Mad Scientist deck building is a concept I've learned and developed from top players. It is basically building something unorthodox, unordinary, extraordinary, etc. Building something so off the wall people look at you with raised eye-brows and raised curiosity. The first person I saw to build this way was Jihan or Goo on the ffg forums. This beast is mad crazy and inspired me and other top players such as Paul Bittner to build 80, 90, or even in my case 100 card decks!! These decks usually contain tons of damage reduction, life gain and mill/draw cards.

Now you might be asking yourself, isn't it a little more consistent, logical, not NUTS to build a 60 card deck? Why yes young jedi it is, but free your mind as Morpheus would say and let's see how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Congratulations to our new UFS World Champion James Hata, who is also now the newest member of FFG staff. I have to admit, the second statement excites me a lot more than the first for many reasons. First of all, we finally have a member of staff that has a good eye for competitive cards, which should directly translate into a more balanced game. Second, it's gonna be a real pain in the ass to get his staff card off of him. The age old joke about taking candy from babies ends with Mr. Hata, which means we can expect the card to be worth its weight in gold. All joking aside, however, the last month of UFS has left us with more information than analysts, so everyone who hasn't been in on ground zero for the last couple weeks has some serious catching up to do. Hopefully I can cover most of the major points today, and follow up with the predictions for the future in the next article. That said, let's get to it.