I built a last-minute brew deck for the first Iloilo Gameday held last Saturday at Rei’s Place. Initially, the deck that I planned to pilot was the Sultai Control list that I found in the list of top-performing decks during the Aether Revolt Pro Tour but due to the card constraints with the Jeskai combo build, I decided to give way to my Blue components so that the deck will be completed.
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While reading through the topics posted at the Spikes subreddit, I came upon a tournament report of a person playing UR Dynavolt in their Gameday and which he faced a kid piloting a mono-Green aggro deck. The card composition according to the way his match went were Blistering Hydras, Servant of the Conduit, Tireless Tracker, and coupled with pump spells like Larger than Life. He posted an assumed decklist but I decided to refine it a bit.
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With the loss of Emrakul in Standard and the rise of the supposedly Black Green Constrictor-based decks, non-Blue control archetypes might have the chance again to get a slot in the metagame. One of which is Black White Control which was very popular back when Languish was still legal. Now it was replaced with Yahenni’s Expertise as the new Black sweep spell. The minus 3 minus 3 might look a bit inefficient to deal with large creatures but with its free spell bonus gains you a free spot removal and even a Liliana.
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The story is out and it was sort of a punch in the gut of our card pool. It has been six years and boom, another Standard bannings happened. The casualties: Emrakul, Smugglers Copter and Reflector Mage. They must have Continue reading
Taking into account the Standard metagame which has become stagnant again two months after Kaladesh was released, the team was able to complete most of the Top tier deck archetypes. That was just before the City Champs last December. It was just Continue reading
For those who are on a tight budget to play competitively in Standard, here is a decklist that I found which was played in a Saturday Showdown event in Caslav, Czech Republic. The deck finished in the Top 4 rank and was piloted by Michal Michal.
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