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Apparently, last week’s Magical Hack, Dredging Up The Past, was quite a popular read… apparently Bridge / Dredge strategies had somehow evaded the public eye. With a little bit of Standard play under our belt, I presented a deck apparently most people hadn’t seen. With a full weekend of sanctioned Standard play under our belts, we’ve got quite a bit more to look at… both StarCityGames.com $1000 Standard tournament, and the German Regional Qualifiers.

…We’re also short on White, but then we’re favoring Damnation over Wrath of God so as not to…

…Maybe you just pay like $1 for a 3 mana Wrath of God that you can play around and try…

…Used my Negator to block his Hidden Gibbons and he went Wrath of God on me! Ouch! I managed to…

You can admit it. You’ve designed a card or two. Thinking about combo engines, or ways to utilize cards, you’ve glanced at cards your opponents have, then idly speculated about cards that would interact. Magic is a game about the way things interact, so it’s natural that after some time playing, you find yourself exploring those interactions…

…going to be leaning away from spells like Wrath of God and Counterspell and leaning more on creatures like Adarkar…

…but nothing that approximated Wrath of God or Mutilate in its brutality. Well, those days of comfort for your three…

Monday, January 4th – With yesterday’s StarCityGames.com Legacy Open in Los Angeles fresh on our minds, Stephen Menendian takes a fresh look at the CounterTop archetype for Legacy play. Using his excellent Five-Step construction process, he rebuilds the deck for 2010, and runs it through a local tournament to a promising result…

…He plays Wrath of God and then Grindstone. I play Goyf, but he, with one other card in hand, plays…

…Used my Negator to block his Hidden Gibbons and he went Wrath of God on me! Ouch! I managed to…

…Consider Wrath of God or Oblivion Stone. The decks that use those usually include decks that are just looking for…

Friday, September 11th – Everyone is getting excited about the forthcoming Zendikar set, so I will deliberately ignore it and talk about something else instead. Trust me, this is a good thing. I don’t exactly have good form for when it comes to rating new cards (aside from Greater Gargadon).

…In the pre-M10 environment I knew the Primalcrux deck was vulnerable to mass sweepers like Wrath of God, but…

The usual slew of analyzing cards for the most ancient format – and some intriguing ideas that may change the slant of some classic T1 decks!

…Wrath of God is rarely played in Type I, for example, so don’t start trading for Breaking Point. Besides…

The Limited Lover’s fan favorite is back, this time covering the many colors of Ravnica in all its sealed deck goodness.

…Please God, pull the plug. I’m hardly being fair starting with the above rectum of a card. There are…

Once again, Abe delves into his box of crappy rares, picking five crappy cards to build five crazy decks! Any normal columnist would just build an Atog deck when confronted with an Atogatog… But Abe? He has different plans for Atogatog, and Onulet, and even Barl’s Cage!

…It’s my favorite Wrath of God effect in Type Four. I love that you can sometimes clear the board…

…Pauper has known the wrath of these kinds of cards for a long time as well, which is why the…

A while ago I was brainstorming ideas for my column. When I was initially charged with writing this, I was told that all things casual were in my purview. Yay! I can write on tribal, five color, peasant, highlander, set reviews, multiplayer — anything I want! After creating a list of ideas for the column, I decided to ask the readers if you wanted to see anything, and gave a few ideas. One of those ideas was a regular deck doctor entry with a casual look to building good decks…

…Void is solid, but in this deck, I think mass removal would be preferred, like Wrath of God or Damnation…

Kyle spent this past weekend judging at the Texas Regionals tournament, and in this, his first in a weekly series over on the free side of the site, he brings us the lowdown on the Top 8 decklists. He also shares Cedric Phillips’s winning build of Solar Flare, and brings us a huge dose of the usual Sanchez mayhem!

…He attributes his Regionals success to the addition of Quicken, which helped him respond to both Wrath of God and…

Thursday, September 2 – This week, Ghazi Glare tries to dazzle Boss Naya, plus a matchup of the “most hated” decks: Faeries vs. Jund.

…Glare took out the Arashis and the Congregation at Dawns for the Naturalizes, the Wrath of God and the other…

Encouragement about the format, Oscar Tan the Revolutionary, the differences between Vintage and Legacy, a Legacy metagame overview, and even a spec decklist to try and push the envelope of creativity. The latest njx piece has a little something for everybody.

…so of each), with an edge in the post-board games. Unearth was really helpful at recovering from Wrath in…

…I have Hallowed Burial over Wrath of God or any other sweeper mainly for budget reasons. The rest of this…

…Sometimes it was a sorcery (like Wrath of God) that would shake up the game and then go away. Llanowar…

…Sometimes it was a sorcery (like Wrath of God) that would shake up the game and then go away. Llanowar…

I am going to spend most of this week discussing the rather well-known "Highlander" format. I consider this to be a terrific format for casual groups to try, since it solves about three problems at once for many players. But before I do, I want to make a kind but apologetic note about another popular…

…Soul Warden, Congregate, Angelic Chorus), Angelic Renewal, Armageddon, Wrath of God, Cataclysm. Method:<br> The focus here is on getting…

…It uses Fact or Fiction for card-drawing, Powder Keg and Wrath of God for control, and Morphling and Call…

Stalling has been a topic we’ve seen writers adress frequently on these pages, but an in-depth look at the viability of using chess clocks is a new one. That’s exactly what Judge Riesland addresses today, and it might even be a better idea than the skeptics initially thought.

…A player plays Wrath of God. For the amount of time needed for that player to remove his or her…

Thursday, August 6th – Years ago, a player in a Pro Tour tried to name Hunted Wumpus with Meddling Mage. He could not remember the name – the closest he got was this article’s title. Why is that significant? It was because Hunted Wumpus was being played in an Extended format Pro Tour. That would be inconceivable today. The game has changed.

