The Legacy metagame continues to turn in on itself and Ryan’s had enough of it. Just get ’em dead!
Jace
From Door to Nothingness to the return of a familiar UW strategy, Standard is full of innovation right now. Mike Lanigan surveys the new decks that have surfaced recently.
Standard is a wide open format right now, which means lots of people are inventing sweet brews. Mike surveys the field for some strategies you may have overlooked.
The decks in Standard tend to break down into Thragtusk and anti-Thragtusk. Mike examines both sides to find out which is preferable.
Mike discusses some recent versions of UWr Delver that have finished well at tournaments and offers his thoughts on the deck.
What are the staples from RtR we’ll be jamming in Standard decks for the next two years? Mike ranks the top ten cards from Return to Ravnica.
This week Jason Alt muses on finance and retrospect alike, shows off some killer alters and dissects the SCG Invitational results.
Andy walks us through one of his more powerful Commander decks, based on library manipulation and headed by Maelstrom Wanderer. If you’ve ever longed to go nuts with Call of the Wild or Proteus Staff, read on.
Tyler unveils his pet Food Chain/Misthollow Griffin deck and runs through all the neat interactions, including why it isn’t actually terrible.
Mike discusses his preparations for (and distractions from) the World Magic Cup Qualifier in Maryland this weekend.
Worldwake is most iconic for Jace, The Mindsculptor, so let’s get that out of the way at the beginning. WWK has so much more going for it (okay, beyond just Stoneforge Mystic). Worldwake has several good-value rares and mythic rares, and thanks to how it was drafted, those cards will be worth more because so few were opened. Here’s what happened…
A new card out of Dark Ascension called “Faithless Looting” confirms some of our earlier assumption about the set, so let dig into speculator land and look at the Standard cards showing potential!
