Category: Standard

Find everything you need to know about MTG Standard here. That means loads of guides, listicles, strategy pieces, the latest decks, and news.

New Spider Spawning Variant is an Elite Self-Mill Payoff

Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm

If you’ve ever had the opportunity to draft original Innistrad, you may have experienced how backbreaking it can be when an opponent resolves Spider Spawning. With enough effort, Spider Spawning can create a huge swarm of tokens that can easily end the game by themselves. On top of that, Spider Spawning conveniently has Flashback, so […]

MTG Foundations is a Typal Player’s Dream Set

Giada Font of Hope | Streets of New Capenna

MTG Foundations is bringing a lot of cool cards to the table that help a variety of different archetypes. Burn, for example, is getting a huge upgrade with Boltwave. Meanwhile, Elenda, Saint of Dusk may give life gain decks the necessary boost to make some noise in Standard. On top of this, one of the […]

Life Gain Decks Finally Get an Enormous Boost with MTG Foundations

Life gain is strategy that always seems to remain beloved within the MTG player base at large. No matter the Standard environment, there’s a decent chance you’ll play against life gain at least a few times while grinding the ladder on Arena. Unfortunately, more often than not, life gain strategies fall short of being in […]

MTG Foundations Land Permanently Becomes a Creature

Man lands, as they’re called, commonly see tons of play in competitive Magic. This refers to a land that can pay a cost to temporarily become a creature before returning to being just a land at the end of the turn. Not only does this grant your lands extra utility, aiding against flooding out, but […]

Standard Scaling MTG Menace Sees 391% Price Increase

Haughty Djinn has been a powerhouse in the Standard format for quite some time. Once the poster boy of the Mono Blue tempo decks, Haughty Djinn has remained fairly popular, even after that deck fell by the wayside. Right now, the card is a quintessential part of the Azorius Oculus strategies. Haughty Djinn not only […]

$20 Foil Reprint Sighted in MTG Foundations

Now that players are seeing the contents of MTG Foundations, the set feels as though it was overlooked for a long time. All kinds of incredible reprints, new cards, and interesting takes on classic effects are making their way to the Standard format. Authority of the Consuls is another in a massive line of powerful, […]

Unexpected Lava Spike Upgrade Solidifies Standard MTG Burn for Five Years

Red players are going to have a ball in the Standard format. Sure, Monastery Swiftspear will be rotating out of the format soon, but there are so many insane burn cards being printed in MTG Foundations that I don’t think Burn players will have time to complain. If someone had told me that Lava Spike […]