Our Journey from FNM to the Pro Tour
Since the beginning of the year, competitive Magic has been in an awkward place. From the removal of the PPTQ system and the Pro Players club, to the reintroduction of MCQs (previously known as PTQs) and the integration of Magic: Arena to the organized play, a lot has changed. Incentives for attending Grand Prixs at …
War of the Spark is a really difficult set to try to evaluate. Standard has been really fun to play, with the top decks rotating every couple of weeks, and I really don’t know how War of the Spark will shake things up. It seems like there are a lot of powerful cards, and introducing …
As I wrote about last time, I had been testing and liking Mono Blue Tempo. I was especially excited to see some great players like Reid Duke and the eventual Mythic Championship winner, Autumn Burchett, bring the deck to the first Mythic Championship. I wanted to try out their lists as I started working towards …
Standard has been in a great place since the release of Ravnica Allegiance. The new set added many fun cards and completed the cycle of Shocklands, breathing new life into Standard. Unfortunately, there haven’t been any competitive Standard events to prepare for, so I spent a good amount of time drafting and brewing, but not …
Last Friday, I was all ready to try out the Sultai Hadana’s Climb deck that I wrote about previously. I had a plan for the major decks, wrote out a sideboard guide, and thought that it was a good meta call if Izzet Drakes and Red or White Aggro decks were popular. But everything changed …
Leading up to this PT weekend, I spent my time brewing decks, discarding them, and going back to Boros Angels. In my opinion, Boros Angels is the strongest deck in the format when your draw lines up right. Adanto Vanguard into History of Benalia into Aurelia, Exemplar of Justice is an insane curve and I …
The first two weeks of Guilds of Ravnica Standard is in the books, and this is what the Standard metagame looked like after the first week! I grabbed the top decks from both SCG Standard events: the standard portion of the Team Open and the Standard Classic, along with the first MTGO PTQ. We see …
And I have no idea where to start brewing. The power level of Standard is changing, as all of the format defining powerhouses from the last year are rotating away next weekend. This means that we are basically brewing decks in a vacuum. It’s really impossible to tell which archetype will emerge as the week …