Comments on: Insider: Ixalan Standard Testing Notes

By: Peter Kowalczyk

Peter Kowalczyk — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 19:21:17 +0000

Hey Chaz,

Great write up. These playtesting things help quite a bit, you made a great call on Sylvan Advocate a while back. Anyways, few questions for you. Do you think Temur energy will also go in Tier 0? It looks like they werent losing anything either. Do the following cards look like they will be present in the new meta rhonas, Gideon, heart of kiran, Liliana Deaths Majesty, torrential gearhulk? I have large MTGO positions in these and want to make sure they are actually performing well. Let me know if any of them aren’t.

I did a bit of research recently, and found that 5 drops(creatures especially) really don’t show up that fall pro tour very much. In years past fall pro tour is the time to be aggressive, but something about this year looks different. There is great early removal, and a lot of really powerful 5 drops in this format, so I think will break the mold. But this would definitely be a deviation from the norm.

By: Chaz V

Chaz V — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:33:49 +0000

In reply to Biron Ecker. It appears I did, yeah. >.<

By: Chaz V

Chaz V — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:33:19 +0000

In reply to Justin Smith.

Keep in mind that Deathgorge Scavenger doesn’t receive any counters – but Until end of turn.

Yeah, plenty of answers for Ripjaw – but it still needs to be in a player’s gameplan for Ixalan Standard. I have not tried Rowdy Crew, nor really seen it yet.

By: Justin Smith

Justin Smith — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:03:36 +0000

Good call on Deathgorge Scavenger, I somehow missed the synergy with Winding Constrictor. Doomfall and Trial of Ambition along with discard are probably the most reliable answers to Carnage Tyrant, though inconsistent in their own right. There seem to be plenty of answers to Ripjaw Raptor: Unlicensed Disintegration, Walk the Plank, Skywhaler’s Shot, and Fatal Push if you can trigger revolt (which doesn’t seem all that hard if there’s a bunch of treasure tokens running around). Have you done any testing with Rowdy Crew? Seems like it could replace Insolent Neonate in the Jeskai GPG deck.

By: Biron Ecker

Biron Ecker — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 15:22:37 +0000

I feel as if you underestimated oeptec huntmaster. That card alongside any Dino is very dangerous. Casting huntmaster into ripjaw raptor or alpha on turn 3 will lead to quite a few blowouts.