Mtg Deck Builder Guide3/30/2021
MTGGoldfish.com and MTGTop8.com are both great resources for identifying trends, so use them frequently.Here you will find content to help you from the kitchen table to your first GP, and everything in between.Courtesy of the infinite wisdom of Wizards of the Coast were in the middle of a break of more than two months between PPTQs and a staggering four months between European Grand Prix.For competitive Magic players, there have been few blanker gaming calendars in recent memory.
Ive been on a terrible run of results since the release of Battle for Zendikar, and Ill admit to being ready for a break from the grind. Ive come to dislike the current limited format quite intensely, and Ive struggled to find edges in Standard. At GP Brussels I gave up on breaking the format or even just coming up with a clever metagame choice and just slammed Siege Rhino s. I went 6-3, losing my day 2 win-and-in for the second consecutive Grand Prix, and thats likely the last competitive Standard Ill play until Oath of the Gatewatch comes out. Modern is a format Ive really grown to love over the last year or so, and I wish it got more time in the competitive spotlight than it currently does. A not insignificant number of games involve combo decks racing blindly towards their haymakers without any meaningful interaction, and plenty of potentially interesting matches end the instant one player lands one of the formats many ludicrously overpowered hate cards (hi, Blood Moon ). Frankly, Modern produces many of the most one-sided and least satisfying matches of Magic youll ever play. You can get some incredibly close games where the tiniest decisions have a huge impact on the result. ![]() Nourishing Shoal went from being a bargain bin rare to a money card overnight, because everybody had (quite reasonably) assumed that a lifegain card which 2-for-1d you and required that you play expensive green spells was a mile away from being constructed-playable. I dont imagine its the last diamond well find in the rough in this format. With no competitive events before the next set comes out, focusing on Standard offers minimal value, whilst work put into Modern is liable to continue being useful for some time to come due to the much slower pace of change in the format. Were also at the time of the year when prices of Modern staples start to bottom out, with the Christmas lull in competitive play coming in the run up to the Modern Pro Tour the one time of the year when Wizards are likely to make changes to the Banned List. That means that, so long as you successfully avoid buying into cards that are getting banned in a couple of months, you can pick up new decks to try out at a relatively low price. You can do some pretty wild things in the format, but if you want a serious shot at putting together a deck that will take down PPTQs next year, there are certain strictures you need to work within, so Im going to have a go at laying out the guidelines to help you hopefully take your deck from the kitchen table to the top level. Its a simple fact of the format that its essentially impossible to have a good plan against absolutely everything, and trying to do so is going to lead to a deck which is stretched too thin to have a cohesive and effective plan of its own. Even Jund, which is often described as being 55 against the field has a rough time against Bloom Titan and an even rougher ride against Tron. Tron players love being paired against Jund but can struggle with Blue-Red Twin, which is perhaps the most resilient deck in the field in terms of having relatively few negative match-ups, but itself will ultimately lose more often than not against Jund. The best way to go about building a deck is to identify the decks which are the flavour of the month and then find a deck which has game against each of them, and which ideally struggles against decks which are on the downswing.
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