MTG Players Concerned Upcoming Sets May Ruin Premier Format
Once the go-to and most played format in MTG, throughout recent years, the popularity of Standard has declined dramatically. Due to rising costs, a stale metagame, and a pesky global pandemic, players have been flocking to formats like Commander instead. Thankfully, despite its fall from grace on paper, Standard is still a thriving format on […]
Breakout MTG Bulk Rare Creates Powerful New Archetype!
Before the Standard bannings, there was a lot of concern from the MTG community that there simply wasn’t enough room for innovation. Fable of the Mirror-Breaker decks were not only dominant, but they were repressing other viable strategies. By covering so much of the metagame, it seemed like if you weren’t playing Rakdos Midrange or […]
$50 MTG Budget Deck Makes Waves After Massive Banning!
Before the Standard ban announcement, Aggro decks were largely held in check by Rakdos Midrange. The plan of casting , and a bunch of removal was a lot for aggressive decks to overcome. With Fable gone from Standard, players were forced to look elsewhere in deckbuilding, opening up the door for Aggro decks to make […]
The Recent MTG Bans May Not Dig Deep Enough
For those unaware, there was a major MTG ban announcement affecting Standard today. , , and perhaps most surprisingly were all banned. It is quite clear Wizards of the Coast was trying to weaken the stranglehold that Rakdos Midrange had on the format. After Fable and Bankbuster represented over half the field of Pro Tour […]
5 Ways MTG Could Help Revive This Dying Format!
It’s no surprise that Standard is in a rough place right now. The gameplay is stale, and the format is relatively unpopular both in paper and online. Not to mention the barrier for entry to a rotating format is super high for the average player. Standard used to be a premier format of choice within […]
New MTG Archetype Creates Life in Dead Format
One of Magic’s premier high-stakes events, the Arena Championship, began today. 32 top-tier players from around the world would battle for the chance at pride, glory, and large sums of money. Unfortunately, with the format being Standard, there wasn’t much room left for a new MTG deck to emerge. After all, Rakdos Midrange had held […]
Old MTG Combo Resurfaces, Causing 350% Price Spike!
It looks like the most significant factors influencing financial changes in the MTG secondary market lately are finally starting to change! The flavor of all the new March of the Machine Commander things is started to cool off, replaced instead by breakout cards in various formats. This was evidently seen with a major spike that […]
This Omnipresent MTG Card May Finally Get Banned!
Wizards of the Coast recently announced a major change to the Standard format. Rather than sets lasting two years until rotation, sets would instead last a full three years! Unsurprisingly, this led to a large deal of concern within the Magic community. This is mainly based around the health of the format and having to […]
MTG Standard Changes Couldn’t Have Come at a Worse Time
In case you’ve somehow missed all the hubbub about it, recently, Wizards announced truly major changes to the Standard MTG format. Continuing the roughly two-year cycle of rotation changes, this time, Wizards is pivoting Standard to a three-year structure. Coming into effect with the launch of Wilds of Eldraine, this MTG set won’t trigger the […]
Top 12 Best MTG Aftermath Cards!
Even though MTG’s March of the Machine: The Aftermath is one of the most controversial sets released in quite some time, the cards being released in the set are good. Only a few days after the official release of this set, the contents of it are already topping big online tournaments. The cards have given […]