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

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

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

Tournament Report: Zendikar Prerelease

Hey all. I hope you all had a good Zendikar prerelease weekend opening your desired fetchlands, Planeswalkers and other good cards. I just felt bad because Saturday was also the day that the tropical storm Ondoy ravaged our nation’s capital Manila and the nearby provinces. Casualties and death are still increasing as of the moment and I hope those people affected get enough help to return their lives to normal. Read more

Zendikar Full Spoiler

Here is the full Zendikar spoiler completed just hours ago at MTG Salvation. Zendikar has a total cards of 249.

White(39/39)

Armament Master - WW
Creature - Kor Soldier (Rare)
Other Kor creatures you control get +2/+2 for each Equipment attached to Armament Master.
2/2
Illus. Steven Belledin
#1/249

Arrow Volley Trap - 3WW
Instant - Trap (Uncommon)
If four or more creatures are attacking, you may pay {1}{W} rather than pay Arrow Volley Trap’s mana cost.
Arrow Volley Trap deals 5 damage divided as you choose among any number of target attacking creatures.
#2/249

Bold Defense - 2W
Instant (Common)
Kicker {3}{W}
Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. If Bold Defense was kicked, those creatures get +2/+2 and first strike instead.

Brave the Elements - W
Instant (Uncommon)
Choose a color. White creatures you control gain protection from the chosen color until end if turn.

Caravan Hurda - 4W
Creature - Beast (Common)
Lifelink
1/5

Celestial Mantle - 3WWW
Enchantment - Aura (Rare)
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.
Whenever enchanted creature deals combat damage to a player, double its controller’s life total.
Illus. Steve Argyle
#6/249 Read more

Post Zendikar Decks: Vampires

Hey all. This is my third take on the possible decks in post Zendikar Standard metagame. Previously I’ve discussed about the Ally class in Zendikar and for this post we will go with the deck that may possibly give rise to Black to be a Tier 1 deck in Standard. I’m referring to the Mono black Vampires deck.

To recall, Magic 2010 core set has given us a hint on the Vampire tribe with Vampire Aristocrat and the mythic rare Vampire Nocturnus. Let us see what Zendikar vampires we could use for the deck. (Refer to the Zendikar spoilers for card info.) Read more

Post Zendikar Decks: The ‘Allies’

Happy Friday all. Its been a while since my last quality post because of a messed mind set. Maybe its an effect of the awesomeness of card previews this week which confused me on which one to write first. Anyway, I better do this first before I loss the momentum.

The next prediction I will make on the post Zendikar decks in Standard would be the new breed of a tribe deck or rather a creature sub class. Yes, I’m talking about Zendikar’s Ally creatures. Since Zendikar’s theme focused on treasures, quests, and traps, these class of citizens in Zendikar adds up as an ally or allies to help in your adventures and achieving them.  Lets take a look at a few Ally class creatures spoiled so far. Read more

Zendikar Spoiler Count

Hey all. At the moment, we have almost a third of the cards spoiled for the upcoming Zendikar set. The current count is 98 cards spoiled/revealed at various sites and sources. We divide these cards by color and land and we have: White: 11, Blue: 12, Black: 16, Red: 12, Green: 15, Colorless: 3, Land: 9 and Basic Land: 20. Here are the spoiled cards: Read more

Post Zendikar Decks: Naya Aggro

The Standard rotation is drawing near. We will be saying goodbye to our Lorwyn tribe buddies, specifically the aggressive kithkins, the gentle Treefolks, the fiery Elementals, the Elves and the ever hated tribe that ruled most of the Standard, the Faeries. At this time, I’m guessing you are already predicting and preparing for the decks after the rotation. Most will probably stick with the decks from the Shards block or try the mono color theme Zendikar offers. Read more

More Zendikar Land Art Goodies

Hey all. I hope you had a fun weekend. I’m sure you are all excited to see the start of the Zendikar previews today. There was quite a lot added today in the visual spoiler as well the card previews from today’s articles (we gotta thank them because despite the Labor Day holiday, they still went with the previews). Anyway in case you haven’t heard, fetchlands are back in Zendikar. This time its with the enemy colors. Check out Arid Mesa: Read more

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