With the loss of Elspeth, Courser of Kruphix and Thoughtseize, most people assume that Abzan Control is dead in the Standard metagame after the release of Battle of Zendikar. Well Bradley Carpenter proved them wrong Continue reading
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BFZ Standard Deck Tech: Jund Sacrifice
My current experiment deck revolves around the “sacrifice” card synergy and it involves most of the new cards from Battle for Zendikar. The recent set has offered card components that fits this deck strategy. The main goal is to win via a pumped Continue reading
Standard Deck Feature: 5C Bring to Light
The Battle for Zendikar breakout card on last weekend’s Starcity Games Standard Open was the multicolored Sorcery Bring to Light. The card was featured in Pro player Gerry Thompson’s deck in which he played all five colors to utilize its maximum potential Continue reading
Big Red in BFZ Standard Part 2
Here is the updated decklist after researching through the possible components from the new set along with card interactions that will be effective to the current metagame based on last weekend’s results in the Starcity Games Standard Open. Continue reading
Standard Deck Tech: Black Red Devoid Aggro
So I have decided to build a deck out of the Battle for Zendikar card pool that we got from the Prerelease last Saturday. Good thing we got enough components to build around the decks. I referenced this build from Gavin Verhey’s column about Continue reading
Standard Mardu Tokens Non-Budget Version
The Battle for Zendikar set will be legal to play this coming Friday and so I am thinking that the metagame will rely on decks that are based on the tribes of Tarkir. One of which is the Mardu clan and my version of their archetype is the token-based build. Continue reading