Tips for Playing Magic: The Gathering - Creating Your Own Rogue Decks

Sometimes you see a deck that completely bowls you over with originality, and you have to wonder how that player thought up that deck. As our team's primary Roguedeckbuilder, I've identified four main methods of discovering new deck ideas that have been highly successful in the past.

The first method is to look at interesting and powerful cards. Single cards can have a strong deck built around them so long as they are versatile and inexpensive. Cards like Braids, Cabal Minion, Oversold Cemetery, Citadel of Pain, or even Exhume would be examples of this. Tinker, Form of the Dragon, Humility, Survival of the Fittest and Oath of Druids are examples of such cards that are so powerful and abusable that decks using them seem to build themselves. Often the best bet with these kinds of decks is that they are built as control decks, or even a control-combo hybrid deck, in order to get the maximum benefit from them.