The Pathways’ importance in Historic, Explorer, and Pioneer – or really any larger format that isn’t defined by fetchlands – highlights their unique strength. Your Orzhov Midrange deck might have some interest in Raffine’s Tower already – at that point, why not add the eight on-colour blue Pathways and explore that splash properly? The autumn set will have its own form of fixing that prompts its own debates, but the cost to playing another colour will almost surely be higher then compared to now. This is true in part because the Pathways are as close to ‘free’ enablers for splashing a colour as you’ll ever find. More broadly, building a manabase is a more complicated task than ever. Right now the most crucial DFCs aren’t the mythic rare cycle or the mighty Kazandu Mammoth but the seemingly innocuous Jwari Disruption and Spikefield Hazard – cheap, conditional interaction that has a useful buyout clause or alternate mode to justify loading up on those effects. The DFCs’ popularity in Standard has ebbed and flowed over these two years, but they have been a constant throughout. This was Magic’s biggest and boldest gesture in that direction, even though the mana system is (thankfully!) not going anywhere. Other games have resource systems that let you play cards as ‘spells’ or as the resource that lets you cast other spells. The modal DFCs were the flagship cards of Zendikar Rising and the perfect illustration of the trend in recent design towards bigger games that ask for more mana and more mana sinks. The rotation that promises to refresh the format is a long way off, but it’s a good opportunity to reflect on the hits and misses of the sets rotating out – and sticking around.
This is bad news if you focus on Limited – where the consensus seems to be that this set is a blemish on a great run of Limited formats over the past few years – but also if you enjoy playing and keeping up with Standard.
As the first Regional Championship Qualifier season gets into full swing, the vast majority of events will be Modern or Pioneer why would a store take a risk on Standard when there’s no interest in it offline?Īdditionally, the release schedule means we are stuck with Streets of New Capenna as the most recent mainstream set for some time. This in turn means no circuit of third-party Arena qualifiers, typically Standard or Historic, for the Set Championships. There is no Standard at the highest levels of play, and no high-level competitive play for it to feature in for now. never played a tournament quite like this one ahaha
Played standard chally for first time in while after napping.
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