game designs. Hopefully you will see the joys you can find within each color and we will be able to show the community why we love our colors for so much more than what they think it is.

If you are still reading this I want to say thank you. These pieces will take some time and life likes to interfere with my concentration on this blog. I greatly appreciate your interest in this endeavor we're taking on our free time. I can't wait to see how you all view these pieces. Thank you again for everything.

I can’t remember if I’ve done the obligatory ADHD outing of myself thing yet, but if you are wondering why I seem to have all of a sudden developed a hyperfixation on something very specific… it could be that. Though this whole project of mine is pretty specific within an absolutely tiny niche so I guess 1) how different is this to my standard operating procedure anyway and 2) this no doubt was…

Polish's Deck Tech: Douchebag Blue - How not to make friends

Do you want to be that one guy? You know, that ONE guy? No, not the weird guy with body odor in the corner of the FNM, but the jackass no one wants to play with? Then you've come to the right deck tech tech!

For those of you that didn't know, this deck was originally piloted by an OG Pro-Magic player named Randy Buehler. He might be the guy responsible for Counterspell never seeing print in the base set EVER AGAIN. For good reasons of course. With the main deck packing in with 21 types of countermagic, no average combo deck can go off. Ever.

This deck is completely miserable to play against. There are ways around the deck like an extremely aggressive aggro deck, but in the kitchen table arena, this thing ruins hopes, dreams and will probably kidnap your pet dog too. Let me pull up an example of what recently happened at my friend's house a few days ago:

Me: So what deck do you wanna play test against? Karen: *flipping through my box* Oh how about this Mill deck? Me: Umm, that's not a mill deck... That's my old "Draw-Go" deck... Karen: What's "Draw-Go"? Me: Exactly what it sounds like. It's not really fun to play against. Karen: Well it's just a Blue deck right? Me: Yes... Karen: If it doesn't have delver, I'm game! Me: ... Turn 1: Island, GO Karen: Plains, Steppe Lynx Me: Tap, Force Spike. Karen: *Reads card* ... Karen: Ehh. Turn 2: Island, GO Karen: Plains, Thalia, Guardian of Thraben Me: Tap 2, Counterspell... Karen: (◎_◎;) ... Turn 9: Island, GO Karen: Tap 5, Baneslayer Angel Me: Tap 5, Desertion Karen: ... *reads card* Karen: (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ Me: ... Karen: Oblivion Ring on Baneslayer Me: Tap, Force Spike... Karen: (╯°Д°）╯︵/(.□ . \)

Main Deck: 3 Rainbow Efreet 4 Counterspell 4 Dismiss 2 Desertion 3 Forbid 4 Force Spike 4 Impulse 3 Mana Leak 4 Nevinyrral's Disk 4 Whispers of the Muse 16 Island 4 Quicksand 4 Stalking Stones Sideboard: 2 Capsize 2 Unsummon 4 Hydroblast 4 Sea Sprite 3 Energy Flux

The original list has been slightly altered for old playgroups. The deck had no answers to Thrun, so I had to up the Rainbows up to 3 for chump blocking. Also, Unsummons against infect decks and Energy Flux against Affinity. Keep in mind, I kept the cardpool during the same Standard year, so there was no access to Urza's block yet.

I never further upgraded the deck past Urza's block simply because I was out priced out of the Standard format (including my WW deck). I eventually tried Hatred decks into extended, but shortly quit MTG when Masque block ended. Mercadian Masques block was the reason why I quit Magic back then, sad to say.