A collection of the various deck techs written by BCW employees and occasional guests. These cover a wide range of games including Magic the Gather, Pokémon, Flesh and Blood, Cardfight Vanguard, Final Fantasy TCG, and others.
Hey guys! It’s Serena, back again! This time, bringing you something a little different. Thanks to my recent birthday, I was able to obtain each of the Final Fantasy commander preconstructed decks. I know that sometimes, finding balance in your playgroup can be hard, so I had an idea: I will use these decks and make myself a ‘Pod Box’!
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The BCW trading card backpack is built with:
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This makes it a more reliable choice for players who want a true TCG backpack designed around how trading card games are actually played.
It’s time for the third color on our list for the Jumpstart cube. This time, we’re covering black, my personal favorite. To go over the basics, we’re doing 20 card packs, each with three rares, at least one piece of removal, six basic lands, and an Evolving Wilds. We’ve previously covered white and blue.
Both Gholdengo ex and Ceruledge ex are proven decks. While neither is at the top of the meta, both are solid performers that can threaten almost any deck. However, both come with some downsides. Gholdengo needs to constantly recycle energy, or it runs out of steam, and Ceruledge needs to fill the discard pile with energy as quickly as possible. With this in mind, I thought I would combine the two, as they work well together.
This time we’re diving into the four blue packs in my Jumpstart cube. As a refresher, each of these twenty card packs will have 6 basic lands, an Evolving Wilds, at least one piece of removal and 3 rares. Since we’re in blue, I decided things like Counterspell and other counter magic worked for the removal slot. If you want a to take a look at the four packs in white, you can find them in this article.
Hey guys! It’s Serena, back with something a bit different!
Today, we’re going to dive into the concept of Jumpstart. But more specifically, a Jumpstart Cube! I created a total of 20 different 20-card decks with the intent that, just like regular Jumpstart, each player will shuffle two of these decks together. My current Jumpstart cube is made with four decks of each color, each with a different theme. Some of the themes are based on creature type, some on a given keyword, and some on other factors. Now, on to the general construction of my cube.
Hey guys! It’s Serena, back again! This time we’re doing something a little different, going with a Yu-Gi-Oh! deck profile. Specifically, we’re talking about a fun budget deck that’s been showing up a lot in the rogue category of the current meta: Traptrix. Most of the contents of this deck will be available in the Traptrix structure deck, but even if you don’t have those or can’t find them, that shouldn’t be a huge issue. The deck revolves around plant and insect type monsters to make rank 4 and link plays to set up interaction and trap cards, specifically ‘Hole’ trap cards. Now, it’s time to duel!
Snorlax is a regular fixture in the Pokemon competitive scene. While it doesn’t always perform well, it’s a deck many players dread to face due to the unfun play patterns it can create. This deck is more of the same but even worse.
Hey guys! Serena, back at it again with another commander deck tech! This time we’re talking about Trazyn the Infinite from the Warhammer 40k Necron precon. While I fully admit I know little of 40k lore, Trazyn himself is an interesting commander who gains all activated abilities of artifacts in your graveyard. This ability really lets him live up to his epithet, which can lead to several variations of combo-killing the table, either through damage or through mill.
Hey guys! It’s Serena and I thought it was a good time to give you guys an updated deck profile for my girl, Feltyrosa! We’ve covered her a couple times now. If you need a refresher, Feltyrosa is a Lyrical Monastario deck built around swarming with Ghosts units from the deck via Felty’s drive checks, and including some new, very powerful support from the first Lyrical set in the Divinez era! If you want a refresher, you can find my last update article on the deck here.