Last night was a huge announcement stream from Wizards of the Coast about their plans for 2022 wherein they revealed the Magic: the Gathering sets for each quarter of next year. The four new sets announced were Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty for the 1st quarter, New Capenna for the 2nd quarter, Dominaria United for the 3rd quarter, and finally The Brothers War for the 4th quarter.
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A Few Magic: the Gathering websites are usually a goldmine when they have this feature of their patrons and visitors submitting their decklist ideas. Aside from the Top Tier decks in the Standard format, for instance, you can also check on some build strategies that you may have missed out on. Expect them though to be lesser in power as compared to the current metagame decks.
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Planeswalkers play a role in the Magic: the Gathering Standard format metagame in sustaining your main objective of winning against an opponent. Their various loyalty abilities can suffice to their high-mana cost, and as seen in the recent sets, the average casting cost of a planeswalker is five.
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In the past Magic: the Gathering Standard format metagame, there is no missing point of facing a Mono-Red aggro match in your local game store and on online platforms like Magic Arena. This deck archetype seems to stick like a piece of gum on the shoe of every metagame and is barely affected by the Standard rotation. What makes it the best deck choice among most players is its consistency and fast gameplay that will certainly catch opponents off-guard.
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Last Saturday we saw finally an activity in our local Magic: the Gathering Iloilo community. That is because we were finally able to hold our tournament via the Magic Arena platform. I sense the local players were very eager to play Magic again but because of the several weeks of ECQ here in Iloilo City, even the Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Prerelease was moved to a later date.
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In my experience in the past while playing Magic: the Gathering Standard format, one of the impactful gameplays is how people cheat huge and devastating creatures into play/battlefield. Also, a bonus is that those creatures get to have enter-the-battlefield effects which makes them worthy even if you were able to destroy them on the spot. Having those costly mana costs is no problem as they only use reanimation spells to get them online and just plainly win from there. I can say that it is one of the pillars of the Magic: the GAthering gameplay as Wizards still continue to print newer versions of these reanimate spells.
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