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Chris Coyle at his kitchen table mid-game, smiling at the camera with a fanned hand of green-sleeved Magic cards, the battlefield laid out on a playmat in front of him
The kitchen table, August 2026. Mid-game, as always.

Chris Coyle

Creator of Manahaul · player since 1994

Manahaul creator Chris picked up his first Magic: The Gathering card in 1994, when he was in middle school. He has been playing Standard, Draft and Pioneer ever since and loves building and testing new decks.

He is the (self-proclaimed) best Bard Class Pioneer deck player in the world. He lives in North Kingstown, RI with his son Aiden and harasses him regularly to learn to play Magic, maybe someday he will.

First card 1994, middle school
Formats Standard · Draft · Pioneer
Home base North Kingstown, RI
Apprentice Aiden — recruitment ongoing

Manahaul comes from this table.

Every deck tested here used to end in five browser tabs of price checking. Manahaul is the tool Chris built so the table wins that argument: paste the list, see what's owned, buy the gap at the cheapest shipped total.

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Chris studying a fanned hand of sleeved cards, head down in mid-playtest thought
Mid-playtest. Aiden was not available for comment.