Also, make sure to stick to Standard decks when building, because then you dont need to worry about facing off against decks built from older sets, which most often means avoiding double-energy
This way, you at least have a heads up whether to continue to read the entry or avoid my commentary on it
While there are guidelines to keep in mind when deck building (no Game Changers in Exhibition or Core, no mass land denial through Upgraded, etc.), the bracket system is emphatically not just "put your deck into a calculator, get assigned a rank, and be ready to play." I deeply appreciate the tools that websites like Moxfield and Archidekt have put together to give you an overall estimate, and they've done some fantastic iteration to help emphasize intent as wellbut I want to stress that any estimate is just an estimate
It also includes guidance for each of Magics 5 colors, to hopefully make the set more draftable It then generates a bunch of possibilities for cards, where each card is just a one sentence idea
Just like me! Illustrated by Ben Harvey Standard Not Legal Alchemy Not Legal Pioneer Not Legal Historic Legal Modern Not Legal Brawl Legal Legacy Legal Comp