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Benjamin Haddon

Cailtis is an avid gamer of all sorts, a reader and writer, underground and extreme music enthusiast, vegetarian, environmentalist, and student. He currently plays EDH almost exclusively with some splurges on Limited events to open sealed product, while also continuing to build a collection.

Most commented posts

  1. My First Article For MTGCasualPlay – And A Primer — 14 comments
  2. What’s Fun About EDH and How Can We Standardize It — 7 comments
  3. Glaring Spotlight Volume 7 – Reito Lantern — 6 comments
  4. A Creatureless Challenge — 5 comments
  5. Your Guide to Control in EDH, Part 1: Threat Assessment — 5 comments

Author's posts

May 16 2016

Chaos, “Fun”, and You (and Your Playgroup, of Course!)

Hello again, folks, it’s cailtis back again after far too much time. Today, I want to do something fairly dissimilar from my articles in the past, and instead of telling the story of one of my decks, I want to talk about a larger concept or discussion point that affects all EDH players.

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Jan 09 2016

Glaring Spotlight Volume 8 – Possibility Storm

GLARING SPOTLIGHT is a Magic the Gathering™ column featuring a card that may have gone over-looked during the the building of your EDH Commander deck. Today we discuss .

Do You Hate Yourself, Your Friends, and Magic: The Gathering Itself?

I say in jest. But there is, in fact, a lot (and I mean a …

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Aug 14 2015

Your Guide to Control in EDH, Part 3: Win Conditions

I’m back for the third and final segment of this comprehensive guide for Control Players in EDH. After talking about the third column of any Control player’s strategy, I’ll go back and review and conclude some things about the Control playstyle as it applies to the EDH table.

The Ways to Win

This column has …

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Aug 13 2015

Your Guide to Control in EDH, Part 2: Answers

We’re back, folks, and this part of my Guide to Control in EDH will talk about answers, perhaps the most critical component to Control decks in general and a large component of any kind of EDH deck. See the end of this article to move to the third and final part of this guide.

The …

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Aug 13 2015

Your Guide to Control in EDH, Part 1: Threat Assessment

I’ve seen a few posts and comments around the EDH subreddit asking for advice in building and playing control in this format, and, since I seem to pilot a majority of decks that are classified as control, I decided to take a stab at talking about it.

Note: A couple thousand words in, I realized …

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Jul 29 2015

A Creatureless Challenge: Continued

I profusely apologize for my lateness to return with more content for MTGCasualPlay.com. Besides personal business in my life, I found it most necessary to get more concrete testing in before I drew any conclusions for an article idea. I want to keep things fresh, and while I do provide deck techs fairly frequently, it’s …

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Jul 14 2015

Glaring Spotlight Volume 7 – Reito Lantern

GLARING SPOTLIGHT is a Magic the Gathering™ column featuring a card that may have gone over-looked during the the building of your EDH Commander deck. Today we discuss .

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Jul 08 2015

Zombie Queen – My Adventure With the Living Dead

When I first began playing Magic: the Gathering back in early 2011, I was very intrigued by the varieties of all the decks I saw; of course, this was primarily due to the casual environment I was exposed to, with decks with not limited by set legality and the only restrictions in deck building being …

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Jun 26 2015

Glaring Spotlight Volume 6 – Quest for Ancient Secrets

GLARING SPOTLIGHT is a Magic the Gathering™ column featuring a card that may have gone over-looked during the the building of your EDH Commander deck. Today we discuss .

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Jun 23 2015

A Creatureless Challenge

After a drought of little-to-no time for anyone to sling spells the past 10 days, Saturday Night EDH was finally nigh for my local playgroup. I had probably built and destroyed roughly 4 decks this past week, and their successors finally had a platform to test and get good constructive criticism. There were only three …

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