Why I Choose to Blink Andre Segarra February 28, 2025 Modern What’s good, Spirit Squad! Today we’re gonna talk about the Modern format as we get ready for the Regional Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina, and why I’m changing decks only a month before such a big... Read More...
T’is the Season(al B&R) Andre Segarra December 20, 2024 Explorer, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, The Spirit Squad, Uncategorized What's good, Spirit Squad! The December Banned and and Restricted Announcement has come from Wizards of the Coast, and this one is another absolute doozy of an update! To get it out of the way, here's all of... Read More...
(Too) Good Grief! Andre Segarra August 30, 2024 Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, The Spirit Squad What’s good, Spirit Squad! Today we get to celebrate the recent changes to the Banned and Restricted (B&R) list in all of the non-rotating formats! Pretty much everyone predicted that Public Enemy #1, Gr... Read More...
Just Keep Swimming Andre Segarra August 22, 2024 Modern, The Spirit Squad What’s good, Spirit Squad! Today we’re gonna go over a Modern Regional Championship Qualifier (RCQ) I played this weekend, featuring my current favorite Modern deck: Merfolk! Hol’ up. So you didn’t even p... Read More...
No Ban Hammer? Now What? Andre Segarra July 12, 2024 Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, The Spirit Squad What’s good, Spirit Squad! Today we’re going to talk about the Banned & Restricted (B&R) list and its most recent update… or lack thereof. 👀 See, Modern Horizons 3 has dropped and we even got to see ... Read More...
Nadu Kid on the Block Andre Segarra June 20, 2024 Modern, The Spirit Squad What’s good, Spirit Squad! Modern Horizons 3 is finally here! Players, deck brewers, and of course content creators everywhere are messing around with deck ideas. Merfolk got some pretty huge updates and Eld... Read More...
Modern: The Bans and the Fury-less Andre Segarra December 22, 2023 Modern, The Spirit Squad What’s good, Spirit Squad! Today, as promised, we’re gonna talk a bit about the recent update to the Banned and Restricted list. This time the affected cards are Fury and Up the Beanstalk, cards that any Mod... Read More...
Preordain and the Power of Consistency Andre Segarra August 9, 2023 Modern, Pioneer, The Spirit Squad What's good, Spirit Squad! This week we've had one of the most mixed set of reactions to a Banned and Restricted announcements I've seen in a pretty long time. For anyone who isn't aware, there were two chan... Read More...
BAMulet Titan: Turning to the Dark Side to Attack the Metagame! GR_DONKIN July 21, 2023 Decklists, Donkin's Digest, Modern Hi all, Welcome back to another article about Amulet Titan! This time we're going to be spicing it up and talking about an interesting innovation that I've been working on for the past few weeks. The bad n... Read More...
Brewing with LOTR after a short “Reprieve” GR_DONKIN June 22, 2023 Decklists, Donkin's Digest, Modern Hi all, I'm back writing at The Mana Base after a short Reprieve. Sometimes, life takes precedence. Speaking of a reprieve, that is exactly the card I wanted to talk about today. Reprieve is a card from the n... Read More...
