Vintage Cube Archetypes #2. Green Ramp

Vintage Cube Archetypes #2. Green Ramp

Hello everyone. Today I’m bringing you guys part 2 in my Vintage Cube overview. Today we are looking at the green ramp archetype.

If you missed part 1 of this series you can find it here:

Vintage Cube: Archetypes #1. Splinter Twin.

The green ramp deck is one of the most fun decks to play in Vintage Cube. Slamming fatties and making massive amounts of mana is very fun for a lot of people. So without further ado lets take a look at it.

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Death’s Shadow Aggro Overview

DEATH’S SHADOW AGGRO OVERVIEW

Welcome to my guide on the basics of the Modern Deck Death’s Shadow Jund (DSJ), commonly referred to as Death’s Shadow Aggro (DSA).

Note: For the purpose of this guide I will often call the deck Death’s Shadow Aggro or DSA for short.

This guide is aimed at people who have little to no experience with Death’s Shadow Aggro and are looking to get a grounding of the basic functions of how Death’s Shadow Aggro functions.

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Pauper Overview

PAUPER OVERVIEW

What is Pauper?

Pauper is a popular constructed format that officially, is only played on Magic: The Gathering Online (MTGO). That said Paper Pauper communities exist around the world and there are frequent Paper Pauper events and tournaments.

Pauper is an eternal format. The cards do not rotate out of the format and it uses cards from every set and product released on MTGO.

What makes Pauper very different from other eternal formats is that the only cards that are legal are cards that have been printed at the common rarity. No mythics, no rares, no uncommons are permitted to be used in Pauper.

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How To Not Waste Your Money In Magic:The Gathering

HOW NOT TO WASTE YOUR MONEY IN MAGIC: THE GATHERING

When getting into Magic:The Gathering I personally, along with many others, have spunked hundred of dollars on crap that I didn’t need to and would not have done so if I had got into the game knowing what I know now.

Magic: The Gathering is a great but expensive game that requires you to be sensible and to use reason when looking at what to spend your money on.

In this article I am going to give you 5 bits of advice which will allow you spend your money more effectively and that will help save you money in the long run.

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How To Make Standard Great Again

HOW TO MAKE STANDARD GREAT AGAIN

I have never seen a company ignore its own blueprint for success more so than Wizards of the Coast. Here we have a company that gets it so right with half of the things they do and so wrong with the other half. Modern is excellent, Pauper is in a great place, Commander is thriving  yet the blueprint that has been applied to make these formats great goes out the window for Standard. 

Standard Is A Mess

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