

Only this time we aren’t as worried about playing pressure since we have the means to play the control role and not worry about dying to a sudden Bolas Citadel thanks to Dovin’s Veto and Wilt.įor Mono Green Aggro we of course board in some early answers and take away some of the slower more situational cards. Both these decks are essentially combo decks and Wilt comes in a lot against combo.

It’s important that we both apply early pressure and try to disrupt their card advantage chains.įor Food it’s not too dissimilar. Out- 1 Ooze, 1 ECD, 1 Ugin, 1 Tef4, 1 Uroįor Adventures we are moving away from some of the redundant copies that aren’t a part of the base of this deck, meanwhile bringing in some focused cheap answers to prevent them from doing their thing to us. Out- 2 Jorael, 2 Shark Typhoon, 1 Uro, 1 Tef4 Out- 1 Tef 4, 1 Shark Typhoon, 1 Ugin, 1 Ooze, 1 Jorael Out- 1 Tef 4, 1 Uro, 2 Ugin, 1 Shark Typhoon Out- 1 Tef 4, 1 Uro, 1 Ugin, 1 Ooze, 1 Jorael Out- 2 Gust, 2 Shatter, 1 Uro, 1 Tef4, 1 Temple of Plenty, 1 Ugin In- 2 Narset, 2 Typhoon, 2 Veto, 1 Ooze, 1 Casket Out- 2 Ugin, 3 ECD, 2 Shatter, 1 Uro, 2 Hydroid Krasis, 1 Tef4, 1 Nissa In- 2 Casket, 2 Narset, 1 Reversal, 2 Wilt, 2 Typhoon, 2 Veto, 1 Ooze Let me give you a sideboard breakdown of how I would approach a few matchups and then we can discuss the strategy a little further down below. They’ve fed our future Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath another card to cannibalize as well as given our Elspeth Conquer’s Death a target to return later. The best part is if they are answered early than our opponent hasn’t progressed. Now we get to add to the statistical significance of having an early powerful play by slamming one of these two drops down instead. Bant used to have an issue with a slow start for hands that did not include Growth Spiral. However, these two cards have made a dramatic difference. The rest is traditional Bant before the new set emerged. M21 has supplied us with Jolrael and Scavenging Ooze. Then I am going to post a couple other approaches to the format that I’ve been having some fun with. I’ve gone one step further and supplied a handy sideboard guide to go with it. Today I am going to focus on a build of Bant I have been working on. Ironically Explore didn’t have much of an impact on Standard, but things change vastly based upon the cards they have to interact with. Luckily for fans of not playing Red we have just the ticket.īant and Sultai are sadly the last two combinations that include the most important color combination in Standard… Simic! The data is showing Simic to be far and away the best combination and that might be due largely in part to the card Growth Spiral. Many decks have had to adapt their strategies or approaches in order to keep up with this titan of Standard. The Standard format has been dominated for quite some time by Temur Reclamation. Wizards of the Coast.Just in case the title didn’t say it all, let me be clear. " Playing Your Pet: Rough-Testing A Magic Deck". Occasionally, real players who are defeated without having had any real impact on the game are also derisively called "Goldfish". It can also be used to subjectively judge a mana base, as in how likely it is to have sufficient mana of all colors required to play certain spells.
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While this is usually useless for reactive decks, it can give some insight into the speed of aggro or combo decks as well as help players unfamiliar with the deck to understand the basic principles of how to play it. Goldfishing (or playing against a goldfish) is the practice of playing without an opponent by drawing a starting hand and proceeding to continue to play until an opponent who does nothing to stop you from accomplishing the gameplan is defeated.
