Playing Proactive Green Decks

About this episode

Andy and Anthony discuss strategies for winning with proactive green decks, analyzing successful decks and gameplay techniques.

View all cards mentioned in this episode Following their previous episode about playing with Young Pyromancer Andy and Anthony talk about how to win with proactive green decks. They look back at some of Anthony’s successful decks and try to get some insight into what makes them tick, exploring card types and distribution and gameplay heuristics. Discussed in this episode: Deck Photos Episode 299: How to Win with Young Pyromancer Episode 260: The ABC’s of Midrange Red Terror If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube Anthony’s “Regular” Cube You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord . Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky Paper PO Box 4855 Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty . Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 4:33 - Main Topic: How to Play Green 6:39 - Andy’s Midrange Woes 12:05 - Mana Curve & Mulligans 14:28 - Being the Beatdown 20:58 - Combat & Blocking 29:37 - Card…

People in this episode

Hosts: Andy Mangold, Anthony Mattox

Topics covered

• proactive green decks
• deck building
• gameplay heuristics
• card evaluation
• mana curve
• combat strategies

Keywords

• green decks
• Young Pyromancer
• deck photos
• mana curve
• combat
• synergy
• cantrips

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Lucky Paper, Cube Cobra, MTG Cube Talk Discord

Books & works: Episode 299: How to Win with Young Pyromancer, Episode 260: The ABC’s of Midrange Red Terror

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