Back in the day, Preconstructed Decks had some weird naming conventions. I mean, “Max Attax” or “Trounce-O-Matic” are prime examples for names that make me scratch my head; and they are from opposite sides of the spectrum, since “Max Attax” clearly goes a beatdown route while “Trounce-O-Matic” does not give me anything to work with at all. Now, Intro Packs are more lazy in general, with random vanilla creatures being included all the time, the first few Intro Packs not even reaching sixty cards to work with, and, as is the case in this article, the deck designers not even coming up with something witty for a name. “Battle Cries” introduces the Battle Cry keyword in a White-Red deck, meaning that this is an Aggro deck at heart. As you will see, there is certainly something going on here, but while there are fleeting moments of brilliance there is still lots of head scratching going on here.

Do you hate artifacts? Do you want to get rid of the grey menace where it might pop up? Are you considering putting senseless amounts of artifact removal into your deck just in case you might encounter something that you can hit with those cards? Well, good news, because WotC made the Intro Pack for your: “Relic Breaker” is a Red-Green deck that works with the destruction of artifacts, both the opposing ones and your own. Now, I would hardly call the idea of having too much artifact removal a strategy, but the deck designers apparently came to a different conclusion. So, let us see what this deck is supposed to do.

I am a simple man when it comes to color combinations in Magic the Gathering. I see Black-Green, I like the deck since I do think that the entire graveyard-filling theme this combo normally goes for is pretty cool to play. However, while “Phyrexian Poison” is a Black-Green deck, it does take a somewhat different direction than your usual Golgari deck; and the name might give you a hint. It is Infect time, placing poison counters on the opponent. This is a crazy strong mechanic as you will see down in the article, so let us see what the deckbuilders managed to do with a deck idea that should honestly built itself.

Another Wednesday, another Intro Pack to look at. This time, we have one of the most flavorful creature types of Mirrodin being featured in form of the small artifact servant race called the Myr. They are mostly known to be small creatures and often associated with producing mana, but WotC definitely gave those guys some tools to make an interesting deck in general. Now, whether “Myr of Mirrodin”, this week’s deck, actually manages to rise to the occasion remains to be seen. However, seeing that this deck is listed as being mono-White, there is definitely something interesting hiding in the box. Let’s find out more in the article below.