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I (along with what I assume was many other authors on major strategy websites) was given a copy of Patrick Chapin’s most recently published book Next Level Deckbuilding. I hadn’t read the previous book, but was familiar with most of what he has written for SCG since his return to the game.

Originally, I was going to post this “review” to my facebook wall, but that audience probably doesn’t have a ton of overlap with who I think the book is best for. So I decided to post it here, where it hopefully helps some people.

TL;DR. This book is good for beginning deckbuilders, great for people interested in the history of magic and not great for spikes who are already familiar with Chapin’s work.

Generally speaking this is the nicest piece of Magic writing I have ever seen. The formatting is gorgeous and there often pictures of relevant cards littered throughout the chapter/decklist so that people who are unfamiliar with the entire card pool can still get the general gist of most arguments. If you are very new to magic you will still need to occasionally look up cards while reading.

The writing is also well done. Chapin can be wordier than I prefer, but his points are clear and the flow of the writing is excellent. Many authors can get tangled up in smaller articles and its testament to both his writing and the editing process that I imagine this book is easily digestable for everyone. He has a bit of a rhetorical style, but that doesn’t bother me and gives the book a slightly more casual tone (which is a net positive).

The book is roughly divided into 3 major sections, which I will go over briefly.

Part 1: Basics of Deck Building

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This covers the basics of building decks. For an aspiring competitive player this is probably the most useful part. In particular there is a lot of advice here that should help players with theory with regards to modifying netdecks.

I think an explicit list of pitfalls might have been useful, but most of the common mistakes are touched on. In general I would of liked a bit more textbook like summary for a lot of the topics (aka bullet points), but it did find the book easy to read as a result of its more relaxed style.

There are also some useful basic advice on how to build a sideboard, and I think that alone is going to be worth some percentage to average PPTQ player. A lot of the material has been covered in other places, but this is the first time I have seen a comprehensive treatment. If you already frame sideboard discussions in the terms below, the material is probably too elementary otherwise this is absolutely required knowledge.

Avoid sidegrades. Sideboard Plans which Change your Role vs Reinforce it. Trumps vs Supplementary cards (and balancing them).

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One area I used to like is the Chapin dichotomy on creatures. Basically all creatures are Mulldrifters (value) or Baneslayers (less value oriented). In the current meta this is bit like Courser vs Anafenza. This helps us frame why we put certain creatures in a deck or why it’s a bad idea to add a creature that might be good in a vacuum to a deck.

My issue with this theory/breakdown is that it leads to some conclusions which I find contradictory. For example, a recurring theme across his writing is that we shouldn’t add Baneslayers to a deck full of Mulldrifters. The latter are inherently resistant to Doomblade effects, but we can turn our opponent’s removal on by including creatures its good against (even if those creatures are very powerful). And Chapin thinks we would be better served by not making our opponent’s cards good if we can avoid it. I think that point is fairly intuitive. On the other hand Chapin is okay with adding some Mulldrifters to a Baneslayer deck because there isn’t a class of card which is as obviously good against Mulldrifter. But by that logic we could also keep adding Mulldrifters without hurting the deck. At some point we become the 90/10 Mulldrifter/Banelsayer deck that Chapin highlights as being bad deckbuilding!

So while I think, the Mulldrifter/Baneslayer discussion is useful (should we put Den Protector in Abzan Aggro?), it’s a theory that I feel needs to be refined at this point.

Part 2: Deck Archetypes

This is particularly great section for newer players, though I have been playing competitively for 7 years and still enjoyed it. There is a ton of interesting history. While I can’t speak to the accuracy of everything presented here, there is something to be learned by looking at successful examples of macro archetypes. For example, if we want to understand whether Tasigur fits in Modern Burn, it helps to think about what makes a good Lava Spike deck.

There is definitely some blurring in some of the categories (and Chapin obviously had to work make the perfect 4x4 symmetry), but providing a common language is important for anyone trying to engage in discussion and I think most of the major highlights were hit.

Part 3: Top 10 deckbuilders.

I mostly skimmed this part on the flight back from GP Vegas, but this felt even more down the path of entertainment/interesting and less on the path of educational/useful. I personally like reading about Magic History, but enjoyed the archetype discussion a bit more than this section (or maybe I was just burned out).

Summary

NLD is not a cheap book. If you are looking for the most useful advice for winning a PPTQ I think a SCG Premium subscription (Note I am in no way affiliated with either them or Chapin) is better value. But NLD is likely to teach you something if you are below the level of consistent PPTQ top8er. For example, this book would very easily be valuable to the average member of /r/spikes. The book summarizes a lot of what has been written elsewhere and for that value alone it might be worth picking up (instead of tracking down disjoint articles).

If you like reading about the history of the Magic, NLD is a 10/10. There is no better resource that I have seen. The formatting is great and Chapin is probably the best when it combines authority on history and competence in deckbuilding. He is the best tour guide you could ask for in terms of navigating deckbuilding arcana.

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If you are at a high level already and are trying to get better you are better served investing your time in other places.

Mini Salt Side Rant: Would argue that I technically was the first to play Thepths, though GerryT made the deck playable and popularized it. Also would argue that Boat Brew was invented by myself/Matt Nass at California states before Kowal played it and even though his version was probably the first good one (to this day I have no idea why I played knight captain of eos over siege gang commander) to get a published finish (it was card for card popular on Magic League IIRC). Credit in deck lists is overrated (and hard to get right anyways) so it’s no big deal.

EDIT: Can someone explain how to bold text. I am a reddit noob and google not helping.

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