Now that it is the weekend for the Magic: the Gathering Prerelease of The Brother’s War, we are excited to try out these new cards for deck building in Standard, Pioneer, and other popular formats. What we are doing for today’s blog post is the possible new deck build for the Standard Rakdos Sacrifice Aggro deck.

If you have been checking on the metagame, that archetype goes with sacrificing artifacts to the Oni-Cult Anvil and constantly benefiting from it. Fortunately, this new set supplies a whole batch of artifact cards for use while maintaining the same deck strategy. The deck reference was made and submitted to the MTG Goldfish website by RarchN.

Here below is the preview of the full decklist of the Rakdos Mishra Build:

4 Haunted Ridge
4 Sulfurous Springs
5 Swamp
2 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
8 Mountain
1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance

4 Mishra, Claimed by Gix
2 Mishra, Excavation Prodigy
4 Oni-Cult Anvil
4 Phyrexian Dragon Engine
4 Powerstone Fracture
3 Rabbit Battery
4 Razorlash Transmogrant
3 Scrapwork Mutt
2 Transmogrant’s Crown
2 Visions of Phyrexia
4 Voltage Surge

I will do a video discussion of the deck build on my Youtube channel, DeathMarked TV, soon so stay tuned and make sure to turn on notifications on that.

As for every new Magic: the Gathering set’s full card spoilers are fully revealed officially, we usually go for the Mythic cards as to what their potential (Standard-worthy?) is in some of the formats of the game. We also check on their individual card prizes, if ever we get to open one of them, and if we can sell them to the hype or not. Considering that they are the money-grab of every new set.

As I have observed though, in the past, some Mythics cards get hype during the spoiler season and just plainly failed when used in metagame decks, for example, on Top-Tier Esper or Grixis decks in Standard. The usual routine is that we see some candidates, discuss their uses, pros, and cons, and do the playtesting once the full set is out. They often fall behind our expectations and become an option card for the deck. The price drop then follows.

Another test that I have noticed is when a card becomes a staple component in some old formats like Modern or Legacy, it usually retains a fixed high price, and that increases when a certain deck archetype that uses it got a Top tournament finish. In the worst, they get banned. See Oko.

Anyways, back to today’s topic. I made a Youtube video discussing some of the Mythics from The Brother’s War set and did the steps mentioned above. There are some candidates for Standard, but then again, we will see once actual games happen.

See the full video below.

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