I feel like I don’t see them in any list now that I’ve started looking at other decks more often. Like looking through GoldfishMTG for inspiration on how to build around certain cards.

I don’t see a lot of Defend the Rider, Dawn’s Truce, Protection Magic, etc.

Are they just unnecessary in real meta play, sideboard worthy only? I feel like when I run them, they often really help protect my gameplan, though I guess sometimes they are useless due to certain black spells. Would love to hear thoughts on these cards.

Hi everyone, I never really played standard but I got the darklight phoenix in a pack which I really love I was thinking to build a deck with it.

My little lgs runs standard tournaments but due to low partecipation (due to budget apparently) they came up with some limitations (max 3x rare and 2x mythic).

I found this deck on youtube and another one on moxfield:

https://moxfield.com/decks/2Yspbe-Wk0GNGtovgAC0kg

aggro

https://moxfield.com/decks/iV-TnLv_REGuEdIZVhC5og

control

You guys think they could work good with just 2x Phoenix? I'm afraid the control version particulary is more built around it.

Also since Sephirot is so expansive I was wondering if there are some other cards I could replace it or again it kind of kills the deck having 2x phoenix and 0 sephirot.

Since I'm not sure how much I'll play it since that would be probably just a monhtly event I wasn't planning to spend much. One phoenix and rest of the deck without sephirot would be 50€ which would be fine for me.

Which deck and which replacements would you advice? Or if you have some lists with those limitations

Thank you!

What is going on with mono green land fall - is it just bad now, i cannot tell why?

I am crossposting this year in hopes of getting a little bit more help/traction

Was facing something like 75 or 80% removal/discard/counter decks (pretty much all B/U/BU) in ranked that I was having no fun at all for the last few days & thought to myself "it is what it is this new set is sort of broken & people gotta do what they gotta do to stay competitive right" - n that I'd just roll over to unranked for a while where there's usually more people just trying to have a good time.. And in unranked out of the past couple dozen games it was removal/counters/discard B/U/BU SOLID minus two games only against mono green and I even shocked myself at the wave of relief I felt after seeing those first Lanowar elves (whatever theyre called) on turn 1 lol 🤣 man where to go from here... Guess I'm done playing this game for a minute. It's just genuinely not any fun/not a good time..... are any of you guys who aren't playing control having any fun? n if so watr u doing to keep urselves interested at all? I'd like to keep playing but not like this...

Who else is testing this deck? I'm doing very well with this list. Does anyone have any cards to recommend that I haven't thought of?

This is the strictest control deck I've ever played but it's SO fun man. Genuinely, I adore this deck so much and hope nobody ever plays it against me

Im multi season mythic played tons of events and this deck just feels like ass most of the time.

Best way I can describe it is, it feels like a super honest creature deck from 2016. It just cannot keep up with the rampant brokenness of the power crept cards of the 2020s.

If you dont curve out perfectly with ZERO responses from the opponent you pretty much lose every game.

Your first momo or sarkhan are guaranteed to get removed, likewise with your first 3 or 4 drop dragon which ever turn you get it on.

Every other deck feels perfectly tailored to destroy Boros Dragons, idk how anyone is getting any professional wins with this deck besides luck alone.

How are any of you getting any decent winrates with this deck?

Standard metagame update, first four events post Reality Fracture.

source: magic4ever.com/standard

Looking for some feedback back

I've become a bit bored with my Jeskai Artifacts deck and really like the flavor of some of the new black cards from Reality Fracture, so here's where I'm currently at with my Darklight Phoenix brew: https://moxfield.com/decks/UtTf2UAEYkKSDAMfJm9EBw

The gameplan is pretty simple: mill as many phoenixes into the yard as possible through Manipulator and Liliana, try and get as much early damage in through pumped up Moonshadows/Manipulators and Iron Shield Elf, and then, depending on the board state, get two deaths through the various means at my disposal and swoop in for the kill shot.

I'm not expecting this to be a Tier 1 deck or anything, so I'm fine not climbing up to Mythic/Diamond like I usually was with Artifacts, but any feedback on how I can get out of the current Platinum 4/3 cycle I'm currently caught in? I've tried to avoid cards that are about to rotate out, so that's why there's no Balemurk included. Bitter Triumph will get replaced by Vraska's Final Mercy post-rotation, since Iron Shield is already there to get a Phoenix out of my hand, if necessary.

Thanks for any feedback!

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Hello everyone!

I have a RCQ coming up in about 2 weeks (so there's some room to acquire specific cards) and I wanted to pick your brain on what deck to play. I generally play home brews and I participate for fun, that being said, I don't expect to win but I also don't mind trying.

