With the loss of Emrakul in Standard and the rise of the supposedly Black Green Constrictor-based decks, non-Blue control archetypes might have the chance again to get a slot in the metagame. One of which is Black White Control which was very popular back when Languish was still legal. Now it was replaced with Yahenni’s Expertise as the new Black sweep spell. The minus 3 minus 3 might look a bit inefficient to deal with large creatures but with its free spell bonus gains you a free spot removal and even a Liliana.
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AER Standard Deck Tech: B/G Energy
We were recently brewing some Standard decks with my friend Rey Victor and he mentioned of a Green Black version of the Pummeler Energy deck. Aether Revolt offered some new gears for the deck and the need for Red is somehow not that important. Continue reading
AER Standard Deck Tech: BG Aggro
The first major Standard tournament after Aether Revolt became legal to play in the format was the SCG Standard Open last weekend which was held in Columbus. One the deck archetypes that held a respectable finish was Black Green Aggro, powered Continue reading
Aether Revolt Release Weekend
The continuation set of the Kaladesh storyline, Aether Revolt, will be out for sale and automatically enter the Standard format this Friday. I referred to Friday as part of Magic weekends was based on the Grand Prix schedules which usually Continue reading
Standard Post-Banning Feels
The story is out and it was sort of a punch in the gut of our card pool. It has been six years and boom, another Standard bannings happened. The casualties: Emrakul, Smugglers Copter and Reflector Mage. They must have Continue reading
My Attempt on an Aetherborn Tribal Deck
As the blog post says it, I decided to create an initial decklist of this new tribe for the Aether Revolt Standard format. The main cause of this was the card Midnight Entourage. As I first saw this new Protoss err Aetherborn lord, I immediately Continue reading