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What was deck of the day is not deck of the week. Or it will be, anyway. This week's deck comes from Abe Sargent over at StarCityGames and is all about Dramatic Entrance and lots of green goodness. Check reading to see the decklist ...

Welcome back to We Make The Set, the card-creation game where we, the community, make a full set, one card at a time! Welcome to Round 53 in which we vote for the last round's cards and submit a card for the current round. Keep reading to find out the task for this round. I'll give you a hint, it involves creating something that attaches to a creature ...

This is a quick reminder about this month's MCC Contest, hosted by JakeKessler. MCC stands for Monthly Card Contest. This month's challenge involves creating a card (including the image) of a scheme card. Schemes are evil oversized cards from Archenemy. There are a few examples of these in the submission thread, found here. You can find the scheme template for Magic Set Editor here. You can also check out existing Archenemy cards by clicking here ...

Hey guys, welcome to First Impressions! I'm alaxam and I'll be your guide through the Avacyn Restored suite of Black cards. Let's jump right in. ...

Yikes! Two articles from Streetz in one week! Thank God these are First Impressions articles, or else I'd be in trouble. You see, the beauty of this article series is that you talk about whatever comes to mind when you look at a card. It truly has to be your first impression of it. I like to digress to other cards that are like it or that might combo with it, but overall it's just that: a first impression. So without further ado, I bring your Avacyn Restored: Red! ...

The blue cards of Avacyn Restored get the once over in this First Impressions review. I'll be coming at it from a Casual player's point of view, which should include Pauper, Commander, and multiplayer formats.

I don't get any Angels or Demons to review, but I get a few miracles and several soulbond creatures. Soulbond vexes me, as it's rules are not clear from the card text, but it is a powerful and fun mechanic once you get the hang of it. The important thing to remember is that a creature can be paired with only one other creature, and once paired, that bond is only broken when you lose control of one of the paired creatures (including it leaving the battlefield) ...

Welcome back to We Make The Set, the card-creation game where we, the community, make a full set, one card at a time! Current Round: French Vanilla Redux ...

In this round, you get to vote for the last round of cards from a wildcard round. And you get to pick one of the wild cards from rounds 46-50 and suggest it for this round. Feel free to discuss it, vote for it and suggest a card in this thread. The original post information is below as well ...