Reasons to Play Magus of the Moon in Previous Level Blue
September 17, 2008
This is Luis Scott-Vargas’ second video about building Previous Level Blue for the new Extended format. The first video was about the Magic The Gathering cards that make up this deck.
In this video, he gives a couple reasons to play Magus of the Moon. This red creature has been wrecking the Type II (Standard) format in the last couple of weeks. It can definitely hurt Extended decks too, because many Extended decks have a lot of non-basic lands.
Show Notes
Fetchlands and Ravnica dual lands allow you to fix your mana easily to support Magus of the Moon.
The manabase is:
13 Island
4 Polluted Delta
2 Wooded Foothills (not sure on this number; Luis didn’t say how many)
2 Breeding Pool
1 Stomping Ground
1 Steam Vents
1 Forest
Before you play Magus of the Moon, make sure to fetch for a basic Forest. The Forest allows you to cast Tarmogoyf while Magus is in play.
You don’t need a lot of red mana sources because Magus turns all your non-basic lands into Mountains.
Magus doesn’t allow you to play quality lands like Mutavault. However, Magus is worth it.
It works well against UrzaTron, which will probably be a top deck. Many decks in the format lose to a resolved Magus.
Against Affinity, Magus turns off Blinkmoth Nexus. It makes it hard to cast the non-red colored spells like Thoughtcast. Just remember that artifact lands are still artifacts even with Magus in play.
Magus is good against Rock (Green/Black Doran) decks, because many of them will probably add lands like Treetop Village, Mutavault, and Twilight Mire.
Magus also has the advantage of being unexpected because your first couple land drops will usually be Islands. Your opponents will not be fetching basic lands until it’s too late.
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I’d expect both Moons (Magus, Blood) in various Extended decks at Berlin. As the format slows down a bit with the loss of pre-Onslaught sets, I think some people will take a shot at the mono-red hate build with 8x Moon, Demigod, Pit Dragon, and pals.
This reminds me that the decks I played during the last Extended PTQ season ran all basics.
Interesting mono-red hate build. It definitely could work in the right metagame.
What decks did you play in the last Extended PTQ season?