It is a short notice but this weekend will be the War of the Spark Planeswalker Weekend, which is a pseudo-Gameday event of the previous sets. Local gamestore Pro Reis place has scheduled it on Saturday Continue reading
As the card spoilers for the upcoming special set Modern Horizons are revealed every day, it is funny and interesting to know which reprinted cards joining the format will have a major effect in the different top tier deck archetypes. Continue reading
The breakout decks last Starcity Games Standard Open was sort of expected: it was planeswalker-based. AS shown in the Top 8 decklists, almost 50 percent of the decks opted for a planeswalker tapout control strategy Continue reading
Two local game stores are hosting this week’s Magic: the Gathering tournaments. Nth Dimension has set its Standard Showdown event to be on a Wednesday night so as to not to conflict with the Saturday schedule Continue reading
Apologies for this late tournament report of the local Iloilo Prerelease for War of the Spark set but still, I am sharing my experience nonetheless. First off, the War of the Spark Prerelease event for the Philippines has been delayed Continue reading
It is the first Day of this weekend’s SCG Standard Open at Syracuse, New York and we have another wave of Standard decks at our disposal and which were featured on the round-by-round matchups streamed online. Unfortunately, upon checking their page, they have not listed the top decks yet aside from the deck tech on Simic Ramp by Eli Kassis. Kassis finished at 7-2 on Day 1 and here below is his decklist.
Creatures (19)
4 Arboreal Grazer
3 Hydroid Krasis
2 Incubation Druid
4 Jadelight Ranger
4 Llanowar Elves
2 Fblthp, the Lost
Planeswalkers (9)
3 Karn, the Great Creator
3 Nissa, Who Shakes the World
3 Ugin, the Ineffable
Spells (8)
2 Growth Spiral
2 Entrancing Melody
2 Neoform
2 Nissa’s Triumph
Lands (24)
10 Forest
6 Island
4 Breeding Pool
4 Hinterland Harbor
Sideboard
1 Navigator’s Compass
1 Sentinel Totem
2 Sorcerous Spyglass
1 Treasure Map
1 Meteor Golem
3 Thrashing Brontodon
3 Negate
1 God-Pharaoh’s Statue
1 Helm of the Host
1 The Immortal Sun
Here are some of the deck archetypes spotted while I was checking on the Twitch stream coverage of the current Starcity Games Standard Open at Syracuse.
Jeskai Superfriends
Grixis Control
Simic Ramp
Esper Control
Mono Red Aggro
I will follow up this post with some Top 8 deck lists tomorrow as the event continues with the second day and Top 8 playoffs. Stay tuned.