

My first game, I sat down against a friend who was playing your bog-standard Black-Green Delirium deck, with your Flayers traversing and your Spiders spawning and all that jazz. I decided to have fun, and as the whole point of Kaladesh was to be an inventor, I wanted to make a mono- Kaladesh Johnny deck that was single-minded in its focus: all Thopters, all the time, built around the wonderful energy engine of Whirler Virtuoso, Decoction Module, and Panharmonicon. Don't believe the hype-especially not at FNM or Standard Showdown. Pros will tell you Standard is reduced to White-Blue Flash and Black-Green Delirium. So don't be afraid to get your own cool deck ideas out there.
#La quintaesencia cadiz update
Most people have a favorite deck that they update bit by bit over time, or they have cool brews they tune from week to week. The truth is that at your local store, most people don't play the deck that won last week's Grand Prix or Open. My friend went 3-1 with Bant Panharmonicon Combo and won a lot of games with infinite Eldrazi Scions. Just today I played against two different Blue-Black Metallurgic Summonings Control decks, including one that cast Saheeli's Artistry on its own Torrential Gearhulk with Metallurgic Summonings in play, and yeah, I didn't win that game. On the ground, people play all sorts of different things. If you're nervous about taking this deck-or even your own brew!-to Standard Showdown or Friday Night Magic, don't be. But at the local level, the metagame remains diverse enough that decks like this perform just fine. The overall consensus seems to be that midrange-biased red-white decks like this aren't viable against white-blue flash decks, which might be true in large, high-level tournaments. This promotion is really fun, and I can't wait to play again next week!" "I finished with a 2-1 record, losing to the very fast Black-Red Madness deck. Here are just a few things people wrote while sending in their decklists:

I read today in an article in El País that Japan may well even come out of this tragedy stronger than before, just the same as it did after the previous worst earthquake there in the 30’s and after the Hiroshima atom bomb attack at the end of the Second World War.

All the world’s eyes are on the Nippon nation right now. The death toll is unknown but probably over 10.000 and of course many people are missing or feared dead. Worst of all are the threats of explosions of some of their nuclear power stations. Despite Japan being the 3rd biggest economy in the world and the best country for an earthquake to happen (because they are so prepared) it has caused devastation and havoc. The magnitude of the quake was 8.9, probably the highest to ever hit Japan which lies in the most seismic part of the world. On Friday morning, the world woke up to the news of a terrible earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan.
