I have been playing the game for years on end and preparing for a major MtG event usually gets me into serious mode. The recent Pro Tour Qualifier for Journey to Nyx was no exception. It felt like the schedule was a bit too early. The preparation time was a little short Continue reading
I finally got first place in Friday Night Magic after months of drought of winning the said event. The deck I played is Red Green Monsters: the current archetype I am testing in preparation for the PTQ this February 15th. Continue reading
So we have this somewhat new deck archetype experiment to open in the first tournament of the year of Magic Iloilo. Raoul suggested this list from the recent GP Shizouka trial winner decks. The deck is a remake of the Auras deck that somewhat Continue reading
It is a New Year and another year for Magic: the Gathering that we are all to enjoy. That also means that we have new deck archetypes to explore in Standard, even three months after Theros was released. The deck today that I’ll go into detail about is the Esper Midrange from Grand Prix Shizuoka. Though going midrange shines in the late game, it is typically weak against aggressive decks. My version for the deck goes more on an Orzhov Humans approach.
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When I think about the deck tech to feature for this weekly column, my usual routine is to through the cards from a recently released set and evaluates its potential interactions with other cards in Standard. One example when Sire of Insanity was released, wherein I built Continue reading
The evolution continues. As we might have already noticed, Standard is currently changing to deal with dominating deck archetypes as in the time of Affinity where certain decks rose to defeat it. It might be of the same level as the current but the same concept of dealing with the deck is still adapted.