'Competitive Magic' -with Paul 'Frodo' Muller

Competitive Magic- with Paul ‘Frodo’ Muller

Happy Thursday to all my insane magic friends!

This weekend is SCG New Jersey featuring the invitational. It will be three days of insane magic fun, but if you're like me it's really only two days because someone here couldn't grind out those last few points (that would be me!!). However, who cares, we have an insane local tournament with standard on Saturday and legacy on Sunday. Thanks to the invitational these tournaments will be insane due to all the magic players who traveled for the invitational and had a run of bad luck on Friday. This is going to raise the level of competition in the open series even more! So, what should I play on Friday, if I'm in the invitational? Well, to start, let's address the idea that the standard metagame in an invitational is different than your average tournament.

There is usually a higher than average number of control and mono black and blue because these decks have a high amount of play to them. This meta, however, opens the door for burn, so honestly for the first time in my life I'm going to suggest burn, Will O'Neil you're welcome. In addition to burn being well positioned against these controlling decks, it has the most insane matchup vs. rabble red, thanks to cards like Searing Blood. If however you don't feel like you can play a deck like this to its fullest, I would suggest you play the deck that you know the best. The math suggests this will give you 4.7% higher win rate against an open field. So, now with standard out of the way, you still need jam legacy for four rounds. While everyone owns a standard deck, very few own legacy.

The Magic Mondays- More community playtesting/Reactions

The Magic Mondays- More community playtesting/Reactions

with Chaz Volpe

Hey again everyone! Time for another Magic Mondays. Where mostly I just ramble on a multitude of various MTG related content! This week I have another round of BSB community decklist testing, some positive, some not so positive. Adriel knows, he sure knows….lol! There was also an article released today on the MTG mothership site about some really big changes coming to the game we all know and love. What does this all mean? Well, let’s get to it shall we?

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So, there we have it, some highlights from my recent stream with my “co-streamer” BSB member, Adriel.

We also are starting up on Youtube! BoltSnapBolt.

Full videos here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkW0O38hb6VdGzFIcoC17yg

New Beginnings- Welcome our new Writer!

My Welcoming Statement!

by Paul ‘Frodo’ Muller

Hey all, I’m happy to be coming to you from Bolt Snap Bolt. This will serve as my first article, as well as an introduction to who I am and my perspective on the game as a whole, with regular content to follow as a Thursday slot. In brief, I’m Paul Muller; I’ve been playing tournaments, and magic in general, since Return to Ravnica, though my first three experiences playing were the prereleases of Inistrad block. I play standard and legacy mostly, with one notable finish being 12th at the last Baltimore SCG piloting Jund monsters.

With this article, however, I would really like to take a quick look at magic in general and what it means to each of us, the players invested enough to seek out and read content on it. I would like you to take a moment and think about all this game has given you; the great friends, the camaraderie, the bad beats stories. For most of us the game is a hobby, a reason to leave the house, something to do with friends after work. For a few of us it is a career path, and for most of us it is a way to do something we love, and hate at times, with the best people. Magic, above all else, is a community. We take in the misfits, we take in everyone regardless of nationality and race, income, etc.; these things all fall away and we become just people, magic players. We have a common interest that transcends the community, allows the timid to be bold, the socially awkward to be brave.

THE BSB Ask Us Anything! Trying to do this bi-weekly!

Ask us anything! (let's keep it clean everyone) ^_^

Facebook comments now active! Enjoy!

Finally was able to get this up and running. I'm not the most familiar with HTML coding but, enjoy everyone.

Let me know if there is any issues!

The Magic Mondays- Triumphant Return! Welcome Back.

The Magic Mondays: Triumphant Return! Welcome back.

Hello everyone, as I have said I have been negligent with Magic Mondays for a while. With other things needing my attention around the BSB Group, it has affected my weekly article. Just so everyone knows I also do the BSB Podcast and now Pete and myself are setting up something similar to the SSG series “VS” between Chris Van Meter and BBD. We will be streaming the community deck-lists, yes YOURS, up against “meta” decks or other community deck-lists. We are hoping this will provide invaluable information to the group and everyone who follows us on the blog/twitch/Twitter.

That being said: Let’s dive on in for the returning week of Magic Mondays.

Here is the first go at our play-testing and hopefully we will polish this more as we go along.  

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Getting back on track- New articles from new writers.

With life getting in the way sometimes I for one have slacking in my duties to bring you guys articles from my own Magic Mondays. I want to take this time to apologize and tell you we're getting back on track. With some new writers bringing us new columns, as well as myself getting back on track with Magic Mondays.

I also want to take this time to thank the people here at BSB for continuing dedication in their writing columns and Pete for keeping up with me and the Podcast.


Thanks everyone! Thank you so much for sticking with BSB, I would really love to hear from all of you as to what we can do to make BSB better. On twitter, Facebook, or on the comments below.

Metagame Check- Spirit Bonds

Metagame Check- Spirit Bonds

with Samuel Wells

Hello people of the internet.

I am Samuel Wells, back with another Metagame check.

Last week I teased what card I was going to highlight in this article. I have set my eyes on Spirit Bonds this week. To give context, this was the card that I predicted to be one of the biggest impact cards coming in M15.

Spirit Bonds is a card that calls back to the Aristocrat decks of last standard. The concept of making 1/1 spirits to grind out the game and out value the opponent while still playing quickly to the board. Spirit Bonds even provides its own form of protection for the rest of your creatures. Truly does everything that an Aristocrats deck could want short of having Blood Artist’s text box as well. When I saw this card, I immediately went back and looked at what tools remained from the Aristocrats in the current standard. And I found a number of tools that seemed to synergize well with this card overall. Without further ado, here is the decklist:

BoltSnapBolt Podcast-PTM15, Generator brew, Financial Picks!

BoltSnapBolt Podcast!




BoltSnapBolt Podcast-PTM15, Generator brew, Financial Picks!

Another awesome podcast, so tune in and get our thoughts on the latest Pro Tour-M15. As well as another great brew from Pete Casella, which also saw some flare at SSG featuring Generator Servant. All that and more, so tune in! Gooooo!

-with you always Pete Casella and myself Chaz Volpe

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Metagame Check- Generator Servant

Metagame Check- Generator Servant

with Samuel Wells

Hello once again!

Samuel Wells here, bringing you another Metagame Check. These next couple weeks I plan on highlighting some cards from M15 that I see breathing new life into decks. Either strategies that have more or less died as the meta has developed or decks that I see as stale ideas that could benefit from getting a reboot of sorts.

My article this week will focus on a deck in the latter category. If you follow Star City Games or Chris Van Meter at all, you will certainly have seen Jund Monsters as a deck that has been highlighted and defended as a top tier deck in this format. And for good reason, the deck has consistently put up good results. If you have read my article last week you will know that I agree with them that this deck is a pillar of the format.

This is a deck that I have had a growing appreciation for the more that I have seen and interacted with it. This growing appreciation had spawned a desire to create my own brew based on the deck.

When M15 was spoiled, one lowly red common stood out as a final piece to the puzzle that motivated me to make a Monsters list.