Standard Deck Time: White Weenie (splashing Blue)

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Aki Vainio

As those who read my stuff regularly know, I like mono-colored decks. The thing is, you need large enough card pool to make those. Sure, you can try, but its hard. After the new block system and the faster rotation, the usual card pool will be smaller than it is now. For example, right now we have three large sets and three small sets. This is the maximal pool in the new system, but right now I have two more large sets to go before rotation. So, perhaps its time to broaden my horizons. Sort of.

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Fate Reforged Brews, pt. 10 – Selesnya

Posted on February 7, 2015 by Aki Vainio

Is [scryfall]Dromoka, the Eternal[/scryfall] constructed playable? Not sure. It seems like it was pushed to be, but there’s other cards competing for its spot ([scryfall]Wingmate Roc[/scryfall], [scryfall]Nissa Worldwaker[/scryfall] and [scryfall]Ajani, Mentor of Heroes[/scryfall] all come to mind).

However, the cycle of legendary dragons has clearly been pushed for constructed.

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Fate Reforged Brews, pt. 9 – Atarka

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Aki Vainio

Actually, this is more about [scryfall]Xenagos, God of Revels[/scryfall], but since that’s an old card, I’m not going to bring him up in the heading.

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Fate Reforged Brews, pt. 8 – Return of the Blue Devotion

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Aki Vainio

[scryfall]Cloudform[/scryfall] seems innocuous enough. A 2/2 protected flier for 3. Not really constructed playable, I guess. Unless, of course, you want the devotion. Maybe in some situations, it would be good to have a [scryfall]Master of Waves[/scryfall] with hexproof, although in that case you don’t get the tokens, of course, but if another Master brought in the tokens, this one could keep them alive.

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Fate Reforged Brews, pt. 7 – UBx Control with Crux of Fate

Posted on January 16, 2015 by Aki Vainio

If UB control is a thing, then why not Sultai or Grixis? UB is going to be strong anyhow, with the addition of [scryfall]Crux of Fate[/scryfall], and it can help here as well.

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Fate Reforged Brews, pt. 6 – Humble Defector

Posted on January 14, 2015 by Aki Vainio

[scryfall]Humble Defector[/scryfall] is a card you know can’t be that good, but you just wish you could find a way to use it profitably.

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… and maybe there is.

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Fate Reforged Brews, pt. 5 – Monored

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Aki Vainio

Admittedly, [scryfall]Temur Battle Rage[/scryfall] sort of speaks to me, but I don’t think its that good. Especially not for pushing damage through. For that, [scryfall]Titan’s Strength[/scryfall] is going to be better most of the time. Its cheaper and does three fairly reliably. It also works well with [scryfall]Prophetic Flamespeaker[/scryfall]. So, Battle Rage might work as some sort of poor fifth [scryfall]Titan’s Strength[/scryfall], but not much more than that.

I did, however, find some other cards I might be interested in using.

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