My mbc deck that i took arizona states with, and tog. We have lots of examples of this in the history of magicif youve played. The deck was magics first broadbase innovator of card advantage as a goal unto itself. Mana acceleration those elements in a deck which allow the player to. This book is within the scope of wikiproject magic. Game 2 was the mono blue stax deck for me, i know i handled this deck very easily and wasnt worried during any part of the game but im not sure if i 20 him or if it was 21 either way bitterblossom turn 1 for 1 win, and psychatog under ensaring bridge for the other.
Its the unique creature that allow you to kill in 1 turn, this unique situation and ability in magic allows us to build a deck exclusively based on 1 card. See cards from the most recent sets and discover what players just like you are saying about them. Na this book does not require a rating on the projects quality scale. And while it does need a deck built around it to be effective which is why i dont think its the best creature in magic, its versatility allows lots of different builds to be made around it. It was even a piece of the original extended dredge deck. When wizards of the coast was asked how the novels and cards influence each other, brady dommermuth, magics creative director, responded by saying generally the cards provide the world in which the novels are set, and the novels sometimes provide characters represented on cards.
Middle school marauders 032019 coverage and results eternal. Psychatog constructed deck list and prices for the magic the gathering tcg. The gathering creature card printed at the uncommon level of rarity in the odyssey expansion set in 2001. While the deck types listed below are specific to magic. Each atog in the cycle had two pump abilities, one for each color. While tron has a long history of being a modern boogeyman, im. Volume 1 of the official encyclopedia features more than 2,000 cards from antiquitie. With a few exceptions, all spells have one of 3 functions. Psychatog, named for psychatog was a blueblack control deck with heavy reliance on countermagic and creature removal. Below are the most popular cards played in this deck.
For instance, in the case of my psychatog deck, the primary color was. The gathering players have invented many neologisms new terms over the. Psychatog in extended qualifiers by steve jarvis magic. A complete guide to building a magic deck that wins. Packing an oldschool psychatog deck, pro tour veteran antoine ruel fought his way through the 340player field to become champion of pro tourlos angeles 2005. Im tyring to locate a decent book that will talk about the strategies of deck building and basic rules of play. Drafting guide for beginners teaches you every step, including an action plan for winning and drafting and also general magic play. Most cards that offer a powerup from discard only get that benefit once, but psychatog actually uses your existing graveyard in conjunction with a. Though magic had shown up on computer screens before with a few casual video games, it truly entered the digital age in 2002 with the release of magic online with duels of the planeswalkers, magic branched out to gaming consoles like xbox. Each competitors release included their 60card deck and 15card sideboard, 12 blank proxy cards, and cards with a printed deck list, a biography of the player, and an. Unlike magic online, duels players play against ai opponents, allowing them to hone their skills before shuffling any physical cards.
On a personal note, my younger brother quit playing magic because of psychatog back in 2002. At first glance, psychatog doesnt seem very strong. It was a ug tempocontrol deck, that was the entryway to a really good extended deck called supergro, which made its name by attacking the format in a totally different way. This was a card defined by its ability to make an entire deck based around it. The following is a list of novels based in the setting of the collectible card game magic. It really is meant for a deck that doesnt want to activate it other than to survive combat or dodge removal, but rather chip away. The control deck has been a passion for many magic players over the years. Magic the gathering deck ideas, combo ideas and discussions. Psychatog was the toothy face of control and combo control for years. The 10 greatest boogeymen from mtg history channelfireball. Germany won the team competition, defeating the united states in the final 21.
Moat, for example, could neutralize any number of creatures on the ground. To this day, despite numerous upheavals in its respective formats, tog remains a top tier deck in extended, taking first place at gp. Co prawda hotel gromada pod okeciem przeksztalcil sie w hotel sangate, ale to drobiazg. Updated sep 26, 2011 by feralwitchchild using our mtg deck builder. Psychatog, whose illustration somewhat resembles the muppet of the same name. For many years, psychatog was considered the best gold card ever printed. Mistrzostwa polski magic the gathering 2017 psychatog. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. Digital downloads physical books apparel shopping faq. If you have your own deck that has psychatog in it. Budget psychatog competitive deck this gnarly savage of a deck will give any upscale edh player a run for their money. I remember playing deck at home all alone to test them out and see if theyd work at. Psychatog is also pictured in the onslaught version of shock psychatog was part of a cycle of allied color atogs.
My brother quit playing magic because of people playing this deck at fnm. The first and most dominant control deck in history was the deck, but. Tongo nations performance with this unique deck in 1997 was among the most impressive team efforts in the history of the pro tour, one that would not even be approached until team abus four greenred decks in the top 8 of pttokyo. With an accelerated graveyard fill, and constant card draw, the tog will pack a punch. Penny dreadful is an ultrabudget, 10,000card magic online brewers paradise with powerful cards, six free weekly tournaments, free 247 league. Easily, one of the top, top boogeymen of mtg history. Here are some 2003 vintage decklists to give an idea. Your deck of cards represents all the weapons in your arsenal. No one can deny psychatogs place in history in constructed, but is the card good enough for cube. Magic began to venture out of dominaria and into several new planes in the later novels such as mirrodin formerly argentum in the mirrodin cycle, kamigawa in the kamigawa cycle, and ravnica in the ravnica cycle. Psychatog card info, combos, and decks involving the psychatog magic the gathering card. Years ago i asked mtg staffers which books were best to read in order to prepare for work on an rpg version of the mtg game.
At its core its a game of strategy, planning and execution. It was a blueblack control deck that basically just looked to counter every spell, destroy every. Added ability to build decks with kaladesh, kaladesh inventions cards in mtg online 3 deck format. Deckbox sellers click on any seller to visit their profile and see what else they have for sale or for trade. When i was able to talk my friend steve forester into playing my monoblack deck, i now needed to borrow cards for that deck as well as those for the tog to give each a better chance in extended. For deck ideas see our introducing middle school article, which has. Generation decks is a fascinating history of the game, following not only the development and growth of the game from the wotc perspective, but also the. Magic the gathering, magic cards, singles, decks, card lists, deck ideas, wizard of the coast, all of the cards you need at great prices are available at cardkingdom. Psychatog is a blueblack atog creature card from odyssey. The gathering, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of magic. Magic the gathering strategy and deck building tips. If youre deck is weak in strategy and you havent planned correctly youll never be able to execute a good game. Psychatog proved to be the best of the cycle by far due to the synergy of its two abilities and the ability of blue to feed both of them. Originally a design out of the invasion7thodyssey standard format, the deck was quickly adapted for the extended scene throughout various rotation until its demise when odyssey and with it the namesake card left the game.
With all the turns that the antidamage and anticreature cards were buying it, the deck had time to draw extra cards with braingeyser and jayemdae tome. Most control archetypes have seemed to me to be too unstable, too inconsistent, and not much fun to play. The gathering, these concepts also extend to other collectible card games. In standard, psychatog was one of the most dominant decks ive ever seen. Version history mtg studio mtg studio deck builder. The following is an excerpt from a brief history of magic cards, a new book exploring the the reallife, human history of magic cards, currently being funded on kickstarter. Psychatog has a modified version of necratogs ability to eat cards in the graveyard, but it was felt that chronatogs ability, which involves skipping turns, should not be continued in psychatog. From wikibooks, open books for an open world archetype. Its abilities, which allow the player to strengthen it by discarding cards or removing cards in the graveyard discard pile from the game, resulted in psychatog being labeled broken overpowered by players. Never ever in magic a deck has been built around 1 card, and this makes the deck behaves like a combo deck depends on situations.