Standard Mono Black Control Deck October 4th Week Update

In the recent Magic: the Gathering Standard event tournament results, I have identified the deck build of Mono-Black archetypes is on Snow lands and creature sacrifice effects. The snow-covered lands mainly because of access to Faceless Haven, and the benefit from the Snow Sorcery Blood on the Snow. That sacrifice effects trigger the Learn ability, which can fetch late-game Lessons such as Mascot Exhibition.

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Magic: the Gathering Innistrad: Crimson Vow Teaser from Maro

For today’s Magic: the Gathering news on the upcoming set Innistrad: Crimson Vow, Maro, or Mark Rosewater posted on his Tumblr account and on a Tweet earlier about a list of teasers on what cards will contain the previews. As we all love to ponder and guess on partial information, he posted the teasers ala-Duelist style.

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Magic: the Gathering Standard Deck Update: White Weenie Aggro

Last weekend’s Magic: the Gathering Standard tournaments and events garnered a whole bunch of decklists of various archetypes. MTG Top 8 dot com is again my go-to website. This is where we are going to get today’s deck update and feature, and the lucky deck chosen is White Weenie Aggro. This was piloted by a well-known Pro Player, Frank Karsten. He finished in Top 4 of the Red Bull Untapped 2021 International Stop I tournament, where he probably lost to a Mono-Green finalist.

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The Best Endgames for Standard Control Decks

While checking on Magic: the Gathering news and the recent stuff on this card game, I have stumbled upon one discussion post on Reddit Spikes where the author asked what are the best endgame gameplay for Azorious and Dimir Control decks. We know that the current control decks in Standard do what they do best: controlling the board until it draws its win condition.

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Mean Green Tops the Most Played Creatures in Innistrad Standard

In the recent Magic: the Gathering Standard tournaments and events posted at MTG Top Eight, I have checked on the statistics of the top creatures played in the format, and it showed that composed of the Green Aggro deck.

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Magic: the Gathering Izzet Dragons Deck Update (October 3rd Week)

To summarize today’s Magic: the Gathering Standard deck update blog post: This is still the deck beat in the format. No kidding, it is the top-tier deck archetype since winning the World Championships. Untapping with a 4/4 Flying Haste Dragon that craps out Lotus Petals will just then be followed by Alrund’s Epiphany and the turns will not come back from the opponent. Probably the notable update of this list is the variance of one-of spells included to answer particular scenarios.

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