Well the rumors were true. Monday Wizards officially announced the new Banned and Restricted announcements for the upcoming Rivals of Ixalan season and four cards were hit with the hammer. Two expected and two unexpected but both are powerful shake ups to the format. We’re starting with the two elephants in the room. Energy took…
The follow up to Ixalan is finally upon us. Rivals will make its way to standard very soon and with the entire list spoiled there might be some shake ups in the top decks. Ixalan was a very tribal focused set but most of the tribes struggled to make their debut outside of casual or…
This has been a long year for Standard. We’ve seen many sets enter the format with some new spicy cards shaking things up, looking at you Hostage Taker. But the monarch of Standard has failed to be dethroned. There’s been a lot of spin offs of it but the original still remains the best. That’s…
Control has taken a lot of forms in Standard recently. From Blue Black control and it’s off shoot Grixis control, winning through value removal and the Scarab God, to Blue White Approach which wins by keeping the battlefield clear and casting Approach of the Second Sun twice. But a new type of control deck has…
Almost a year ago there was one deck that not only did everyone know about but it was one of the top decks in standard. No, it wasn’t Aetherworks Marvel, it was Mardu Vehicles. Piloting some of the strongest cards in Magic at the time, it was an agro deck that just ran away with…
With the release of Ixalan some things became very apparent in the standard format. Pirates and Dinosaurs are the coolest thing ever and Energy as a mechanic was going to continue to dominant. The classic Temur energy had morphed into Sultai energy adopting the Winding Constrictor or going so far as to be 4-Color energy…
