The first of two articles today in anticipation of Monday’s Banning announcement. Will Jace, the Mind Sculptor stay legal? What about Stoneforge Mystic? Brook Gardner-Durbin explores what options will be available to you if either or both of the above get the axe!
Strategy
The fairest deck of them all has Geoff serving up the quick beats. Tapping mountains from molehills is the plan of the day, and Geoff breaks down some flavors of burn you might want to avoid, or even try!
Scott Muir gives us an event report on how he earned 3rd place at this past weekend’s StarCityGames Legacy open event, including how he sideboarded for each matchup and what he would consider for future changes in the deck.
Last week I played in a standard tournament for four [card]Jace, the Mind Sculptor[/card]s. I played SparkBlade, a list very similar to the one in my last article.
Continuing our exploration of Legacy and the Color Wheel, we’ll move onto the series’ second installment. You’ll find all the White cards you can comfortably prepare to see in Legacy alongside the most prominent decklists harnessing the color.
Mike Lanigan discusses the impact of the cards of New Phyrexia on Standard’s Vampire archetype.
Wanting to give the newest and mono-Blackiest cards a chance to shine, Gregory Marques walks us through his current project.
Since I last wrote of Pauper, much has changed on MTGO! Included here are a full MTGO field archetype breakdown, multiple new decklists, and reader questions from Twitter.
Today we look into the Mono-Blue strategy from its enemy’s perspective. We’ll figure out how to fight, what actually matters as the enemy of the strategy, and take back what was stolen. Welcome to The Way of the Warrior where we Don’t MUC Around.
With the exception of Splinter-Twin, however, the new metagame is very similar to the metagame before rotation. Edgar Flores won the first SCG Open with NPH legal with a UW CawBlade list that looked very similar to the pre-rotation lists. In this metagame there are a number of cards that are being underplayed, in my opinion, and here are the top 5.
New Phyrexia just hit Magic Online! If you’re gearing up for a Pauper Daily take-down, Geoff Matteson has the scoop on the 10 best Pauper commons in the set!
It was not until the entire top eight had four copies of Jace the Mind Sculptor in their main deck that the talks became serious. We all knew nothing would happen then because New Phyrexia was yet to be released, in printed form at least. But now, the release has come and gone, players have adopted some new cards into their decks, and a new deck or two have made tournament appearances. So, what’s changed since then?
