The current dreaded deck in the Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Standard metagame is the two-card combo that consists of the cards The Book of Exalted Deeds and Faceless Haven. What is the best deck to make this as consistent as possible? Make a Mono-white deck.

Check out the Mono-White Control decklist below (sourced from the MTG Top8 website Standard decks).

While in pre-boarded games it is hard to be dealt with, opponents would surely bring land destruction cards in the sideboard to stop this combo. Of course, the deck would not only rely on this but also have the usual victory route of out-grinding the opponent. Yorion does that very well along with the late game Emeria’s Call casting Angels to deal damage.

Will it rank among the top decks in the Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Standard metagame? We shall see as this weekend’s online events happen in MTGO and Magic Arena.

Until the next blog post.

The Magic: the Gathering’s latest set to release, Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, has set the players into an adventure in which they can choose a job class or just plainly classes. These are represented in Enchantment cards which the new ability where they can ‘level up’ the enchantment to gain an effect.

Check out this one example card named Paladin Class.

At the initial level, it is a one-mana enchantment that taxes opponents’ spells cast during your turn. Works for only one Blue-based deck with counterspells but it is a good window for you to set up your board with attackers. That is because the next level will surely benefit them with an anthem pump. The last level is what an alpha strike would look like, giving your best-attacking creature +1/+1 for each other attacking creature and of course, double strike. I think this is an auto-addition to the current White Aggro deck in Standard or to that Boros Aggro version.

The other Class Enchantments spoiled so far are as follows. I am looking forward that most of these can see play in Standard as the set becomes legal to play in the coming weeks.

The card spoilers from Adventures in the Forgotten Realms can be found here.