As a veteran Merfolk player, Scott Muir brings us guidance, strategy, and reasoning to effective sideboarding with the popular tribal Legacy deck.
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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!
This week Stephen examines the block constructed format to find what can still hold value after this falls standard rotation.
Sol’Kanar is firmly three colors, right? Robert takes us on a brief journey through the world of a monocolored deck for a multicolored Commander! Swamps lie ahead!
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.
Getting your feet wet building a play group in a new town can be awkward. Anthony shares his experiences from doing this repeatedly. Don’t let potential good times go to waste!
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.
