Just how useful are cards that only affect opponents playing a specific color?
Solve the Equation - The Odds on Color-Hosers
November 14, 2022 by
Benjamin Nicol 
#acid rain, #blue elemental blast, #boil, #carpet of flowers, #choke, #color hate, #color hoser, #Deekah Fractal Theorist, #dromar the banisher, #elephant grass, #faithless looting, #frantic search, #insight, #major teroh, #omen of fire, #reap, #talrand sky summoner, #teferis moat, #thrill of possibility, #tsunami, #urborg tomb of yawgmoth, #veil of summer, #wash out, #yavimaya cradle of growth Read More »
Solve the Equation - Mana Efficiency VS Sequencing
October 24, 2022 by
Benjamin Nicol
A tricky examination at the difficulties of playing on curve.
#budget, #cultivate, #efficiency, #Esika God of the Tree, #farseek, #fetch lands, #Jodah the Unifier, #natures lore, #prairie stream, #ramp, #rampant growth, #ratadrabik of urborg, #reki the history of kamigawa, #sequencing, #shock lands, #sunken hollow, #taplands Read More »
Solve the Equation - The Huge Gap Between 1 and 3 Damage
October 12, 2022 by
Benjamin Nicol
When is a ping not just a ping?
#body of knowledge, #curiosity, #ghyrson starn kelermorph, #hellrider, #niv-mizzet Parun, #pinger, #pinger tribal, #prodigal pyromancer, #prodigal sorcerer, #syr carah the bold, #willbreaker Read More »
Solve the Equation - Leveraging your Commander ToolKit
September 27, 2022 by
Benjamin Nicol
Are you using Advanced Filters? Clever Scryfall searches? Benjamin discusses his brewing technique.
#aethersquall ancient, #aetherstorm roc, #atraxa praetors voice, #demon of dark schemes, #edh mana base, #energy, #Evolution Sage, #four-color, #Grateful Apparition, #peema aether-seer, #proliferate, #Scryfall, #winding constrictor Read More »
Solve the Equation – How to Tell if a Strategy Has Enough Support by Using Deck Templates
September 13, 2022 by
Benjamin Nicol
Benjamin uses templates to help explore the viability of a brand new deck archetype!
#anointed procession, #azusa lost but seeking, #crop rotation, #deserts, #dryad of the ilysian grove, #edge of autumn, #felidar retreat, #Hazezon Shaper of Sand, #hazezon tamar, #Hour of Promise, #Jinnie Fay Jetmir's Second, #knight of new alara, #lovisa coldeyes, #nahiri's lithoforming, #oracle of mul daya, #purphoros god of the forge, #ruin ghost, #scapeshift, #Scavenger Grounds, #scute swarm, #shefet monitor Read More »
Solve the Equation – Choosing and Using Your Interaction
August 23, 2022 by
Benjamin Nicol
Benjamin examines when and when NOT to use your removal spells!
#arcane denial, #brainstorm, #chaos warp, #dovin's veto, #feed the swarm, #omnath locus of creation, #path to exile, #ponder, #preordain, #swords to plowshares, #threat assessment, #Uro titan of nature's wrath, #vandalblast Read More »
Solve the Equation – Finding Creature Type Diversity for Volo Decks
August 10, 2022 by
Benjamin Nicol
A quick guide to the Guide of Monsters!
#acidic slime, #burnished hart, #craterhoof behemoth, #dryad of the ilysian grove, #mind flayer, #mulldrifter, #ornithopter of paradise, #pathbreaker ibex, #reef worm, #regal behemoth, #scute swarm, #spark double, #sylvan caryatid, #volo guide to monsters, #Volo Itinerant Scholar, #wandering archaic Read More »
Solve the Equation – Does Size Matter?
July 26, 2022 by
Benjamin Nicol
Lurrus just found a few new friends... or should we say, Friends Forever?
#blood artist, #charming prince, #clues, #cruel celebrant, #dockside extortionist, #esper sentinel, #lurrus of the dream-den, #mistmeadow witch, #phantasmal image, #reckless fireweaver, #rise and shine, #sage of lat-nam, #thassa's oracle, #the meathook massacre, #time sieve Read More »
Solve the Equation – The Math of Burn in Commander
June 28, 2022 by
Benjamin Nicol
Benjamin breaks down the best approach for Dragon's Approach!
#balefire dragon, #dragon mage, #dragon's approach, #drakuseth maw of flames, #knollspine dragon, #lightning bolt, #locket of yesterdays, #mizzixs mastery, #obosh the preypiercer, #ruby medallion, #terror of the peaks, #thrumming stone Read More »
Solve the Equation – Scrying Your Way to a Discount
June 14, 2022 by
Benjamin Nicol
With a little math and a lot of scry, this planeswalker powers out some truly enormous spells!
#aminatou's augury, #approach of the second sun, #augury owl, #cryptic annelid, #devout invocation, #dig through time, #diviner's portent, #dusk // dawn, #eligeth crossroads augur, #elminster, #faerie seer, #hour of reckoning, #jaces sanctum, #netherese puzzle-ward, #preordain, #sea gate restoration, #sephara sky's blade, #serum visions, #storm herd, #temporal mastery, #terminus, #ugins insight Read More »