When playing Magic: The Gathering (MTG), sideboarding is a crucial aspect that can significantly impact the outcome of your matches. In my experience as an Aggro deck player, I list down sideboard cards that are good to draw in the midgame and late game and can give either card advantage, or board advantage in the matchup. However, comparing the card to align with your deck’s game plan can be quite a challenge, especially against Midrange decks where opponents play a combination of creatures and powerful spells.
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How Magic: The Gathering Aggro Decks Sideboard Against Control Decks
Magic: The Gathering (MTG) is a complex and strategic card game where players build decks to compete against one another. An important aspect of competitive MTG is sideboarding—modifying your deck with a set of extra cards between games in a match to better adapt to specific opponents.
Continue readingWhy Magic: The Gathering’s Pauper Format Remains Popular
Magic: The Gathering (MTG), a game known for its complexity and depth, has a variety of formats catering to different player preferences. Among these, Pauper stands out due to its unique appeal and sustained popularity. Today’s blog post delves into and counts the reasons why Pauper continues to be a beloved format among MTG players.
Continue readingThe Magic: the Gathering Standard Format is Still Healthy
The current Magic: the Gathering Standard format is looking to be a healthy metagame in the sense that the balance of the top-tier deck archetypes is moderated fairly. There is no deck build that seems to be overwhelming other decks and the sideboard can basically answer most of them.
Continue readingDetermining Magic: the Gathering Cards that will Have Value in the Long Run
Buying new Magic: the Gathering cards from the recently-released sets for investment purposes can be quite a challenge. It is usually hit-or-miss on the cards that will spike up in price and with a lot of factors to consider like playability, etc.
Continue readingThe Efficient Ways of Collecting and Investing in Magic: the Gathering Cards
During my early days of playing Magic: the Gathering TCG, I had my budget only for spending to buy the necessary card components for my decks. It was really limited at that time so I only chose the cheapest price if possible. Later when I learned about the TCG market and the potential of some cards in financial value, I became wary of the cards that I traded or invested in early on and checked if its worth the price.
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