Category: Standard League

Arena – U/G Merfolk

Casual, Magic the Gathering, MTGO, Standard, Standard League, Video

Hi friends! This week we will be playing around with one of my favorite tribes that splashed its way back into Standard! I am of course talking about Merfolk. Merfolk decks have been around for a long time and typically operate as tribal aggro decks with anthem lords like . The tribe is classically thought of as Mono-Blue but, along with Pirates and Dinosaurs, Ixalan brought us a fresh take by adding Green as a primary color for Merfolk. The deck’s featured “lords” are and . is a classic lord effect giving all other Merfolk +1 +1, however, offers some

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Edubious Standard Leagues Streaming Adventure, Volume 3

Magic the Gathering, MTGO, Standard, Standard League, Video

Week 3: Mono-Red Hazoret You can find my stream at twitch.tv/edubious and read all about the previous weeks’ leagues, along with a bunch of other great content over at StrictlyAverageMTG.com For this week’s trip in the Standard Competitive Leagues, I needed to get back to the roots of my aggro deck and rediscover its winning ways.  I stripped the black splash back out and restructured the mono-red main deck.  In a nod to the rise in copies of and , I added more main deck exile effects in the way of and .  I also decided to cut the ever-underwhelming

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Edubious Standard Leagues Streaming Adventure, Volume 2

Decknology, Magic the Gathering, MTGO, Standard, Standard League

This week and next we bring you Edubious’ Standard Streaming Adventures on Wednesday, instead of our regularly scheduled EDH IMHO articles – Editor Week 2: Black-Red Hazoret You can find my stream at twitch.tv/edubious and you can read all about the Week 1 League and a bunch of other great content over at StrictlyAverageMTG.com For my 2nd trip out in the Standard Competitive Leagues, I decided to take an iteration of my first deck.  I really like the position that Mono-Red Hazoret is in, but it feels like it could use juuust a little bit more oomph.  I added a

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Edubious Standard Leagues Streaming Adventure

Magic the Gathering, MTGO, Standard, Standard League

As I grow more hungry for competitive level Magic, my appetite for playing Magic the Gathering Online has grown with it.  Magic Online is a very convenient way to get in good, competitive level games of Magic without having to wait for a weekend tournament or travel half the town away.  In a town as big as Sacramento, you will always be able to find an LGS that is running a tournament on any given day of the week. I live on the far south end of the metro; all of the larger stores that run tournaments on Monday-Thursday are

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