The Magic: the Gathering Tournament Reports is usually started with a short back story as to how the deck archetypes and their components were completed. At that time, I may have been fond of sharing these stories to give them a more flavorful detail, and on what I will be planning soon on the decks based on their tournament performance.
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MTG Streets of New Capenna Standard Deck Tech: Cabaretti Aggro
One of the deck archetypes that I am looking to build in the Streets of New Capenna Standard is the Naya or Cabaretti Aggro. The current support lands to these colors are already stable enough, and with the new tri-land inclusion and some Treasure-producing creatures, it is now possible to curve an aggressive start for an aggro deck build. That is also with lesser worries on the color screw.
Continue readingSlowly Building our Magic: the Gathering Standard Card Pool
With the return of the weekly Magic: the Gathering Saturday Standard tournament at our LGS Pro Reis place, our card pool is now quite obliged to build some of the Standard deck archetypes in the format and in the process become competitive again in the local gaming scene. This part is what we missed being one since the start of the pandemic
Continue readingStreets of New Capenna Prerelease Promo is Random & Not Themed
Based on the video done by Gavin Verhey in opening a Streets of New Capenna Prerelease kit, the promo foil card is random and won’t likely align with the crime family you have chosen. In the video which I watched the morning before going to work, he got a foil PR promo Titan of Industry wherein the Green color is not aligned to the family he chose, though in the deck-building he can try to add it to the list.
Continue readingMagic: the Gathering Streets of New Capenna Preorders: A Go or No?
The main reason for doing the preorder of sealed Magic: the Gathering products and single cards is to securely acquire the cards first-hand on their release dates. For my take, I did some preorders so I could do an unboxing video for each of them and also as an update for my YT channel. New unboxing content perhaps?
Continue readingMagic: the Gathering Capenna Standard Deck Tech: Obscura Humans
I am starting the week with a Magic: the Gathering Standard deck tech for the Streets of New Capenna and the approach I took was sort of a reference from a deck archetype in the Modern format. That deck is the Five-Color Humans and my Standard version is taking some of the new cards from the Obscura Family to power the deck build.
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