![]() Any other artifact with a similar ability is also called an egg, even if it doesn’t have the word “egg” in its name.įor example, Chromatic Sphere is also an egg. And by eggs, I mean 1-mana artifacts like Skycloud Egg. Cheeri0sīefore I get into the specifics of Cheeri0s, I have to tell you that Magic players love breakfast. Speaking from experience, I can say that nothing is more humiliating than losing to a deck called “Oops! All Spells.” #7. ![]() Turning over the last card, your opponent smirks and then says: “Oops! I guess all my cards are spells.” You ask to examine their graveyard as they kill you a few seconds later. Your opponent casts Balustrade Spy and then turns over the cards of their deck, one by one. Imagine facing Oops! All Spells for the first time. Of course, casting a 4-mana card without any lands in your deck is no easy feat, but the result is more than worth it. Target Thassa's Oracle and you’ve just won the game! Why would you want to do that? Well, all of your copies of Narcomoeba will enter the battlefield, which allows you to cast Dread Return for its flashback cost. Since you don’t play any lands, you mill your entire deck. The goal of Oops! All Spells is to resolve either Balustrade Spy or Undercity Informer. And its unique gameplan may be even stranger than its name. Oops! All Spells is known for playing zero lands, a feat that is nearly impossible to pull off in a competitive Magic environment. Now we’re venturing into more unique territory. Instead, it has an understandable name which gets the theme of the deck across with just enough flavor to still be interesting. Robots, like Burn, doesn’t go over the top with a whacky, nonsensical title. It’s scary and it’s fast, just like a robot. Add a playset of Arcbound Ravagers and Cranial Platings to the mix and you’ve got a hyper-fast deck capable of closing out the game as early as turn 3! ![]() With 0-mana Ornithopters and artifact lands like Seat of the Synod, you barely had to pay any mana for Frogmite and Thoughtcast. After all, that’s what artifact creatures are, right? The name is pretty self-explanatory since most of the creatures in the deck look like robots. You may also know this artifact creature-centric deck as “affinity” after the namesake mana-cheating mechanic, but I really like Robots. “Burn,” however, takes one of the most linear strategies in the game and gives it a personality and history of its own. “40 Bolts and 20 Mountains” is lazy, “Sligh” is named after Paul Sligh and has nothing to do with the deck, “red deck wins” only works if you win, and “mono-red aggro” is straight-up lame. Besides, it beats all of its other names. If you win against it, you feel like you barely made it out of that situation alive. If you lose against Burn, you feel like you’ve just been burned. Whether you’re playing as or against the Burn player, Burn always seems to live up to its name. Look, I’ll admit that I’m a bit biased toward the deck being a Burn player myself, but it’s one of the most iconic deck names out there and the name is just so fitting. I’m about to list my top ten favorite deck names in all of competitive Magic history.īurn? Really? You make all this fuss about deck names losing their originality, and you start off your list with Burn? You, probably But if you’re like me and you miss the good old days when your deck’s name carried some history with it, then keep reading. An outdated form of expression, never to be spoken of again. Mono-red aggro? Never heard of that deck. I want to know if your deck has personality. I don’t even care if you’re aiming to win on turn 4 or turn 50. I don’t care what colors your mana base needs to support. Okay, you don’t have to be as philosophical as I am about collectible pieces of cardboard, but the least you could do is add a bit of zest to your deck names. Notice anything? We as a Magic society have become so engrossed in our pursuit of the “best deck” and the most “meta-breaking strategy” that we’ve forgotten what MTG is all about: expression of self. True-Name Nemesis | Illustration by Zack Stella
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