Citations:monoblue

English citations of monoblue

Adjective: "(Magic: The Gathering) featuring or using only only blue cards"

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• 1997 August 12, Manuel Bevand, “Green's Back!”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy‎^[1] (Usenet):

  If you're facing a monoblue or monoblack deck, dervishes or boas will take the opponent down, and the "boost spells" will allow them to survive quicksands (all monocolored decks have some quicksands).

• 1997 October 1, Chris Byler, “Re: Silly magic players”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy‎^[2] (Usenet):

  Pit Trap is better, even for monoblue decks.

• 1997 October 8, Paul Miller, “Re: Abeyance Neutered”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy‎^[3] (Usenet):

  Stasis, by itself, is an alright card... decent for stalling in a monoblue deck (just trust me on this one), and it gives a really good ability, shutting down all untapping.

• 1998 February 13, Gus, “Re: Fog Elemental - deck idea?”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy‎^[4] (Usenet):

  I saw a guy play a monoblue deck with lots of counters, FE's, Seers, and Ophids. (4 Ophids - staple for monoblue) He was drawing cards like there was no tomorrow, and that is, as we all know, a sure way to win.

• 1998 March 13, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, “Re: It's time to Ban Perish”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy‎^[5] (Usenet):

  still, scragnoth pretty much spells death for a monoblue player.

• 1998 September 16, Giles C Hjort-Tyson, “Thoughts on current decks.”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy‎^[6] (Usenet):

  I had an intersting^[sic] conversation tonight, with someone who said that there are only 3 monoblue decks that are tournment^[sic] viable.

• 1998 October 7, Michael Aten, “You'll have to excuse my friend...he's a little slow”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy‎^[7] (Usenet):

  Or a monoblue deck that outdraws it regardless of how many Duresses you draw?

• 2000 December 14, Jonathan Mellette, “CounterSliver vs. Trix...”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy‎^[8] (Usenet):

  I've been playing Trix since I started fooling around with the Illusions/Donate combo in a monoblue deck, […]

• 2002 January 2, Avenging Angel [username], “Thoughts on current decks.”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy‎^[9] (Usenet):

  The deck I'm building is a monoblue counter/bouncer control deck.