Pro Tour Dragon’s Maze will be on this coming weekend in San Diego California and two formats of this premier event are RTR Block Constructed and Booster draft. Block constructed isn’t that popular in the local scenario but they are on full swing on Magic Online, even before Dragon’s Maze was released.

Block decks will see action in the premier level this weekend, and a few builds seen already define the future of Standard post-Theros. Mono Red, American Control, Jund, Junk, among others are some of the decks that define this format.

Here is my suggested decklist for RTR Block (which is also one of the Honorable Mentions from Gavin Verhey’s Reconstructed article today):

Selesnya Tokens by Mark Ian Alloso
Return to Ravnica Block Constructed

Lands
8 Forest
8 Plains
4 Selesnya Guildgate
4 Temple Garden

Creatures
3 Armada Wurm
4 Gyre Sage
3 Loxodon Smiter
4 Scion of Vitu-Ghazi
2 Trostani, Selesnya’s Voice

Spells
3 Rootborn Defenses
2 Selesnya Keyrune
4 Advent of the Wurm
3 Collective Blessing
4 Selesnya Charm
4 Call of the Conclave

It’s sort of the usual token list, but powers up to Collective Blessing in the mid game. Advent of the Wurm somewhat completes the curve as a powerful four drop. Gyre Sage goes between early offense and a late ramp critter, getting you to the six mana asap.

Scion of Vitu-Ghazi gives you options on populate, mostly used on Wurm and Centaur tokens. It is also a 4/4 body by itself and a beater nevertheless.

Selesnya Charm is your sole utility card, but helps a lot in most situations. This is backed up by Rootborn Defenses as your ‘defense’ against mass removals. No pun intended.

To conclude, I think the tokens strategy is still much alive even in post rotation of Standard.

Until next post. Ciao.

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