Variant Format: "Timeline"

This is a fun variant format where you must select exactly one card printed in each of the following sets to be in your deck. Highlander rules, so no, you cant run 6 copies of Swords to Plowshares. You do not need to play the card from the set you put it in during construction (example: you only own Elspeth vs Tezzeret Path to Exiles, you may use that card for the Conflux slot.) There is nothing banned in this format. After selecting a card for every set, you may add any number of basic lands.

Limited Edition Alpha

Limited Edition Beta

Unlimited Edition

Revised Edition

Fourth Edition

Fifth Edition

Classic

Seventh Edition

Eighth Edition

Ninth Edition

Tenth Edition

Magic 2010

Magic 2011

Magic 2012

Magic 2013

Magic 2014

Arabian Nights

Antiquities

Legends

The Dark

Fallen Empires

Homelands

Ice Age

Alliances

Coldsnap

Mirage

Visions

Weatherlight

Tempest

Stronghold

Exodus

Urza's Saga

Urza's Legacy

Urza's Destiny

Mercadian Masques

Nemesis

Prophecy

Invasion

Planeshift

Apocalypse

Odyssey

Torment

Judgment

Onslaught

Legions

Scourge

Mirrodin

Darksteel

Fifth Dawn

Champions of Kamigawa

Betrayers of Kamigawa

Saviors of Kamigawa

Ravnica: City of Guilds

Guildpact

Dissension

Time Spiral

Planar Chaos

Future Sight

Lorwyn

Morningtide

Shadowmoor

Eventide

Shards of Alara

Conflux

Alara Reborn

Zendikar

Worldwake

Rise of the Eldrazi

Scars of Mirrodin

Mirrodin Besieged

New Phyrexia

Innistrad

Dark Ascension

Avacyn Restored

Return to Ravnica

Gatecrash

Dragon's Maze

Theros

Modern Masters

Portal

Portal Second Age

Portal Three Kingdoms

Starter

Chronicles

Obviously any new set adds an additional card that must be in your deck.

Thanks to Chris Walton for this idea! We will be playing it this weekend during FNM and Prereleases!

Modern UB Control

Zimmermann Jones has been playing this deck lately to moderate success, so I figured I'd share it here. I intend on trying it out this week, and It has a lot of cards I love to play.

4 Tectonic Edge
4 Watery Grave
1 Swamp
3 Creeping Tar Pit
4 Temple of Deceit
3 Darkslick Shores
4 River of Tears
1 Sunken Ruins
4 Remand
2 Spell Snare
1 Disfigure
2 Dismember
2 Smother
3 Mana Leak
4 Liliana of the Veil
4 Jace Beleren
2 Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
2 Damnation
2 Night of Souls' Betrayal
4 Thoughtseize
4 Spreading Seas

Sideboard

2 Hero's Downfall
1 Damnation
1 Sever the Bloodline
2 Desecration Demon
2 Duress
1 Negate
1 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Torpor Orb
1 Ghost Quarter
3 Ratchet Bomb

Modern Heartbeat Combo

Last night I was able to play some modern matches with a fun and interesting new (to modern) combo deck!

Turns out drawing 20+ cards with 5 mana floating is usually good enough.

The deck is not the greatest by any means, but I was able to win maybe half of my matches while streaming last night (twitch.tv/jjflipped). Try it out and let me know how you do!

Modern Heartbeat Combo

2 Verdant Catacombs
4 Misty Rainforest

1 Breeding Pool

13 Forest

3 Island

2 Sleight of Hand

3 Remand

4 Explore

4 Search for Tomorrow

4 Early Harvest
4 Heartbeat of Spring
3 Vernal Bloom
3 Harmonize
4 Urban Evolution

3 Rude Awakening

1 Mirari

1 Blue Sun's Zenith
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn

Sideboard

1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
4 Obstinate Baloth
1 Spell Pierce
2 Nature's Claim
3 Pact of Negation
2 Dismember
2 Cyclonic Rift

(Thanks to Stephen Boggemes for this one!)

Pack Rat - Vintage All-Star

A couple weekends ago I sleeved this up. It is essentially a clone of a list from 6 person event in Italy (EDIT: And another 16 person event taken down by the same 75), but the guy DID win. Guess that counts for something? I ended up 1-2ing my event, but both losses were very close game three losses.

3 Pack Rat

1 Ancestral Recall

1 Flusterstorm

2 Mindbreak Trap

1 Steel Sabotage

2 Hero's Downfall

2 Mental Misstep

2 Misdirection

2 Mana Drain

4 Force of Will

1 Demonic Tutor

1 Time Walk

1 Toxic Deluge

4 Standstill

2 Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver

2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

2 Liliana of the Veil

1 Black Lotus

1 Crucible of Worlds

1 Engineered Explosives

1 Mox Jet

1 Mox Sapphire

1 Creeping Tar Pit

1 Library of Alexandria

1 Strip Mine

3 Island

4 Mutavault

4 Polluted Delta

4 Underground Sea

4 Wasteland

Sideboard

1 Toxic Deluge 

2 Energy Flux 

1 Dismember 

1 Thada Adel, Acquisitor 

1 Echoing Truth 

2 Yixlid Jailer 

3 Grafdigger's Cage 

1 Surgical Extraction 

2 Nightveil Specter 

1 Nihil Spellbomb

There were some issues with the deck. Like... Ashiok. That card was bad. It should just be another removal spell and another Jace.

That said, this felt like one of the better actual control decks I have played in the format in some time. Standstill is very good, and pairing with black for Deluge is incredible. That card is just amazing. T1 rat is a force to be reckoned with. I even had the pleasure of T1 Sea, Lotus, Rat, Standstill against a RUG delver deck. Won that one.

Modern Exarch Devotion

So I totally forgot that this blog existed.

Lately I have been getting the itch to brew new decks in all the eternal formats (sorry standard players), and was recently reminded that I have a blog and should start posting some lists!

The recent picture I posted on Facebook was the exarch-navaigator blue devotion modern deck. That list is courtesy of Garret Meadows (Thanks!)

4 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
3 Blue Sun's Zenith
4 Deceiver Exarch
3 Gilded Lotus
2 Pestermite
3 Deadeye Navigator
3 Cloudstone Curio
18 Island
4 Spreading Seas
4 Jace Beleren
4 Serum Visions
3 Gitaxian Probe
3 Cryptic Command
2 Remand

Sideboard
4 Tidebinder Mage
4 Claustrophobia
2 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Relic of Progenitus
1 Cryptic Command
2 Dispel

WARNING: Don't try this online. It took forever to win with. Its something like 11 clicks to add  mana with exarch-navigator-nykthos (with a useless curio out), and 7 clicks to draw a card with curio-seas.

I'm going to be trying some fun stuff out in the next few weeks in modern, and I have vintage and legacy events the next two weekends to mess around in.