Road to Gencon Part one: Competitive deck building.

Today I start my first article on helping players prepare for Gencon.  The hope is that both new players showing up, and veterans of UFS and Gencon itself will be able to take away at least something from this article.

Alright, you've bought your badge, gotten your hotel room with your friends.  Now for the most important step, what do I play?!  There are many ways to approach this question and I'm going to go through them as best I can.

A deck I won't be playing for California and why

For the past two months I have been utterly demoralizing my local playgroup with the following stack of cards, and up until the banning of Mourning the Lost it was my go to deck for the Scotts Valley PTC:

Deck Don’t Matter #2

My next two segments of Deck Don’t Matter are focusing on the newly designed/reformatted extended format.  The removal of power errata in that format has cause quite a change up in the character selection for the format.  A character that wasn’t even on my radar for extended a few months ago is now back in the scene and I think she is ready to swing for the fences.