
Herbert, Fiona and I recently gathered at Fiona’s place to playtest on building the Magic Origins sealed pool. We took the booster packs from their Prerelease kits and a few from my prize packs and group them so that each of us have six boosters. Continue reading
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Exploring Elves in Origins Standard

The printing of several Elf cards in Magic Origins has got me interested in knowing the possibility of this archetype if it can compete in the Standard metagame. It maybe is viable but I think it won’t only concentrate on the aggro plan of attacking opponents with critters. Continue reading
Origins Standard Deck Tech: U/R Robots

Here is another deck tech blog post for Magic Origins Standard. As for this archetype, I revived an old strategy when Magic 2015 was first released. I nicknamed it as the ‘Take 5’ tech which revolved around Ensoul Artifact and Shrapnel Blast. Continue reading
Origins Standard Deck Tech: U/W Control

I have recently been a fan of control decks after I piloted Blue Black Control and won a Fate Reforged Gameday. When the Dragonlords were introduced, I shifted to Esper and played CFB’s list from the Pro Tour. Since then, the deck has been a staple archetype in the card pool Continue reading
Origins Standard Deck Tech: Jund Whip

For today’s Standard deck tech with Magic Origins, I am featuring a pseudo-ramp and midrange deck with a late game plan of recurring creatures from the graveyard. The little twist here though is the use of a Red enchantment from the new set called Continue reading
Origins Standard Deck Tech: Goblins

The reprinting of Goblin Piledriver in Magic Origins gave the Red aggro decks option to shift to the Goblins strategy, with Goblin Rabblemaster already as a powerhouse in the Standard metagame. Here is my initial decklist of the build in which I Continue reading