Magic: The Gathering,GO TEAM MS!

[InflatablePie]

just play Karn it turns off Marvel

while you're playing artifacts though, how about some copies of Marvel. and t3feri to help and bounce Rogue Refiners. and while we're casting spells for free, let's talk about our friend Golos...

or splash blue in monored for Treasure Cruise

[Inferno390]

Here’s a funny thought
Why the heck is no one playing Lavinia in Standard right now?

[InflatablePie]

delays t2 Oko on the play and counters Fires if you have protection for it... with God's Willing in the format, I'd keep an eye on it if Theros brings back any sort of Heroic deck by chance


here's my Omnath Brawl deck I threw together, suggestions welcome (especially commons/uncommons cuz I got a pile of those wildcards sitting around right now)

[Micc]

The linked deck is set to private viewing only

[InflatablePie]

whoops fixed

with 6 Elementals, Omnath usually grows itself. could make some cuts for more. ten targets for Guildmage Forum - maybe cut the Merfolk Skydiver and/or Stonecoil Serpent? also could throw in a Neoform potentially. may make room for Biogenic Ooze cuz that seems like it could get out of control.

had a bunch of stuff for a wishboard for Vivien til I realized it's not explicitly allowed in Commander formats. she's still solid with the counters and fight abilities given the theme.

[Micc]

Bloom Hulk comes to mind as a great inclusion for both elemental and +1/+1 counter synergies.

[Inferno390]

So here's something I've been shitting around with for the last few minutes:
Pioneer.

Sultai Elementals.
This is what I've thrown together so far:

4 Breeding Pool
2 Cavalier of Gales
2 Clash of Wills
3 Cloudkin Seer
3 Disappearing Act
1 Drowned Catacomb
2 Essence Scatter
4 Field of the Dead
2 Forest
3 Healer of the Glade
3 Hinterland Harbor
2 Island
2 Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar
2 Nissa, Vastwood Seer // Nissa, Sage Animist
3 Oko, Thief of Crowns
4 Once Upon a Time
2 Overgrown Tomb
4 Risen Reef
3 Temple of Mystery
3 Undergrowth Champion
2 Watery Grave
1 Woodland Cemetery
3 Yarok, the Desecrated

Think think this really has some potential. Especially since my first playtest involved me slapping slapping down vastwood seer followed by a Risen reef with Yarok in play, finding two green lands, then trigger off of Risen found field of the dead, then Sage Animist trigger for another land. The amount of value possible is absurd. It could probably just use some fine tuning.

[popsofctown]

I scrubbed out.
Leafkin druid and Llanowar elves seem really desirable for that deck. Essence scatter and healer of the glad don't

[InflatablePie]

Theros: Beyond Death (major) spoilers

I actually gasped when I saw the basics for this set. if there's any of this set that I buy in paper it's these beauties:

Spoiler:

also WotC announced 5 new Commander precons with the new set Ikoria (tied to the plane a la Eldraine/Brawl precons), two more in Zendikar Rising, and a draftable Commander set called "Commander Legends"


tangentially related because I mentioned Brawl, BW Sorin is really fun. Charming Prince drives the lifegain bus to valuetown (Angel of Vitality, Twinblade Paladin, Ajani's Pridemate/Bloodthirsty Aerialist), with minor stops throughout Spiritville (Afterlife triggers, Teysa, Ethereal Absolution) and Angelburg (Bishop of Wings, Seraph of the Scales, Divine Visitation). then just add all the good removal and sweepers and go from there.

[Inferno390]

Oh my god Auras and “Formidable” AND “Heroic” AND this new ability called Escape?

What is this set?

[InflatablePie]

artisan event on Arena is pretty fun, was brewing around with a few different things until I settled on this

Spoiler:

this deck is dumb enjoy your free wins

[popsofctown]

I scraped through with a terrible red deck.
I'm a little mad you didn't show me this before I got my silly 5 wins.
I don't see myself playing the event just for fun.

[InflatablePie]

it'd be more fun in Bo3 with sideboarding imo

fiddling with that list, thinking you can also run -1 Spectral Sailor, -1 God's Willing // +1 Unsummon, +1 Elite Guardmage; Sailor only really gives you game against control whereas another Guardmage is more flexible (Cloudkin's really great on 3 in lieu of Eagles or else I'd run 2 Seer/4 Guardmage) and a single Unsummon is close enough to God's Willing with upside of bouncing random tokens/your own Seers/Guardmages(/Miscreants??). Healer's Hawk is also fine, could run some amount in the main by going to 2-3 Loyal Pegasus, but the deck overall just wants to race to a big Rally the Wings swing as the main game plan so I'd rather run other 1-drops. seeing Dovin pop up too which I'm not sure is worth it but could be interesting

[DeathNote]

Made rank 625 in standard for Arena last month.

Played Esper Dance which arguably might be even worse now with so many people main decking veil of summer and noxious grasp. I'll probably be able switch my deck up tho before the qualifier.

