Deep Analysis – Capitalizing on a Lack of Playtesting

Playtesting in the current Extended metagame is a nightmare task. You sleeve your seventy-five select, and then face ten, twenty, thirty possible gauntlet decks with pedigree and power. It’s so difficult to cover all the bases that the sane player concentrates on those decks he feels likely to make up the upper tier of the field. Today’s Deep Analysis posits the idea that, in order to pick up valuable percentages, it may be wise to run with once-popular fringe strategies. After all, not many folk will have tested the matchup…

Dredge was the most powerful deck at Pro Tour: Valencia, and remained the most powerful coming into the PTQ season. It routinely kills on turn 2, and…

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