Amonkhet Brews, pt. 6 – Big Red

As one of my favorite archetypes, I do have a tendency to try to make Big Red work during each Standard. There’s a couple of good cards that might make it viable:

Well, there’s a chance the BG decks will rise again, which would mean that red would be pretty bad again, as it can’t handle most of the bigger creatures, and [scryfall]Goblin Dark-Dwellers[/scryfall] might just be better than [scryfall]Glorybringer[/scryfall] anyhow, but that depends on the meta.

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Amonkhet Brews, pt. 5 – Back to Monoblue Brain in a Jar, Without the Brain

So, looking at Saffron Olive’s original list, we’ve lost a few cards, but not that many. [scryfall]Disperse[/scryfall] can be easily replaced with cards that are strictly better, such as [scryfall]Compelling Deterrence[/scryfall], but [scryfall]Mage-Ring Network[/scryfall] is a bit more problematic. Having played the deck some, it feels like a big loss.

On the other hand, there’s a number of cards with cycling, which could potentially be very good. [scryfall]As Foretold[/scryfall] can replace the [scryfall]Brain in a Jar[/scryfall], especially in an environment with rampant artifact desctruction. Mix of both might also be a good idea.

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Amonkhet Brews, pt. 3 – UR Haven

Even if this one isn’t actually the bomb certain people want it to be, I don’t see why I couldn’t dream about using it. This could be Grixis as well, but the mana requirements might be a bit too much, although we could probably just use the cycle-duals to splash something. I’m not entirely sure what, though.

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Amonkhet Brews, pt. 1 – BR Madness

I’m back having completely missed Aether Revolt. Just couldn’t bring myself to brew than. However, now I do have some ideas. During Kaladesh I did less than usual. The whole block just didn’t feel fun for me. I guess I could sort of see where Standard was going or something.

Let’s start with two cards I’ve already found very interesting.

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