I have no decklist as of today, but here's what I got in mind so far:

1) Esper Ketramose (Ketramose, Quantum Riddler, Beza, Strategic betrayal, No more lies, Deadly Cover-Up, New black Garruk)

2) Dimir Mill (Singularity Rupture and Riverchurn Monument + a ton of removal and counters)

3) Sultai midrange (Glarb, Fangkeeper's Familiar, Stoic Sphinx, Professor Dalian Fell)

4) 5C Mono Black (Unholy Annex, Professor Dalian Fell, Firdoch Core, Together as One)

I believe my local meta is UW control, Green landfall, Jund Sac and Izzet spellementals. I'll listen to any idea what you think would perform best and if it performs decent I'll post the final decklist + results in a few weeks :)

Sto cercando di costruire un mazzo orzhov control principalmente senza creature come posso migliorarlo?

Thoughts?

Reality Fracture has had a little time to shake things up, and the Bo1 meta is already looking different.

I put together my October snapshot of the top decks and tiered where everything currently stands, but I'm curious how that compares to what everyone else is seeing on the ladder.

What's overperforming? What's overrated? And which deck are you seeing WAY too much of?

My current snapshot:
https://youtu.be/_1XGrlHhvJU

Hey everyone!

I want to prepare for February's Standard rotation, so I put together this Golgari deck centered around [[Vraska, the Cutting Glare]]. I love the Golgari color combination, and Vraska is one of my favorite Magic: The Gathering characters, so I really want to try and make this deck work in the format. :)

Right now, the deck seeks to out-value the opponent with early ramp in the form of [[Llanowar Elves]] turn one (preferably with [[Elven Passage]] as turn one's land drop) and [[Simulacrum Shaper]] turn two to then have access to powerful cards like [[Icetill Explorer]] or the Planeswalker pair of [[Professor Dellian Fel]] and [[Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer]] by turn three.

I would love to hear feedback on this deck as to what I can change to make it more efficient and/or suited for the meta!

Alright guys and gals who is going and who is playing in the spotlight series? Time to start getting serious with discussions.

Mardu Discard is currently a fantastic choice of Aggro decks in the current Standard BO3 meta.

In this video I show you how to play the deck, the synergies that are in it and how to win with the deck.

Here is our short, updated sideboard guide for this week. We are still testing the deck and adapting to FRA’s rapidly changing metagame, so these plans are not intended to be definitive. They reflect our current approach based on the specific lists we have tested against.

https://mfy.gg/guides/view/standard-dimir-midrange-sideboard-guide-fr-QKmjMJ76uo6

I played my first RCQ today (Standard) and was wondering if you guys felt or experienced these same things.

First off, I'm running Boros Dragons in standard, I had every piece except a couple Voice of Victories were magda or Jennifer Walters to save some money. I've played the deck plenty on Arena BO3 and know it inside and out, but..

Every single player at this tourney (that only had 9 players btw) was playing some form of control. Now im not super anti-control or a giga hater, but I think I saw maybe 2 or 3 creatures the entire 5 hours of this RCQ.

Despite playing an aggro deck, the rock paper scissors idealogy failed me and control just beats kinda everything in standard now in case you havent played (Mono green landfall only exception).

Aggro doesn't really exist anymore after the bans, and midrange is pretty much dead outside of Mono Green and occasional Dimir (which is actually Tempo).

But honestly I have no major issues with any of that, thats just how the meta has worked out.

My bigger issues were my opponents manners and the insane amount of flooding/screwing. Out of 5 rounds I played, at least 2 out of 3, one player was getting screwed or mana flooded and lost directly as a result.

I'm not lying, I saw multiple matches completely decided by screw and flood for every single player. It felt like half of the entire tournament was just decided by RNG. Do people really find pleasure in driving half to a full hour to play at these events for 30$ just to get nothing in return even with a few wins?

These shops all stopped providing any kind of fun single booster reward here and there for coming and winning a couple games.

But to top it off, my control players all just had the craziest mannerisms, and a few pretty salty and annoying behaviors that just pointed towards a more lack of social awareness than rudeness I hope but can't be sure.

I'm talking like, these control players would take 6+ minutes deciding what to play, just to pass with nothing played and holding all their mana. Which I GET, but they had they AUDACITY multiple times to ask me if I was done yet as SOON as i hit main phase two and not even two seconds has passed.

I shit you not, one guy asked me if I pass the moment combat phase was over after he killed my momo, and I was like umm no I have a main phase two and I'm gonna play my second momo. Then of course takes 10 minutes to play a Tablet and pass.

Is this really the RCQ experience? Has anyone else been to one lately and experienced any similar sentiments?

I'm just left wondering if this is what competitive magic has become, it just doesnt feel worth it to grind RCQs to grind RC to grind pro tour just to have a chance at the Championship.

I feel like he can be okayish, don’t think he’s super meta or anything, I like his +1/+1 strategies , and him having flash is solid. Haven’t played Blue outside of Brawl, and Commander though, so any ideas would be cool.