Confession time: one of my pet cards is Smallpox. That might seem weird coming from an attacks-loving aggro-control enthusiast such as myself, but Smallpox has a lot of the elements I prize in a card: its symmetry makes it innocuous; its floor is low, and its ceiling miles high; its conditions ask pilots to build […]

Back in March, Team Pantheon’s Reid Duke — a known Legacy Pox player — developed his personal take on Modern’s discard deck 8Rack. [wp_ad_camp_1]   You can see his list below. 8Rack by Reid Duke Planeswalkers4 Liliana of the VeilSpells4 The Rack4 Shrieking Affliction4 Dismember4 Inquisition of Kozilek4 Raven’s Crime4 Smallpox4 Thoughtseize4 Wrench Mind Lands16 […]

8Rack is a reasonably strong Modern discard deck that straight up wrecks certain metas, and provides one of the few, good means of playing “hard” control in this format. However, it costs about $700. So maybe you can’t afford it, maybe you’re unsure if it’s your thing or not and just want to test the […]

It’s not often Modern decks are definitively created by a single person, but that certainly seems to be the case with 8Rack, a discard deck created in 2013 that kills you with The Rack, among other things. Today we get to talk to the man behind the deck Robert Leva (aka MemoryLapse on MTGSalvation) and […]

8Rack is a Modern monoblack discard deck created by Robert Leva — aka MemoryLapse on MTGSalvation — in 2013. Monoblack discard decks aren’t a new thing to Magic — Legacy has had the Pox archetype, which operates similarly, for ages, and even Standard has one or two now, and has before, but they are relatively […]