Dimir Self-Bounce vs. Azorius Control: A Battle of Tempo and Attrition

A Dimir Self-Bounce deck in Magic: The Gathering revolves around the strategic reuse of creatures and spells by returning them to the player’s hand. This archetype is primarily built in blue and black colors(Dimir), leveraging blue’s ability to bounce creatures and black’s synergy with recursion and graveyard interactions.

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Interesting PT Aetherdrift Standard Deck: Esper Paragon

A total of 349 Standard decklists were submitted for the Magic: the Gathering Pro Tour Aetherdrift event this weekend, but a few truly stand out. The most exciting ones feature creative card synergies, introduce a fresh archetype, or pull off an unexpected strategy that catches everyone by surprise.

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MTG Selesnya Tokens Standard Deck Returns in SCG CON Atlanta

A tokens deck in Magic: The Gathering is one of the renowned deck strategies that revolve around creating a large number of creature tokens to overwhelm opponents through sheer numbers. I remembered it as one of my iconic decks in the past during my competitive prime as a Magic: the Gathering player.   

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Standard Dimir Midrange Matchups with Mono-Red Aggro

The Magic: the Gathering Arena Gameplay that we have been doing with the team is mainly to playtest our decks in the current Standard format. With the newest set, MTG Foundations, added, we are again forced or rather need to grind daily to acquire the new card components and update our deck builds in the Magic: the Gathering Arena platform.

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Orzhov Midrange gains a Good Late-Game Value in DSK Standard Metagame

The current Standard metagame with the new Duskmourn set has become more interesting with the new card strategies introduced. The set impacted several archetypes, and a few other existing deck builds adjusted their components. The one archetype our card pool team has been working on in MTG Arena is the Orzhov Midrange deck.

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MTG Duskmourn Standard Deck Tech Feature: Azorius Auras

The Magic: the Gathering Duskmourn set has introduced an enchantment-based mechanic and strategy and made a reprint in Standard for the card Ethereal Armor. Thus, the return of the Auras deck in the format is truly confirmed. Deck builds of the archetype have been sprouting from various websites and MTG Youtubers are also making a list.

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