MTG Jeff: Gutter Zombies – Not Your Mother’s Zombie Deck MTG JEFF February 2, 2019 Decklists, MTG Arena, Standard Skeletons & Zombies are basically all Zombies in this deck. Death Baron is such a good card when we have so many good Skeletons & Zombies in Standard. The only issue this deck has is not drawing a Death... Read More...
Modern Musings: Decks to Play for GP Vegas Michael Shapiro May 28, 2018 Modern Musings 1 Hey everyone! Welcome to another Modern Musings! Today we are going to talk about what decks I think you should play walking into the Modern portion of GP Vegas. The State of Modern Modern has seen some pret... Read More...
Salt Road Patrol: Blast From the Past Chris Cardwell January 31, 2017 Salt Road Patrol (It's a slow day here at The Mana Base so we figured we'd rewind to last year and remember one of the more memorable articles of 2016. If you haven't read it yet be sure to check it out, and if you have read it... Read More...
Rants of Valakut: Completely Mana Screwed Ben Iverach-Brereton January 9, 2017 Rants of Valakut 2 We've all been there. You draw your opening hand, full of spells and potential, but you realize to your dismay that there are no lands. We call it getting mana screwed, and it sucks, but depending on your deck,... Read More...
Why We Play: Timmy Steven Hamonic November 22, 2016 Why We Play We’ve done a lot of analysis of what formats provide good value- but not a lot about who those formats are good for. The next few episodes I’m going to cover Player Archetypes, and delve into some of the forma... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Oona’s Grace Ben Iverach-Brereton November 14, 2016 Rants of Valakut When I first saw Oona's Grace I was intrigued. Here was an Instant that drew a card and could be recast multiple times from my graveyard by discarding a land and paying its casting cost again; an old ability ca... Read More...
Salt Road Patrol: Why Are All Burn Players Alike? Chris Cardwell November 6, 2016 Salt Road Patrol Hey all, welcome back to another episode of the Salt Road Patrol. After just coming off 5k weekend hosted by Fusion Gaming, I’ve got a lot of fresh salt-inducing topics to talk about, mostly relating to things ... Read More...
The MetaWorker: Episode 2 — Focus Dralnu!, Focus! James LaPage November 2, 2016 The Metaworker For today’s installment of The Metaworker, I’ll be dealing with one of the most common pitfalls of Commander deck construction – lack of focus. Quite often a lack of focus results from a lack of planning before... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Episode 2 Ben Iverach-Brereton November 1, 2016 Rants of Valakut Several years ago, some co-workers and I took part in a deck building challenge: to build 'Peasant' Commander decks that contained no Rare or Mythic Rare cards. This rarity restriction included the Legendary Cr... Read More...
Fusion Modern 1K: Top 8 Bios The Mana Base October 30, 2016 1st Place: Cris Currie Deck Name: RW Combos Record: 4-0-1 Anything you would change? Cut 2 plains and 2 mountains for 4 Arid Mesa's 2nd Place: Derek Ketcheson Deck: Infect Record: 3-2 Any... Read More...
