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“I Can’t Believe This Mishmash Actually Worked!”

Saturday, January 28, 2012.

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I went into the deck building phase, mentally reciting how I remembered the BREAD mantra: Bombs/Rares, Elimination/Evasion, Attackers/Advantage, Defense/Dudes. Opening three packs of Innistrad made me think I should be creating a white-green deck, loaded with white humans and green monsters, going all-out creature offense. Never mind evasion - I’ll just power my way through with green monsters and werewolves if the white weenies get sandbagged.

That’s what I was thinking, until I opened the Dark Ascension packs. One pack gave me Stormkirk Captain. The second gave me Falkenrath Aristocrat. I suddenly had a flashback (pun intended, to those who get it) to my Magic 2012 pre-release, where I let myself go with my instincts and built my deck around a mythic rare. I went 3-1 in that event, which was spectacular in my book. I decided to see if my instincts would serve me well in this tournament as well.

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