Just a few hours earlier today, Wizards officially unveiled the complete card set of Dark Ascension. After checking each of the new cards, my general reaction regarding the set is a big “mehh…” Dark Ascension is good flavor-wise but most of the cards are not Standard-worthy. Continue reading
Last weekend was a really busy one for Magic communities around the globe. A few countries held their National Championships (including here in the Philippines) and the US had two major events, the SCG 5k at Richmond and the TCGPlayer 75k Champs in Chicago. It seems that more pros attended the latter event, with deck techs featured on the site. Let us check out a few of them. Continue reading
The banning surely had opened up the Magic: the Gathering Standard metagame to new decks and punished a few old ones. Cawblade is the one primarily affected though based on the recent results of big events in the US and various National Championships, the deck is still a powerhouse even without the mind sculptor and the mystic. That would be another topic though as this article is about the other deck affected by the banning, the Boros aggro.
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