#precon

I’ll have to reschedule my calendar (I spent a bit of time mapping out the rest of my month) and will do a proper post about these, but now just a quick note as those is pretty exciting. Digital or not. From the Tuesday announcement here. Two standard decks – one more casual the other spikier – and three Brawl decks.

As part of Magic Online’s revamped efforts to encourage players to try the service they are giving new accounts enough new cards to make five reasonable decks in five different formats. My previous post in this series detailed those. Then, for a fairly nominal charge of just $5 there is an Account Upgrade Kit with over 5000 extra cards and most importantly – for precon geeks, at least – twenty…

Been a while since I did a post mucking about with precon decklists, so I thought I’d smash together something about smashing together two of the same deck. This is a time and tested way to take a stock off-the-shelf deck and give it a bit more oomph for kitchen table play. What better way to quickly and easily strengthen the themes and core strategy of a deck than getting extra copies of what is…

So it’s that delightful time of the year month where we get smashed over the head with spoilers for a new Magic set. Usually, other than scanning for Premodern reprints, I just ignore these. Which I suspect is pretty good for my sanity. How do Magic players who aren’t into weird non-official closed formats and stock 60 card precon lists cope with all this? This time is different. This time we…