Category Archives: Magic The Gathering

MTG Arena Standard BO1 Deck Tech: Gruul Smash

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What is Magic: the Gathering Red-Green Gruul’s deck main theme? To smash with huge, hasty creatures to end opponents as soon as possible. Placing it into the paper, a deck with creatures that get pumped with their Landfall ability. Sure they are fast to kill but how are they resilient to spot removal? They are not. They are easily picked off even by Shock or a ping effect. The deck needs to evolve and here we have an updated list with ETB (Enters the Battlefield) abilities while maintaining a fatty power/toughness.

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Standard Deck Idea for Magic Arena BO1

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The Magic: the Gathering Standard Best of 1 Format in Magic Arena is one of my preferred modes because of the lack of card components in my original account’s card pool. The advantage is if you win, the opponent has no chance to get back with the sideboarded games. That is also the drawback if you get to face a deck that has more edge than your build. Anywho, I can say that this is the best mode to grind fast your rank if you get to build the best deck fitted for the BO1 gameplay.

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Magic: the Gathering Standard AFR Dark Gruul Aggro Deck

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What fascinates me when building Magic: the Gathering Standard decks is the color splashing that they do to be efficient in countering other metagame decks. Adding a third color goes beyond the traditional build with the minimal drawback of not getting the right lands for example. In today’s Standard AFR deck feature, we have a Gruul Aggro list that went “dark” by having access to Black’s strong spot removals. Not to mention the main deck Valki, God of Lies.

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Innistrad Midnight Hunt Card Preview: Infernal Grasp

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While I still haven’t experience the tabletop gameplay of Standard with Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, the next set’s card previews got an initial launch with an announcement from the Magic: the Gathering Official Facebook page. The Innistrad: Midnight Hunt inital previews was streamed on their Twitch channel and was also posted on Daily MTG website right after. The excitement of new cards again with the comparison of the previous Innistrad sets gets me the feel of the set’s theme and mechanics improving.

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Magic: the Gathering Standard 2022 Deck: Rakdos Berserkers

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Magic: the Gathering Standard 2022 is a Magic Arena-specific format where the newest sets are included without the requirement to battle the Top decks in the current Standard format. This opens to a variety of deck creations that were before toppled by the high gear cards from the older sets. The new cards from the Adventures in the Forgotten Realms also provided a bunch of deck strategies to explore with.

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