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.
Into the Roil
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.
Corbin Hosler has an exciting announcement for Insiders this week that will give them a huge advantage when trading! He also checks in on the Standard and Legacy metagames and has a few tips for the cards you should be selling now.
What makes Jay boil and fume? What else would you expect with this title?