…Mass removal, of course, started with Wrath of God. Back then, mana could be cheaply converted into cards, and cards…

…Ben draws and casts wrath of God. Oh man, all my little guys go back home to the afterlife. Time…

…If Blue/White has a third sweeper it will likely be Wrath of God to play around Meddling Mage. The…

Where did the fun go? With lawyerly precision Bryan Gottlieb finds the flaws that led to a year of Magic design errors and shows a better way forward.

…There was also the infamous “God Book” scandal, where a couple of prominent pros received extended bans after sharing advance…

This is a list of good, solid multiplayer cards – the cards to look for if you don’t have them. Each group starts with really inexpensive cards – generally commons, all available cheaply. Then I throw in a couple slightly more expensive cards towards the end, and finish it up with one or two expensive cards that are nearly always worth it.

…It is amazing in Emperor or teams games, where it can often act as a one-sided Wrath of God…

…Highlights of this deck included dismiss, counter spell, mox diamonds, incinerate, wrath of god, cursed scroll, frenetic efreet, thalakos seer…

…It's worth noting that Purphoros, God of the Forge might be classified as a burn deck and a well…

…Think cards like Explore, Growth Spiral, Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath, and the Tron lands (Urza's Mine, Urza…

…You could always put in another cheap board wipe like Wrath of God or Settle the Wreckage if you still…

…He is holding 3 Wrath of God at the end of the game, but no white mana. Whew! Games: 2…

…In this deck, Moment's Peace was in some cases better at controlling creatures than Wrath of God, such as…

Monday, March 3rd – In this rare Monday outing, Mike Flores performs an exhaustive SWOT analysis on a whopping twelve of the strongest Extended decks in the current metagame. He breaks down each archetype into Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats, providing invaluable insight into the inner workings of these powerful builds. For anyone serious about the current PTQ season, this article is unmissable.

…Moment’s Peace is actually a better card in the format than U/W’s Wrath of God due to…

…Outside of Wrath of God and Damnation, he's practically invincible. Some would argue Shriekmaw defines Standard; if that's…

Brad Nelson, never one to accept the existing decklists, is already plotting his next move! See the deck he has been working with before you take on #SCGCOL tomorrow!

…They will have access to Pharika, God of Affliction and/or enchantment removal,<br> and we will have more removal…

Adrian Sullivan had a pretty strong record in the face of a lot of Eldrazi invading his tournament last weekend! See his process and his incredible build that will undoubtedly put the fun in Modern for you!

…was doing, with a ton of planeswalkers and a ton of Wrath of God effects, was just overwhelming to their…

For the second time in a month, The Ferrett cracks a card pool with Borborygmos in it, and yet again he has to leave that 6/7, trampling, bloodthirsty bad boy in the sideboard in order to build a decent deck. Why? Because Guildpact hates him, that’s why. Oh, and he also asks you all a question on why you read Magic writing.

…I mean, it’s a Wrath of God effect in a format that’s scarce on them, so I’m…

During 1999’s Extended PTQ season, a mistake by his teammate forced Michael Flores to ask the question “Who’s the Beatdown?” Six years later, another Extended format prompts him to re-examine the strategies he advocated in what may be the greatest single Magic article of all time. The Limit of Interactivity challenges Michael’s own conclusions, and, while it categorizes Extended decks into two distinct groups, this time they aren’t “beatdown” and “control.”

…The White cards – Wrath of God, life gaining, and most finishers – are control elements… but *irrelevant* control elements; whereas the…

Romeo stops back by to take a look back at 2004, otherwise known as “the year I got married in a Red Sox jersey and the Sox won the World Series.” On a more related note, he also includes two new rogue decks he’s been fiddling with for the last few months and some advice for the DCI.

…Really, though, many will say, Disciple of the Vault is the culprit. You can’t even cast Wrath of God…

Mirrodin amazes me. Now that I can finally know for sure what it is that I am looking at, I am more eager than ever to tear into the shrink-wrap of a few unopened packs and start building decks. But I need something to test my weirdo decks against! Yeah, I’m looking way ahead all the way to Mirrodin-legal Standard… If Miss Cleo can do it, so can I. But before I can build a rogue deck to beat a metagame, I have to predict what I think that metagame will be….

…face, but you still have to deal with Wrath of God effects. Once the new Day has dawned, all you…

…There are just some days when god loves you. One of the Myers twinkies is playing his red/green/white…

Wednesday, October 1st – Tezzeret the Seeker received a lot of hype for being a Blue, Legacy-playable Mythic rare that powers up one of the most controversial Legacy decks. Kevin has a brand new decklist and a new take on some old gems.

…From Zvi’s list you lose some slower control elements (Wrath of God, Counterspell) and gain a more flexible removal…

…of the rest of the colors, as it is quite clearly the nearest to a true Wrath of God you…

…for a round of stuff so that in multiplayer if Player A casts Wrath of God and you spend your…

Sheldon busts out two Commander decks – Vorosh, the Hunter and Sol’Kanar the Swamp King – and builds the skeleton of a Nicol Bolas deck!

…Fortunately for him, Sean reveals Wrath of<br> God on one of his Wild Evocation triggers and we restart. There…

…For sweepers, I'm running Wrath of God, Fumigate, Rout, and the new *Rivals of Ixalan* card, Slaughter the Strong…

…wrath or a geddon? It's nice for the diversity but really.. how many decks use both? Out of those…

I promise that this review will be as informative as any other review you will read, unless you find one that is somehow better. It’s possible.

…It’s a Wrath of God, or a March of Souls, depending on what you need at the moment. That…