What Crystal Witness Does to MD5 Constructed

Like the ConTroll decks of Urza Block, this looks like a really, really good draft deck. I can almost hear someone walking by Cirigliano during a match and shouting,”You got three Crystal Shards? What scrub was passing to you!” When you’re talking Constructed, however, this deck seems to violate the Zvi maxim against bringing a knife to a gunfight. So why is this deck winning?

In my last article I discussed briefly how profoundly Matteo Cirigliano shook up the MD5 metagame, but I think it will take a while before it really…

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