Last Saturday, I was assigned as the tournament organizer of our weekly local Saturday Standard event and took this opportunity to ask our fellow Ilonggo MTG players on what are their take on the upcoming new set, The Brother’s War, in terms of the favorite cards and other notables for the Standard format. It has been a while since I did this kind of video interview and it is a good thing that it was timing just weeks before the set is released.
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With the Magic: the Gathering’s 30th Anniversary event last weekend, inline with this celebration are various card previews of the upcoming Brother’s War set are being released in the venue and also reflected online in Reddit threads, website forums, and other spoiler sites.
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While the official Brother’s War card previews have hit the Internet from the official WotC website and other spoiler sources, we are still looking at how the current decks in the Standard format would adjust and adopt the new cards. It is fun but is quite a challenge.
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The Magic: the Gathering deck building in DMU Standard is continuous, in particular, the list that are keep getting adjusted to the format’s metagame and at the least weekly. The one deck I will feature in today’s blog post is the Broker’s Ascendancy deck which I think got a relevant makeover to go with the metagame of Esper Raffine, Jund Windgrace, and Grixis Sol’ Kanar.
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Last weekend, another major Magic was the Gathering local tournament for the MTG Iloilo Community. It was another APAC League qualifiers event, with Standard as the primary format. There was a total of 19 players in attendance, me included. Huge prizes are at stake so yeah, we had to send out three players and maximize the decks from the card pool.
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There are times in the Magic: the Gathering deck-building sessions when you would want something different out of the usual lineup. It might not be actually an entirely 100% of the same two-color or three-color decks but there are cards that you would want to try out of the curiosity that this or that strategy will work.
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