![]() ![]() A Smokestack, left unattended, will remove a lot of permanents. One of the first, best ways to have a Smokestack be truly great is to have a lot of extra permanents running around. Here are the best general ways to abuse the card. ![]() Keeping track of the proper pace of the Smokestack is a good skill to acquire. A quick note for those of you who don't realize this about Smokestack: you aren't required to add an extra counter every turn. If you'd like, every turn they'll lose yet more permanents than the turn before. As someone relentlessly loses cards to a Smokestack, they really do start to get frustrated. The cards that make people lose hope are the ones most likely to get me excited. (I'm only bragging about that because it's fun to rub in the sweet taste of victory on former State Champs who are past their glory days). I did okay, beating up on two former Wisconsin State Champions, Rob Castro and Jake Welch, in the process. I even got to play a Smokestack deck once in a tournament, a whopping 10 person event in Milwaukee's classic small-town Magic shop, the VGC. Smokestack was one of those cards I kept plugging away at. Plenty of great cards never have their potential realized, because they may have only been good for a week, or they may have only been good if something else didn't happen to exist. So it goes that many, many decks get sent to Deck Limbo, tossed into File 13 with rarely any hope that they'll see the light of day again. If you play in Block Constructed, say Odyssey Block Constructed, for example, it's quite hard to make a deck that doesn't include one of the following cards: Wild Mongrel, Psychatog, Mutilate, or Mirari's Wake. ![]() Most of the time, I make decks with an eye on tournament play, and there are a lot of inherent limitations on creativity when it comes to making those decks. (He and I talked on the phone about it and laughed at ourselves for all of the terrible choices we made as deckbuilders back then.) His deck is easily one of my favorite decks ever, even with all of its rough edges. Last week, when I talked about Pox, it was a special treat just to be able to mention Andrew Wolf's Pox deck. One of my favorite things about writing the Single Card Strategies column is to revisit some of my very favorite moments in deckbuilding. ![]()
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