Deck Price Tag: Vengevine Naya (Standard)
May 18, 2010
Vengevine Naya is my favorite new deck because it’s still under the radar and not as expensive as popular top decks like UW Control, Super Friends (UWR Planeswalkers), and Mythic Conscription.
Also, it did well last weekend at Nationals Qualifiers. Over 10 players qualified with it. One player who has been winning a lot with the deck on Magic Online says it doesn’t have any bad matchups expect Time Sieve.
Vengevine is great against Jund because you can discard it to Blightning. Before Rise of the Eldrazi, Jund had a good matchup against Naya but Vengevine makes the matchup closer. Also, Vengevine is good against Wall of Omens, planeswalkers, and mass removal like Day of Judgment. These cards have become popular.
I’ve chose the deck Gavin Verhey played, which was built by GerryT. I like his version because it only plays two non creature spells main deck to maximize Vengevine. Most of the time Bloodbraid Elf will trigger the green mythic rare.
Deck Price Tag: Grixis Control (Standard)
May 16, 2010
As a new feature, I’ll be figuring out the price tags of winning decks. I’m curious to see which decks are good bargains and which ones are super expensive. Hopefully, this feature will help you as you choose a deck to play and buy and trade MTG cards.
The first deck is Grixis Control. I used today’s eBay prices from Black Lotus Project. Updated on 6/9/10: We have a new program that calculates the deck price tags using the latest eBay price guides from MagicTraders.com. This means the deck price tags change everyday to reflect the latest card prices. Learn more about our program.
Grixis Control Deck (1st Place and 7th Place Finish)
May 16, 2010
If you’re looking for a strong Standard deck that’s under the radar, you might want to consider Grixis Control. This deck has a 1st place PTQ finish.
The decklist I’ll be examining has done well in two premier tournaments on MTGO (Magic Online). The player with the user name Money got 1st place on May 11 and 7th place on May 13. He used the same deck in each tournament.
Here is his list.
Mythic Conscription With 4 Dauntless Escort
May 13, 2010
I think one of the best decks in Standard is Mythic Bant with Sovereigns of Lost Alara, Eldrazi Conscription, and Dauntless Escort. Sovereigns and Conscription gives you a game winning combo at six mana that can’t be chump blocked like Finest Hour and Rafiq of the Many. For six mana, you get a 4/5 creature and give another creature +10/+10 and trample. That’s a really good deal. Plus, Sovereigns can’t be killed by Lightning Bolt like Rafiq.
Some people are still playing Rhox War Monk but Dauntless Escort is much better unless you have a lot of Red aggro decks in your metagame. Dauntless Escort stops Day of Judgment, which is good against the deck and is widely played in the white control decks like UW and UWR. Plus, Escort protects the most important creature on the battlefield. This creature could be the one enchanted with Conscription, Sovereigns, Baneslayer Angel, or Knight Of The Reliquary. Oftentimes protecting a key creature is enough to win the game. For example, it’s hard to lose versus Jund if you keep Baneslayer alive. If you haven’t tried out Escort in the main deck, you should. He single-handedly makes Mythic Bant much better.
This deck is doing well with two PTQ wins already. Here is a list that got 1st place last weekend. That deck is very similar to Matt Sperling’s 1st place deck from two weekends ago. Matt saw a successful list from German Regionals with the Sovereigns + Conscription combo. He added the Escort tech.
Below is Matt’s winning deck.
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