SCG Open Dallas is Standard. It will take place 9/30-10/1. Dinos, Pirates, Ramunap Red and Wrath to Exile! Check out the first major tournament of the new format!!!
Day 1 gone, a quick breakdown: The three "safe" decks have all emerged on top, but maybe not the exact builds people were expecting. Sultai Energy (closely followed by Temur and 4 color Energy), UW Approach, and Red Deck Wins. A lot of people in the Twitch chat were crying about the lack of dinosaur presence and some were hoping for a Pirate deck to show up. Most played/impressive cards out of Ixalan: Hostage Taker and Search for Azcanta, only dino to show up on camera: Deathgorge Scavenger. Most on camera deck was the several variants of Energy. Best Tier 1.5 decks that were shown (closest to breaking into the meta, IMO) Esper God's Gift and Grixis Improvise. Most unique deck that could break into the meta (probably a Tier 2 deck, maybe 1.5) Esper Tokens (with Marionette Master). Only Ixalan Tribe deck to show up on camera (you will never guess it)..... GW Vampires! Mono White Vampires with green splash for Rishkar and Blooming Defense doing some work.
The wierd thing about GW vampires is that it sounds absolutely insane, but it actually kind of makes sense when you start to actually think about it. That's a lot of life link in those hills and Rikshar can do a lot of work. Approach is reminding me of Guild Gates all over again.
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1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
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RNA Standard: Grixis Midrange, Jund Deathwhirler, Sultai Vannifar
GRN Standard: Red Midrange, Mono-Blue Tempo, Wr Aggro, Gruul Experimental Dinosaurs, Sultai Midrange, Jeskai Midrange
Modern: Bant Spirits
Forcing a single archetype in all formats: too many colors, bad mana.
Does anybody know about other members and what they might be running?
RNA Standard: Grixis Midrange, Jund Deathwhirler, Sultai Vannifar
GRN Standard: Red Midrange, Mono-Blue Tempo, Wr Aggro, Gruul Experimental Dinosaurs, Sultai Midrange, Jeskai Midrange
Modern: Bant Spirits
Forcing a single archetype in all formats: too many colors, bad mana.
I Stream MTGO on Twitch: broodwarjc
I also post recordings of those streams on Youtube: broodwarjcavidgamer
Standard Deck:
BUPirates
Modern Deck:
B8-Rack
Top 8: 2 4-color Energy, 2 Sultai Energy (both Jessup brothers), 2 UW Approach, 1 Esper Gifts, 1 RDW
Sultai Energy takes first against RDW.
I Stream MTGO on Twitch: broodwarjc
I also post recordings of those streams on Youtube: broodwarjcavidgamer
Standard Deck:
BUPirates
Modern Deck:
B8-Rack
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!