It has been a while since I updated my Magic: the Gathering Rakdos (Black-Red) lands collection and the relevant good news (but still requires some funding for purchase) was the reprinting of Sulfurous Springs in Dominaria United. The card’s variance was my concern as there is regular art and borderless art. The same is applied to the Haunted Ridge card from Innistrad: Midnight Hunt.
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Here is some New Year good news. The local Magic: the Gathering Pioneer weekly tournaments are now having an increase in player support, and the added participants are those having a holiday vacation here in Iloilo City. The first Pioneer FNM tournament of the year 2023 got 12 participants and much more if not others having conflicting schedules. I was able to drop by Reis’s place and took some videos for vlog content which I will post this weekend.
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Hello Geists, how is the new year going for you so far? I hope it is good and we should welcome the year right and on the positive side of things. Anywho, this blog received good news for the start of the year which I will disclose soon. For now, we will just continue with the Magic: the Gathering deck techs in Standard and soon with Pioneer in the mix.
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I named this blog post today for the Magic: the Gathering Standard deck tech with the key term “fully pledged” because of the reason that the recent Esper decks in the format go with the Raffine Tempo strategy. While it seems to be the best choice even with the inclusion of the Brother’s War set, there are still some valid ways to go with a straightforward control deck. That one goes with a late-game plan but holds the opponents’ early board development with efficient control cards.
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Based on the recent Magic: the Gathering tournaments and events posted online from my reference website MTG Top8, I have been considering this particular deck archetype as to how it would par with the top-tier decks in the format. The deck build is Mono-White Control but this decklist I have found is having a good ratio of the creatures and non-creature spells.
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Various Magic: the Gathering tournaments and events had been ongoing on various online platforms on MTG Arena and Magic Online, and the Standard results are continuously updated on the MTG Top 8 website. That is a good site to do some deck references and also get an update on what are the trending cards used in the metagame of formats like Standard and Pioneer.
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