What are everyones thoughts on the meta once DKA is released? It seems BW tokens will rise to T1 with RW aggro and Jund. Jund has curse which gets even better, Blasphemous act and some great lategame. Plus it picks up Looting which should help alot G1 especially. Self mill gets some new tools but the Cage should probably be 2-4 in every sideboard, holding it+Burning Vengeance down pretty badly.
Will BUG see any play after? All it has vs tokens is Sever and Curse, but it has card draw on Jund. Besides that blue didn't get much that would help the deck, just two possibly useful counterspells that are unplayable in standard but not much else.
Still worth keeping G/W tokens as G/W or do you splash black for Sorin, Lingering Souls and Vault? That's kind of what I'm trying to decide right now by looking at things. Mana is already pretty rough with G/W so pulling anymore lands out for the Vault seems iffy. I could see swapping 4 plains for 4 Isolated Chapel's at the very least for Sorin and Souls.
a gwb mana base with evolving wilds is totally feasible now. between 4 chapel 2 grotto 4 wilds and pilgrims the mana base is actually pretty solid. green is really only a splash for garruk anyways as most of the power cards are white and mayor is likely weaker now.
I'm pretty excited about wilds actually. It has really good synergy with 3 color "wedge" decks. ex, if you play RUG the two enemy duals both require an island to ETB untapped. Before, this meant that it had to be a blue-based deck or risk getting off to too slow a start. Now the deck can be base red or green with evolving wilds to fetch that island. It also opens up Ally colored tribal decks like RG werewolves, GW humans, UW humans, and UB Zombies. AND it provides a shuffle for delver! Ridiculous!
Does anyone see a BWR control/reanimator deck popping up? Faithless looting + Unburial rites seems like a good start to such a deck. The only think keeping it down might be the lack of good creatures to reanimate.
We could also see a BWr tokens deck that splashes for Devil's play and brimstone volley. The reach devil's play provides is ridiculous.
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was there any play testing with those decks? they do seem a bit rough.
now im terrible with deck theory/building. is this end of 3+ color decks? or was the 3rd color just used for filler while the other 2 colors arent polished enough?
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For me it's going to be all about GWB Planeswalker Junk and possibly RUG. Huntmaster is just too good. I've also been doing a lot of testing with Mono Green Stompy thanks to Undying, Mono Black Zombies and of course Burning Vengeance. had the chance to do a good bit of testing on the MTGO Be.... .... ....Cockatrice
Stompy and Zombies sounds incredibly janky, but, you really can't argue with their mana bases!
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ISD Block UR - Burning Vengeance BG - The Rock RUG - RUG Control BBB - Zombies
They have the decent 2 drop with intimidate that hits for 2 as well. I think bloodgift Demon in zombie lists is reasonable as it draws you more zombies and is a huge flying beater. Its just too good to not play even if it isn't a zombie.
Will BUG see any play after? All it has vs tokens is Sever and Curse, but it has card draw on Jund. Besides that blue didn't get much that would help the deck, just two possibly useful counterspells that are unplayable in standard but not much else.
and with colors getting more cards to flesh them out, the need to play many colors to keep up individual power levels is lessened.
I think we will see less multi-color, not more.
Does anyone see a BWR control/reanimator deck popping up? Faithless looting + Unburial rites seems like a good start to such a deck. The only think keeping it down might be the lack of good creatures to reanimate.
We could also see a BWr tokens deck that splashes for Devil's play and brimstone volley. The reach devil's play provides is ridiculous.
-Terror is an emotion which, when experienced, results in death.
-The pox was a disease notorious for having killed one-third, rounded up, of Europe’s population. Smallpox, on the other hand, killed only a single person.
-A person riding a horse cannot be stopped by foot soldiers, large animals, walls, archers, or even catapults.
More facts of magic
now im terrible with deck theory/building. is this end of 3+ color decks? or was the 3rd color just used for filler while the other 2 colors arent polished enough?
Stompy and Zombies sounds incredibly janky, but, you really can't argue with their mana bases!
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UR - Burning Vengeance
BG - The Rock
RUG - RUG Control
BBB - Zombies