MTG – How to Deal With Jund

Hi all. It may be known to you or you have noticed lately that the Jund aggro seems to be the most dominating deck in the current Zendikar Standard.

As I have checked on the recent tournaments on Magic Online and on Magic League, the results have proven it. It seems that the new cards aren’t enough to counter the power of the Cascade spells.

However, we analyze a few weaknesses of the deck, which later on we can use to adjust to our deck-building strategies. Here are a few of them:

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The Reward is Cheese: New MTG Promo Cards

Hi all. This is just an update for the promo cards on our upcoming tournaments this Zendikar standard season. First off, it has been announced before that we will have Nissa’s Chosen as the promo card for Zendikar Game Day tournaments but didn’t have the image yet. Well here’s one courtesy of eBay. Continue reading

Yuuya Watanabe Wins Grand Prix Melbourne

Grand Prix Melbourne in Australia finished with Yuuya Watanabe winning on top. Yuuya defeated a fellow Japanese and Pro player Tomoharu Saito with his blue-black deck with the bomb rare Sphinx of Jwar Isle. Saito drafted a controllish black green deck with 2 Marsh Casualties, the Vampire legend Kalitas, Bloodchief of Ghet, and with splash for blue and red. Their record was two games to one. Here are the drafted deck list of the two. Continue reading

MTG Black Red Blightning in Zendikar Standard

Hi all, happy Friday! I hope your weekend will be productive in Mtg tournaments and other stuff. For this post, I’ll analyze the Black Red Blightning deck, one of the top decks in pre-Zendikar Standard. The deck suffered a lot on this rotation with the loss of its important components. We said goodbye to Demigod of Revenge, Figure of Destiny, Boggart Ram-Gang, Flame Javelin, and to the black red lands Auntie’s Hovel and Graven Cairns. The question now is: Is the deck still competitive enough in the new Standard? We’ll soon find out as Zendikar becomes legal on tournaments this weekend.

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Tournament Report: Zendikar Prerelease

Hey all. I hope you all had a good Magic: the Gathering Zendikar prerelease weekend opening your desired fetchlands, Planeswalkers and other good cards. I just felt bad because Saturday was also the day that the tropical storm Ondoy ravaged our nation’s capital Manila and the nearby provinces. Casualties and death are still increasing as of the moment and I hope those people affected get enough help to return their lives to normal.

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Post Zendikar Decks: Vampires

Hey all. This is my third take on the possible decks in post Zendikar Standard metagame. Previously I’ve discussed about the Ally class in Zendikar and for this post we will go with the deck that may possibly give rise to Black to be a Tier 1 deck in Standard. I’m referring to the Mono black Vampires deck.

To recall, Magic 2010 core set has given us a hint on the Vampire tribe with Vampire Aristocrat and the mythic rare Vampire Nocturnus. Let us see what Zendikar vampires we could use for the deck. (Refer to the Zendikar spoilers for card info.) Continue reading