Early in my magic youth I was heavily drawn to the color black. I'm not even sure exactly why. I just knew it was color than the other colors. My first deck I actually thought of as decent (by my standards then at least, it looks like a pile now) was a mono black deck. It was an aggro control deck but not because I planned it that way. I really just threw every black card I thought was cool into it and tried to trim it down as much as possible.

This week I'm going to look at what will leave in the standard rotation and how that affects the decks out there then look at what new cards are coming in then I'm going to build a new deck using 9th Edition

Last week I looked at the tier 1 decks of Standard. This week I'll be looking at the lower tiers.

For the next few articles I'll be looking at the Standard environment and what the top decks are as well as a few of the more roguish decks.

Its story time. In this article I'm going to go over my history as a magic player/deck builder and some of the most important decks I've built.

This week I'll be going over the history of Mono Black Control and a bunch of different versions from various formats.

In addition to free drafting the Saviors Beta on Magic Online provided me with the cards to play around with a few constructed formats. I was never able to really make anything tournament worthy in Standard or Online Extended but I did manage to make a pretty decent Block Constructed deck.

I can say without a doubt that this is the best multiplayer deck I have ever built. It wins more often than not when I play it which actually is a much bigger feat in multiplayer.

Today's article is all about the red deck. I'll go though the various different types of red decks and the differences between them.

I'm going to take a look at my Type 3 Stompy deck and explain each of the card choices and some of the cards that were in earlier versions but eventually got cut as well as cards that might be in the deck if I owned any.