Hello folks it's been 5 months since I last wrote something for this page. A new set is coming out this weekend and It is our return to the planes of Eldraine. If you were not around yet to play MTG when we first went there, It is a plane inspired by Arthurian legends and fairy tales.
Fresh new cards are here again for us to brew new decks or improve the existing ones. Personally, I think Standard really needed this set to shake the metagame, Who knows a card might break the format.
Here are some of the decks I came up with :
Mono- White Midrange:
Deck
4 Wedding Announcement
4 Lay Down Arms
4 Virtue of Loyalty
4 Ossification
3 Ambitious Farmhand
3 The Wandering Emperor
3 Serra Paragon
2 The Restoration of Eiganjo
2 Spirited Companion
1 The Eternal Wanderer
2 Mirrex
3 Roadside Reliquary
18 Plains
2 Sunfall
1 Sanctuary Warden
2 Loran of the Third Path
2 Collector's Vault
Sideboard
2 Anointed Peacekeeper
1 Loran of the Third Path
2 White Sun's Twilight
1 Farewell
2 Glass Casket
4 Invasion of Gobakhan
1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
2 Unlicensed Hearse
The notable additions to this list from Wilds of Eldraine are
Virtue of Loyalty
Collectors Vault
These cards just fit well with the game plan of mono-white midrange. Also, it makes Roadside Reliquary viable again. Taking advantage of the synergy of looting and the power of Serra Paragon to cast them from the graveyard. In theory, it's sweet but there is no better test than playing the cards physically.
Rakdos Midrange
Deck
4 Bloodtithe Harvester
2 Collector's Vault
4 Back for Seconds
4 Decadent Dragon
4 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
4 Graveyard Trespasser
3 Go for the Throat
3 Sheoldred's Edict
2 Cut Down
4 Bloodthirsty Adversary
4 Blackcleave Cliffs
4 Haunted Ridge
4 Sulfurous Springs
1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
4 Swamp
2 Mountain
1 Shattered Sanctum
1 Sundown Pass
1 Battlefield Forge
1 Caves of Koilos
2 Duress
Sideboard
2 Duress
2 Lithomantic Barrage
2 Pilfer
2 Path of Peril
2 Ob Nixilis, the Adversary
1 The End
2 Abrade
2 Cut Down
I never gave up on Rakdos Midrange even though staples from it were sidelined by bans. So this is me trying to come up with a list that utilizes Collectors Vault, which is trying to make its greatest Reckoner Bankbuster impression. Looting Cards not only allow us to filter our hand but also fill our graveyard. Hence I am looking into Bloodthirsty Adversary to flashback those spells and the sweet part is one of those spells is BACK FOR SECONDS which we can play using its BARGAIN clause which will allow us to get 2 creature cards from our graveyard and place 1 creature with 4cmc or below directly into the battlefield.
Most definitely I will try to play these decks in our LGS and with good luck hope to win some games with them. Will also try to brew some more using the new cards but for now it is prerelease weekend so it is time for those sealed tourneys.
On to the NEXT........
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