![]() ![]() Never dominant and never a bad choice, it’ll be missed-especially as it and Liliana never got the chance to coexist in Standard. ![]() It ran some notably underpowered cards, yet the engine they created together was a dependable and adaptable deck that squared up well against the pillars of Standard. Lolth and her minions: base-Black sacrifice decks have passed in and out of favor but the most recent iteration, with Shambling Ghast, Eyetwitch, and Lolth, Spider Queen, backed up by Blood on the Snow and Deadly Dispute, was a prime build. Eevery season is a time of change, but the tinge of melancholy, of darker days ahead, inherent to autumn makes me nostalgic. Goodbye To All Thatīefore we get sick of the Rakdos mirror match, I thought we should take some time to see the old Standard off and welcome in the new. With Ob Nixilis, the Adversary in the format, the three-drop discard Planeswalker spot is looking great, and Rakdos stands poised to dominate in Standard and Pioneer/Explorer. The most exciting cards in Dominaria United are reprints: Pioneer now has 60% of the painlands (with the rest projected to follow in a couple of months) and Liliana of the Veil returns to Standard for the first time in a decade and makes her debuts in Pioneer. #ROGUE FABLE III RANGER FULL#The new set is full of interesting cards-they’re just more suggestive of new archetypes than of objective power. I’ve been joyfully squeaking out games with Sultai Walls and testing out the surprisingly powerful Domain deck. That’s not quite a critique, as the set is a delight to draft. Into that breach comes Dominaria United, which is a bit lower on the power scale than some sets rotating out of Standard. Gone, too, are cards that enabled entire archetypes: Ruin Crab, Magda, Brazen Outlaw, Sedgemoor Witch, Righteous Valkyrie, Ranger Class, etc. And I will especially miss Binding the Old Gods, which was the glue for every base-Golgari decks I’ve played over the last eighteen months.Īlso gone are a whole host of cards that never quite got there, from Zendikar’s +1/+1 counters deck to Kaldheim’s Giants to 98% of Strixhaven cards. I’ll miss Snow-Covered lands, and the premier removal spell Blizzard Brawl that they enabled. This can lead to creativity, as in the loss of Goldspan Dragon, which was simply the best thing Red could do at five mana. We’re losing some powerful cards this rotation, without a lot to directly replace them. ![]() This is a particularly welcome revitalization, too-the time dilation of the pandemic era means that some of the sets that rotate out of Standard on Friday have gotten familiar enough to seem stale, especially when you used Arena as a pandemic distraction tool and ground an absurd number of Zendikar Rising drafts. ![]() It’s a refreshing time, particularly if you live somewhere where it’s been hovering around ninety degrees for two months or if you’ve been playing Cragcrown Pathway for two years. Autumn is my favorite season by far, as I’m constitutionally drawn to change, whether it’s the start of a new school year, the stultifying heat of summer breaking, or the rotation of a stale Magic format. ![]()
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