The Team’s preparation for the Standard every time a new set arrives is hastened due to the combined efforts of the members to contribute an amount every week for the funds to buy the cards. Even with the delays in the arrival of Guilds of Ravnica products to the local game stores from which we should open the single cards, we still considered buying the components from online sellers in Manila. We somewhat completed these decks by the end of October.

Below are the current Standard decks, which are finally built and ready to play.
1. Jeskai Control
2. Mono Red Aggro
3. Mono-Blue Tempo
4. Izzet Phoenix
5. Golgari Explore
6. Selesnya Tokens

The Boros Aggro is still in its final phase as there are a few cards left to acquire before its completion. There is a current conflict in the components as the card Legion’s Landing is also used in the Selesnya Tokens deck. We might need to purchase another playset for the Boros Weenie Aggro deck to utilize.

The next major tournament here in Iloilo City will be on December 2, 2018, with the Preliminary Pro Tour Qualifier. We had not finalized the venue, but I am pretty sure that this will be a highly attended event and that the competitive level is the same. I will be having a separate blog post for the tournament details.

That is a wrap for the team deck updates. Until the next post, and have a happy Thursday.

I have not yet talked with the group on our deck builds in this Standard rotation with the release of Guilds of Ravnica but I have thought of the possible decks archetypes. I can say that guild-based decks would be a norm in the new metagame or maybe the possibility of 3-color decks made up of two guilds that align with its colors.

Prior to the buy list, the current decks we have are: Mono Red Sligh, Mono Green Stompy, maybe Mono Black midrange or control and Blue White which lost some components but eventually got replaced with cards from the Izzet guild.

My current deck project is Selesnya Aggro which I already pre-ordered some its cards and we will be also building a Boros Aggro deck with similar components that of the Red Aggro. Another interesting project which we will discuss on and was mentioned before by Oliver is the Abzan Knights deck. It might be in conflict in components with the Black Green Midrange deck which at the moment I do not know how many components are yet to be bought. There are reference lists to be based on, but then we will have to agree on a final version.

The preorders are yet to be sent by next week so we just have to build at least two decks for the meantime. Hopefully I would get to open some components in the preordered box from Rei so as to hasten the completion of these decks. The lucky pulls would hopefully continue lol.

Team 14 has been in hiatus in Standard for the past few months, that is until something provoked them to come back playing in the format. The release of the Dominaria set is probably the main reason as the new card and deck strategies have opened to play, along with previously unplayed cards from the previous sets are now getting the spotlight in the metagame.

As for this post, the team has thought of the possible decks to build for the Dominaria Standard format. Here are the built decks as of this posting:

Blue Black Control
Mono Red Aggro switchable to Black Red Aggro

The current deck projects are as follows and will be completed once the purchase of relevant mythics from Dominaria are completed.

Blue White Control/Historic
Mono Green Aggro
Mono Blue Paradox Combo

This might take a while since some of the members are still busy catering the weekly Modern FNM at Critical Hit. I guess we should call again for the weekly dues so as to garner funds for these purchases.

Until the next post.

In time for another Team Standard deck update. Our recent members were Ace and Asai has provided us the use of their card pool and so it has greatly increased the number of decks that we can build. One month after the arrival of Amonkhet, we were able to purchase and gather enough components from the new set and immediately updated our deck before the Gameday last weekend. The recent Pro Tour was our primary reference for the decklists and so far here are the team’s deck lineup:

2 Temur Marvel
2 Mardu Vehicles
1 Mono Black Zombies
1 Red White Humans
1 Black Green Energy
1 Red Green Pummeler
1 Blue Red Control
1 Black Green Delirium