[popsofctown]

They banned copycat, leyline of abundance, and

green ponder

oath of Nissa.
Copycat was inevitable. The game is probably more fun without oath of Nissa than with. But I feel like I'd rather see Llanowar elves banned instead of leyline.

[InflatablePie]

speaking of Pioneer bans, also Veil of Summer

Made rank 625 in standard for Arena last month.

Played Esper Dance which arguably might be even worse now with so many people main decking veil of summer and noxious grasp. I'll probably be able switch my deck up tho before the qualifier.

next level them and mainboard Duress

[InflatablePie]

Temur Reclamation wasn't quite ticking the right boxes for me (fun though! Escape From the Wilds is actually a decent one/two-of after all btw) and DN mentioning Dance was getting me in a combo deck mood

then I found this:

Spoiler: GB Clover Knights

Deck guide here on reddit, I've made some changes to this person's current list here and they seem to be going well in mid-Diamond:

-1 Find // Finality || +1 Assassin's Trophy [MB]

F/F seemed pretty win-more aside from it being an out for GW Adventures etc. ATrophy is just a catch-all answer, never been unhappy to draw it

-2 Duress, -2 Reave Soul || +1 Assassin's Trophy, +2 Questing Beast, +1 Harvest Fear/Reaper of Night [SB]

with one ATrophy mainboard, the second comes in against aggro with Massacre Girls and the Reave Souls just aren't necessary. so I'm shoring up the Fires/Reclamation matchup. Duress is great at plucking one combo piece but Harvest Fear off a Clover or two is amazing if you can pull it off so that's how I'm spending the 5 discard slots. could maybe run 3/2 Duress though. Questing Beast comes in against Fires or if I need a big dude/threat to quickly turn the corner with. maybe once Oko's banned I'll trim one Noxious Grasp for a Legion's End or something.

it took a solid number of matches to figure out how to play this deck but once it clicks it's a blast

[popsofctown]

Incubation.
The tried and true formula of, "there's a great buildaround card in the format, but not enough playables with the related mechanic, so the empty slots are card selection to draw into the 4-ofs that wish they could be 7-ofs."
Glint Nest crane is special to my heart.

[InflatablePie]

given that Incubation isn't only Innkeepers/Adventures/etc numbers 5&6, it's also effectively OuaT 5&6, you're not wrong

[popsofctown]

Once Upon a Time is itself an example of the dynamic, I just preferred to call out Incubation because it's not an impressively powerful card in a vacuum but it's very useful in this context. Whereas Once Upon A Time is a pushed rare.

[InflatablePie]

it does have a second card attached too, but don't think it's worth splashing blue for because the card gets sided out pretty often

Spoiler: 18W-5L over 4 Bo3 Standard Events later

MTGGoldfish

+1 Temple over Forest hasn't been tested yet, it should be fine (don't always need Innkeeper t1). same with the 3rd Paragon.

went with -1 Midnight Reaper / +1 Assassin's Trophy main to free up another sideboard slot. it's great against control but you have so many other card draw options, midrange it can block things like Bonecrusher Giant (or chump Questing Beast), but overall it's not an Adventure and I couldn't justify any other cut. did consider cutting an Order of Midnight, but I'm not opting for Find/Finality so decided not to cut my recursion engine. and Incubation can actually be useful in some matchups, but especially game 1s where you need to Storm off quickly with Curry Favors or I'd trim one, though it's usually sided out.

back to only 2 Reaper of Knight side even though I love the 4-6 for ones with Clovers (went back up to 3 Duress, although I think 2 could be acceptable depending on meta/sideboard slots post-Oko ban**), and a single Legion's End - mostly for another slot against red and black aggro since you can't use Noxious Grasps, but it's relevant against Innkeeper decks too. Questing Beast has been fine in testing but since cuts are really tight when sideboarding I don't always want two; unless they Lava Coil it (Fires, monoRed - it should get at least one hit in against UW control), you can get it back with Orders/Alter Fate.

think post-Oko ban** I'm cutting a Noxious Grasp for either a 4th Paragon (most useful in R and/or B Aggro, Flash, Gruul Aggro, Control), 2nd Legion's End (against other Innkeeper decks, decent against R/B aggro decks), 2nd Questing Beast (Grixis/Jeskai PW Fires, UR Draw-2), or back to 3 Reaper of Night (Jeskai Fires with Cavaliers, Temur Reclamation).

**it's gonna happen.

[InflatablePie]

arena event giving everything Cascade coming up soon

so I'm just running Temur Elementals

seems appropriate and also decent?

[popsofctown]

MAELSTROM WANDERER

[Micc]

Played Temur Rec in what turned out to be a really small PTQ yesterday. got the hot 3-0 start and dropped three straight win and ins to finish 3-3. But I don't have to play standard again for the foreseeable future so thats a win.

I think elementals is probably a good starting point for cascade event.

[hasdgfas]

I played Gruul Aggro in the Cascade event. Pelt Collector with Once Upon A Time is really dumb, and then if all your 2-drops get another Pelt Collector and grow those Pelt Collectors you just snowball.