Through all the twists and turns of life, I've been lucky enough to still be friends with Ben. Not only is he a great person, but he's also wicked good at playing Magic. We've been casting spells and pushing creatures into the red zone together for more than 20 years now!
So, when the opportunity came up to face off against Ben with a couple of my Old School decks, I jumped at the chance. The way he was talking, I think he may have caught the Old School bug. I thought I would fan the flames.
Nothing fans the flames like a little friendly competition.
So, I suited us both up with decks that I thought would match up nicely. The first deck is a UB Robots deck that ramps out artifact creatures, uses the old man to draw some cards, and has both the renamimation and coffin package. When it does it's thing, it's glorious. The second deck is a RB Troll Disco deck with a parfait variation, dropping Vices, Mines, Orbs, and Barriers. A burn and discard variant is probably objectively better, but this version has more reach.
I can't get over how much I like robots in MTG.
There's also something dirty and satisfying about one-sided Orbing people with Relic Barrier.
We played a dozen-or-so games over a couple of hours, mostly going back and forth. There's enough variance in Old School that mashing reasonably good decks into one another creates enjoyable games more often than not.
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| The life counter shows 20, but in reality Ben swung in for lethal with the Troll and the Factory the turn before I would have Mirrored life totals with him and started putting the Trike in the coffin. |
Ben already started buylisting cards to get into Old School. I can't wait to see what he comes up with. Knowing Ben, I'm in for a savage beating. And I'm looking forward to it!
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