Two Magic: the Gathering game stores will be the location for this Saturday’s Standard Constructed tournament. For Friday, we will be having only one tournament which will be FNM at Rei’s Place. The last Saturday Showdown will be pushed through the next day whereas Critical Hit Comics and Games will also be having its own Standard event. I would expect players to be divided between the two depending on their convenience.
For those who are on a tight budget to play competitively in Standard, here is a decklist that I found which was played in a Saturday Showdown event in Caslav, Czech Republic. The deck finished in the Top 4 rank and was piloted by Michal Michal.
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The Grand Prix weekend in Denver saw another Standard deck innovation courtesy of Weitz and Maynard, two members of the Team East West Bowls. They called the deck the boogeyman of the current metagame. It abuses the ability of the artifact Continue reading
Black Green Delirium was the deck to beat in the past weeks in the MTG Standard format. Last weekend’s Grand Prix in Denver though proved that the metagame has once again shifted. Looking at the Top 8 decks of the tournament, Continue reading
I expected an increase in attendance for the Saturday tournaments with the Wizard’s special Magic: the Gathering Saturday Showdown event and I was not disappointed. The first wave gathered around 16 participants, which was just one player short for a five-round of Swiss. Continue reading
Today’s deck tech reminded me of the Modern Dredge deck from the recent World Magic Cup. It is because of the same strategy of cheating creatures into the battlefield from the graveyard and would cost you at lesser or even zero mana. Continue reading