HeyJaredWhat If Brews
laa11's musings on brewing in Pioneer and what country music can teach us about brewing
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JED Control (opens the original)
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Author’s Note: I wrote this 4 weeks ago, shortly after the bans. Landfall and Control were the main decks and this deck was good. While in the writing process the meta changed with Spellementals, Dimir, and Dwarves all becoming main players, this deck struggled against those and became bad, so I decided not to publish.But the meta is shifting again and Reality Fracture offers cards that will significantly improve the strategy. So I have decided to publish to get the ideas here out there and I ha
My Top Cards from Reality Fracture (opens the original)
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Reality Fracture is an ode to some of magics most powerful and iconic cards, along with filling out the remaining 5 schools, and this wild jace mechanic…as you might expect that’s a recipe for tons of potential cards to brew with.As usual this will be focused on cards I am interested in brewing with in Standard.Some high level comments:Completing the cycle of slowlands will help the allied pairs, but they will still be meaningfully worse than the enemy pairs because of not having fast lands. All
My top cards from HOB (opens the original)
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The cards I am looking to brew with in Standard from The Hobbit.WhiteBelladonna Took<img alt="Belladonna Took (The Hobbit #4)" class="sizing-normal" height="426.2142857142857" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7Kzr!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,
Marvel Super Heroes in Review (opens the original)
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I wrote up my top cards from Marvel Super Heroes, but never got around to posting the list. Here it is below along with commentary based on my experience playing with and against these cards. Regular font will be anything I wrote before release, italics wrote today with the set out for 6 weeks.WhiteCaptain America, Super Soldier<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sy8r!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media
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