PT Berlin Preview – Extended Affinity

This is the first of a couple of videos we are posting in anticipation of PT Berlin 2008. The subject is Extended Affinity (that is, the best offensive deck of all time according to Osyp Lebedowicz). “Five With Flores: PT Berlin Preview – Extended Affinity” takes us from an archetype overview, to morphing last year’s Top 8 deck to incorporate Atog and Fatal Frenzy, and finally to a quick fight with aggro Rock.
 

 

The above is a basic overview video that I intend to post on my Top Decks column on magicthegathering.com this week (crossing my fingers to get 1-3 more finished for the same column). The idea is to do the usual Top Decks analysis for a pre-Pro Tour Berlin format overview article, but enrich the article with some of the stuff we are doing on Magic video side.

Some people are just visual and I think that showing them how decks actually play, how you can swap out certain Magic cards for other cards to tune and template a deck, and then some actual game play, will be helpful in a different way than just the articles.

As with the Red Deck set we did last week, I opened this one up with a Magic Online deck editor screen, and ran though the changes there… Thanks as usual to Brian David-Marshall for the idea.

So in the unlikely event that you’re reading my blog on 26 October 2008… You get a sneak peek of what I am intending for this week’s column.

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MIKE