The recent GP Kitakyushu last weekend presented the Japanese take on the Standard metagame. It seemed that Kibler reached its shores with his influential Gruul aggro. Bant Hexproof though made it on top piloted by Malaysian Raymond Tan. Continue reading
The Standard tournament at yesterday’s Cosplayfest was very much a success. Thirty four players joined the event (the largest number so far) so it was six rounds of gameplay. Here are the top eight decks that made it after the preliminary rounds. Continue reading
In a month or so we will be bidding farewell to Innistrad block as the latest big set Theros enter Standard. I’d say it was an awesome experience to play the dark Scandinavian themed set, casting Zombies and Werewolves and the Humans as the protagonist. Continue reading
M14 Coreset depicted the return of Slivers in Standard. Though personally their inclusions in the set aren’t that significant, they still present a potential archetype. The strong colors they’ve represented are white, red, and green or nicknamed as Naya. Continue reading
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.