Another weekend means another chance to compete in Magic: the Gathering tournaments, whether in your local game store if they are now allowing face-to-face gameplay or on online platforms like Magic Online and Arena for their scheduled events. Our local Magic Iloilo also held an Arena tournament last night though I was not able to check on the results from our TO Rei.
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Here we thought that old Magic: the Gathering set mechanics in Standard aside from Eldraine’s Adventures is already out of the picture on the metagame. Today’s Standard deck feature proved that wrong. The archetype is mentioned in the blog article’s title. Yes, that is Simic Mutate, a more straightforward deck build than the previously known Jeskai Mutate deck.
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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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