Mike Lanigan takes a look at some decks post rotation with a particular close look at Voltron and its new pal Mentor of the Meek.
Despise
Chad talks about the PTQ season changing, and how your plan has to change to survive the change-over.
Chad Havas digs into how the core set will affect the price of New Phyrexia cards, and what to look out for in standard and potentially over-extended.
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!
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.
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.
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.
We’ve had 2 weeks of Opens to see the impact New Phyrexia has had on the Standard and Legacy tournament scenes. I’m going to focus on Standard, since the Grand Prix this weekend is Legacy, and will almost certainly have more players than the SCG Open series gets. Waiting on that will give us a bit of a better view on the format. However, for Standard, there’s no reason to wait, especially since the format hasn’t really undergone much of a change.
