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Jar Jar Binks – Ultimate Disciple of the Force

Mesa no know why mesa do the things mesa do

The Challenge: So Max asked me to take a “less than beloved” character and try to turn him into something any role-player would actually consider a valuable member of a story… valuable enough to maybe want to play. Basically, go back … Continue reading

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Budget building to a specific card: Best of 3 smackdown

VS I set down to test the decks I’d built for the Black Cat and Laboratory Maniac for: The Budget Building to a Specific Card Challenge Armed with MTG Deck Builder and a couple of browsers (to prevent cross pollination … Continue reading

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Budget building to a specific card: Deck 2 – Laboratory Maniac

Part 2 of Squaring off in a classic deck-building battle royale

Continuing our discussion of an evening where I forced myself to create a deck around a given card, we come now to Laboratory Maniac. Recall that the previous deck we built in this exercise was geared for removing cards from … Continue reading

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Budget building to a specific card: Deck 1 – Black Cat

Part 1 of Squaring off in a classic deck-building battle royale

My first task in the challenge of forcing myself to build a viable deck with a focus on the card or mechanics of a specific card brought the Black Cat card to my plate. I really like this card concept … Continue reading

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Budget building to a specific card: The overview

The other evening, I was thinking about how much I enjoy the challenge of building interesting decks for Magic: the Gathering. While I prefer to create completely new (to me) decks that harness unexpected combinations to beat opponents in an … Continue reading

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