Mike Flores

Mike Flores has been a pundit and expert of Magic: The Gathering strategy since there has been Magic on the Internet; he is the former editor of The Magic Dojo and a sometime professional player. Most of his articles have been about Sligh and The Sligh Principle.

Mike Flores has been playing and writing about Magic since at least 1995, when he started writing on Usenet. He has subsequently written for The Dojo, Neutral Ground, Brainburst, magicthegathering.com, and Star City Games.

A largely un-edited collection of his columns from 1995 to 2005 was published by top8magic.com under the title Michael J. Flores: Deckade.

Flores is credited with the creation of several famous decks, including Napster and Jushi Blue. He has tested with a wide range of famous and more successful players including Jon Finkel, Osyp Lebedowicz, Mark Heberholz, and Adrian Sullivan.

Flores is held with contempt by a portion of the Magic community who feel he is too egotistical and gives himself too much credit for deck creation. He has also recieve a great deal of mockery due to his lack of success as a player, earning the nickname "Bad Player Flores". Despite this nickname, Flores has played on numerous Pro Tour events, participated in US Nationals three years in a row during the late 90s, been voted into the 2006 Magic Invitational in the Resident Genius category, and won the 2006 New York Standard Champs with This Girl.

Collected material:

Detailed "Sligh" Article about how it all began: by mike flores: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/daily/mf39