Jund Domination in SCG $5K Richmond, Virginia

Jund does it again! Yes folks, the Shards of Alara plane continues to dominate the Standard metagame with the recent top finish at Star City Games $5000 Open event in Richmond, Virginia. The pilot was Alex Bertoncini which had previous top finishes in the previous SCG events. He faced a Jund mirror matchup in the finals against Alessandro Culotti and proved he is the better Jund master. Here’s the list that he used: Read more

Some Interesting Extended Decks in GP Oakland

The Mtg 2010 Season kicked off with Grand Prix Oakland last weekend and as Day Two getting to a close, we saw pros perform on the last remaining rounds to get to the top 8. Well, the final eight has been decided as of the writing of this post. It features the best players and high level pros of Magic with the names Conley Woods, Tomoharu Saito and Adam Yurchick. The rest had big accomplishments in their playing career too. Read more

My Notable Worldwake Cards

The previous weekend was the worldwide release party of the recent Magic: The Gathering expansion, Worldwake, which was also the expansion set of Zendikar. As players talk about the powerful cards of the set (I’m referring to the new Jace and the demon Abyssal Persecutor) which can be a possible inclusion in the current Standard, I think I can say that Worldwake isn’t that impressive like Zendikar. There are a number of playable cards though, waiting to be discovered and abused. Let’s take a look at the candidates. Read more

Worldwake Spoiler Update

Here’s the recent update of the upcoming Worldwake, Zendikar’s 2nd set. The spoiler season has been a little slow today as we have only revealed about 46 cards out of 145 cards in the set. Here they are:

White (8)

Name:	Admonition Angel
Cost:	3WWW
Type:	Creature - Angel
Pow/Tgh:	6/6
Rules Text:	Flying Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may exile target nonland permanent other than Admonition Angel. When Admonition Angel leaves the battlefield, return all cards exiled with it to the battlefield under their owners’ control.
Rarity:	Mythic Rare
Set Number:	#1/145
Name:	Hada Freeblade
Cost:	W
Type:	Creature - Human Soldier Ally
Pow/Tgh:	0/1
Rules Text:	Whenever Hada Freeblade or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Hada Freeblade.
Rarity:	Uncommon
Set Number:	#7/145
Name:	Join the Ranks
Cost:	3W
Type:	Instant
Rules Text:	Put two 1/1 white Soldier Ally creature tokens onto the battlefield.
Rarity:	Common
Set Number:	#9/145
Name:	Kitesail Apprentice
Cost:	W
Type:	Creature - Kor Soldier
Pow/Tgh:	1/1
Rules Text:	As long as Kitesail Apprentice is equipped, it gets +1/+1 and has flying.
Illus.	Austin Hsu
Rarity:	Common
Set Number:	#10/145
Name:	Kor Firewalker
Cost:	WW
Type:	Creature - Kor Soldier
Pow/Tgh:	2/2
Rules Text:	Protection from red Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may gain 1 life.
Rarity:	Uncommon
Name:	Ruin Ghost
Cost:	1W
Type:	Creature - Spirit
Pow/Tgh:	1/1
Rules Text:	{W}, {T}: Exile target land you control, then return it to the battlefield under your control.
Flavor Text:	“Haunting us, these different meanings and spectral beings. We’re fighting sleep with broken, rusted weaponry.”
Rarity:	Uncommon
Set Number:	#19/145
Name:	Talus Paladin
Cost:	3W
Type:	Creature - Human Knight Ally
Pow/Tgh:	2/3
Rules Text:	Whenever Talus Paladin or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may have Allies you control gain lifelink until end of turn and you may put a +1/+1 counter on Talus Paladin.
Rarity:	Rare
Set Number:	#21/145
Name:	Terra Eternal
Cost:	2W
Type:	Enchantment
Rules Text:	All lands are indestructible.
Rarity:	Rare
Set Number:	#22/145

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Magic 2011 Announced

Wizards announced yesterday at Magic Arcana regarding the next upcoming Core set in Magic: The Gathering Trading card game, Magic 2011 which will be released this July 16, 2010. The set is dubbed “A set everyone can sink their teeth into.” which made me think of new interesting cards they’re going to include. Here’s a part of the announcement: Read more

Mono Black Vampires Deck Update

Hi all, here is a recent update of our build on Mono Black Vampires in Standard. For your info, Vampires has done pretty well in the recent Magic: The Gathering Worlds championship. It has finished undefeated (6-0) in Day 1 of that event despite being less popular with only 4 players piloting the deck.

The deck’s build varies mainly based on the meta. Well, we can say that today’s meta is still infested with variations of Jund which is still the best deck of choice. The deck will be adjusted to go anti to that. We’ve done a few playtests and tweaks to the list and here are my observations: Read more

How to Deal With Jund

Hi all. It may be known to you or you have noticed lately that the Jund aggro seems to be the most dominating deck in the current Zendikar Standard.

As I have checked on the recent tournaments on Magic Online and on Magic-League, the results have proved it. It seems that the new cards aren’t enough to counter the power of the Cascade spells.

However, we analyze a few weaknesses of the deck, which later on we can use to adjust to our deck building strategies. Here are a few of them: Read more

The Reward is Cheese: New MTG Promo Cards

Hi all. This is just an update for the promo cards on our upcoming tournaments this Zendikar standard season. First off, it has been announced before that we will have Nissa’s Chosen as the promo card for Zendikar Game Day tournaments but didn’t have the image yet. Well here’s one courtesy of eBay. Read more

Yuuya Watanabe Wins Grand Prix Melbourne

Grand Prix Melbourne in Australia finished with Yuuya Watanabe winning on top. Yuuya defeated a fellow Japanese and Pro player Tomoharu Saito with his blue-black deck with the bomb rare Sphinx of Jwar Isle. Saito drafted a controllish black green deck with 2 Marsh Casualties, the Vampire legend Kalitas, Bloodchief of Ghet, and with splash for blue and red. Their record was two games to one. Here are the drafted deck list of the two. Read more

Black Red Blightning in Zendikar Standard

Hi all, happy Friday! I hope your weekend will be productive, both in Mtg tournaments and other stuff. For this post, I’ll take an analysis on the Black Red Blightning deck which was one of the top decks in pre-Zendikar Standard. The deck suffered a lot on this rotation with the loss of its important components. We said goodbye to Demigod of Revenge, Figure of Destiny, Boggart Ram-Gang, Flame Javelin and to the black red lands Auntie’s Hovel and Graven Cairns. The question now is: Is the deck still competitive enough in the new Standard? We’ll soon find out as Zendikar becomes legal on tournaments this weekend. Read more

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