Teaching Magic (Patreon)

As I warned the other day, I found an online Shandalar game here https://premodernbsb.com/shandalar/ so of course I've been grinding! When you start, you can choose what color you want to focus on. But that doesn't mean you'll get playable spells or even sufficient lands in the colors you need for your deck! I of course started with blue. I don't know if I just didn't have enough creature interaction or if it's because I chose the hardest level, but I was getting my butt kicked. It's especially bad when you play for ante, because the more you lose, the more your deck is depleted and gets even worse. So I started over with red as my main color (although again you gets cards from all five colors). But I started winning a bunch of good black cards. After about an hour and a half, here was my deck:

Note that I have to play the Underground Sea because I don't have enough Swamps, lol. Paralyze is especially strong, it's basically the black Swords to Plowshares. Probably going to play a little more tonight. Would love to get some Strip Mines and Sinkholes. Those are fun cards, right?