🔥 Here are the prizes for the ENTIRE European Premodern Masters weekend, courtesy of our favourite vendor, Willybizarre!
It’s happening THIS WEEK! There’s still time to join the Premodern party in Valencia! 🐉🏆
A few weeks ago I made a Moneyball Black deck in the style of the pre-alpha playtest cards, partially as a response to zeta set release, and I got really carried away in sourcing and laying out the public domain art and making the design of each card. I had a lot of fun playing with how the choice of art changes or reinforces the feeling of the card, and hiding small references etc. and it got me excited to do it again. I pretty much immediately started thinking about what other decks had the kind of punk swagger that would mesh with the playtest style.
Last time it was "Moneyball Black"
https://omegaset.itch.io/moneyballblack
This time it's "Sligh/Burn/Red Deck Wins"
https://omegaset.itch.io/sligh
Since then I got a lot of positive feedback about my MBB set, and wizards made positive moves by announcing a print to demand rerun of the zeta release, which is great for regular players, and I've been obsessing over some other card ideas in my spare time so I decided to run it back again for another of my favorite decks, Sligh.
This isn't a ready made deck, it's a collection of 36 red cards artifacts and lands which can be used to build a multitude of permutations of the deck and its sideboard. I can't claim it's EVERY card in mono-red Sligh, but it covers most of the top decks as well as some wildcard options.
You can download and print it for free over at itch.io in both regular and inverted treatments. Theres also more info on the project over there so I'm not yapping too much here:
I hope you have as much fun looking at these cards as I had designing them. And please lmk if you have any questions or comments, I take the feedback to heart.
link to top 8
Instagram is a terrible place for a decklist. You can’t search it, you can’t copy it and you can’t click a card. So in June I started a small website to give the lists a proper home.
Then I kept adding things. Four months later it looks like this:
https://premodernchronicles.com
What’s on it right now:
101 tournament lists from 85 events in 19 countries: winners, top 8s and Magic Online league 5–0s. Every list has a “Test hand” button (draw seven, mulligan, keep drawing) and a text export.
Old frames only. Every card is shown in an old-frame printing, never a modern reprint. That was rule number one.
26 deck guides, from Stiflenought to BW Control. Each has the game plan, mulligans, a sideboard plan, a budget version and matchup notes against the rest of the field. Where a win rate is quoted, it comes from MTGDecks and the sample size is next to it.
Prices.
Since 28 July the site saves the price of every card once a day, Cardmarket and TCGplayer, per old-frame printing, foils included. Each card has a chart, and there is a list of what moved in the last day, week and month.
Spicy Brews:
15 unusual lists, each with a write-up of how it actually wins. 232-card Battle of Wits, Didgeridoo Minotaurs, Squirrels with four Gaea’s Cradle.
The banlist with the reason for each of the 33 cards, and a budget page that prices the cheapest competitive decks at today’s prices.
What it is not: a replacement for TCDecks or MTGDecks. They have far more lists; I have a hand-picked hundred plus the guides and prices. The tier list is my own read of the results, checked against the MTGDecks numbers once a month, so feel free to tell me it’s wrong.
It’s free, no ads, no account. I build it in my spare time and it runs on one small server.
I’d love to hear your feedback, ideas and suggestions—whether that’s a feature you’d use, a deck you’d like covered, something that’s missing or something that just doesn’t work well. I’m still adding to the site, so there’s plenty of room to shape where it goes.
And if you run events, feel free to send me your top 8 lists. I’d be happy to add them.
Have a look around and let me know what you think.
Thanks for reading!