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Stoic, giant, indestructible angels who make everything you control indestructible. Demons with hooks for hands that gain you life while having an activated ability that costs your life. Yep, this is a casual focused set indeed! With the Avacyn Restored set currently available for sale there is a whole slew of new casual cards which are begging to find their way into your current casual decks!

Going Mad - Soulbonding So Avacyn Restored brought us Angels and Demons and new Planeswalkers, and Miracles (and the verb: Miracling), and tons of really really bad black cards ... but that's not all. Now you can have your creatures get MARRIED!!!! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL!!!! Wizards calls it Soulbond, but we know what it really is.

Madison Standard Report with Frites Last week I mentioned discussing my Legacy deck this week for the SCG Open in Madison. After playing the open it was painfully obvious I needed to reflect on my legacy deck and how I was playing it. As a result I’m going to put that article off for another week so I have some time to contemplate my matches and the way I’m playing the deck before I write about it.

Reanimating Standard with Avacyn Restored Last week I published a deck list that I thought I would definitely be playing in the next SCG Open. Then I stumbled on the deck list I’m going to show off today. This week I have a deck for you that I’m really excited about. Control decks and combo decks have always been my preferred archetypes for tournament play. I really enjoy the options that control gives me at any given time (particularly with planeswalkers) and I really like decks with a lot of inherent power such that combo provides.

Going Mad - Avacyn's Miracles Wizards has thrown us another interesting ability that is hard to gauge the value of. Are miracles trash in constructed? Another powerful in limited but weak in constructed mechanic? Level Up 2? Each card is its own entity here so we need to look at them one at a time.

Table(r) Talk: The High Tide History and Walkthrough Last time I wrote I mentioned that I would be writing an article about the High Tide/Time Spiral deck for Legacy. In order to do so I’m going to give history of the deck's beginnings and show the evolution of this style of deck throughout Magic’s history. First, let’s take a trip in the way back machine to the 1998-1999 season just after the release of Urza’s Saga, where the deck first started to see play as a Standard deck.

Going Mad - Avacyn Restored pt. 2 Wizards has done it. They've opened Pandora's Box and there is virtually no going back. For years we've seen cards in previews and spoilers and hypothesized about their impact on Standard, Extended (now Modern), Legacy, and occasionally even Vintage. We've watched our worst fears fail to materialize and we've seen Hidden Horrors emerge from the shadows to take us all by surprise. We've casually thrown around the words "broken" or "format warping" or "format defining" like the terms are easy to define and the labels are easy to apply. I can't think of a card as game-changing as the one below. It's going to change the game in a number of ways that I haven't even thought of yet...and I've been thinking about it alot.

Over/Under - Huntmaster of the Fells In my last Over/Under article, I talked about how Sorin, Lord of Innistrad was one of the most over-hyped cards that had come out in a long time and initially I heard an outcry from the Magic community about my prediction that his price would plummet and he would not be the most expensive card in Dark Ascension set. Well after a couple months and a lot of big tournament results, his price has in fact dropped, making him the second most expensive card in the set behind the most played of the mythic rares, Huntmaster of the Fells, a spot that I feel he deserves since only recently have Standard decks started to include him. Whereas Huntmaster has not only seen tons of play since the set's release, but is still involved as an intricate part of some of the strongest decks hitting the tournament scene today. In light of this I thought I would explore just how good this werewolf really is.

Clark Ritual: Affording Legacy So you want to play Legacy. I can see why, Legacy is a format that allows us to play with the most powerful cards throughout Magic's history. It provides a extremely competitive environment that is still friendly and fun. It's diverse enough that everyone can find a deck that appeals to them. It can also be one of the cheapest formats out there.

Going Mad - Avacyn Restored pt. 1 So Liliana of the Veil cast a spell that forced Thalia, Guardian of Thraben to choose between busting open the Helvault and saving her comrades. She chose her comrades, accidentally saving the entire Plane of Innistrad from its slow, werewolfy death.