Alodar's Tower
Welcome to the Tower of Alodar the Archmage, Master of the Five Magics.
The aspiring Magic: The Gathering duelist may find here much lore of
interest to those who walk the arcane paths.
Alodar's Grimoire of the Planes lies open before you. You may peruse
a general guide to the art of deck construction, or contemplate sample
decks with explanations.
The following dueling decks have been constructed in accordance with Alodar's
Axioms. They consist of 60-card base decks constructed mostly with commons
and a few uncommons, with optional extras from the rarities and artifacts.
Here are some designs not obeying Alodar's Axioms;
single-color decks. These are very powerful, fast decks that (because
they're single-color) can be stopped dead by a single card
(Conversion, for example, will pretty completely neutralize an all-red
deck, or Tsunami an all-blue one).
Other peoples' designs:
A shimmering magical portal leads to the Wizards of the Coast home page.
[The use of the name Alodar at this website is by explicit permission
of Lyndon Hardy, author of Master of the Five Magics, and
is revokable at any time.]
Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>