Magic: The Gathering aggro decks are moving to dominate the local MTG Iloilo metagame with the top finishes in the recent weekly Standard tournaments at Pro Reis place. Several current aggro deck archetypes in the metagame excel at putting early pressure on opponents, highlighting fast games, and quickly putting their opponents’ life totals to zero.
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Magic: the Gathering Standard Domain Ramp with a Twist
The Magic: the Gathering Standard Domain Ramp deck archetype is continuously evolving on the adjustment to the current metagame. It is justifiable as new strategies arise to counter the deck build in resolving Atraxa. Given that it has already acquired a powerful card in Cavern of Souls, which makes the Phyrexian angel uncounterable, the deck would still be open to new components. It is maybe easy for them to do so as the Domain lands build makes it flexible to almost any color of the card in Standard.
Continue readingMTG Standard Deck Tech Goes Back in the Toxic Strategy in Bant Colors
The Magic: the Gathering Standard format continues to be interesting to play with the recent set Lost Caverns of Ixalan that had somewhat shaped some new archetypes and deck strategies to work with. Today’s blog post feature, however, goes back to the deck that utilizes the main card mechanic Toxic which was introduced in Phyrexia: All Will be One.
Continue readingMagic: the Gathering LCI Standard Jeskai Humans Deck Tech
With the reprint of the Caverns of Souls in the Magic: the Gathering Lost Caverns of Ixalan set, I am happy to see some new variance of the tribal decks in the Standard format and one in particular that I will feature in today’s blog post is the Jeskai Humans deck.
Continue readingStandard Five Color Domain Deck Shifts from Ramp to Control
A “Domain Control” deck is a type of Magic: The Gathering deck that focuses on utilizing the “domain” mechanic and control elements. The domain mechanic is based on cards that care about the number of basic land types you control. In Standard, this typically means the five basic land types: Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest.
Continue readingMagic: the Gathering Grixis Breach Deck as a Control Contender in Standard
In the current Magic: the Gathering Standard format, the variation of deck builds in colors is still observed while retaining the archetype core strategy. One of which I would feature in a Standard deck gameplay today in MTG Arena is the Grixis Breach the Multiverse deck.
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