Look out, Aristocrats fans! This card may show us some tricks we never thought we’d get to do in Standard! But is it good enough to hang around the top tier? Dylan Hand ventures into the dark side with these new lists!
This final installment includes the latest pricing updates on every card, Chas’s look at the final rare and mythic previews, as well as a study on free money when it comes to the promotions surrounding this block!
Is this the most important legend in Ravnica Allegiance in terms of Commander impact? Is it the most important card, period? Bennie Smith takes the already-popular Vannifar through his deckbuilding paces!
Part Gilded Lotus, part Sylvan Caryatid, part busted! Pro Tour Champion Ari Lax has a multitude of new Standard decks that use and abuse this innocuous mana creature to the fullest! Could this card be the real star of Ravnica Allegiance?
Todd Anderson and Ross Merriam are ready to see which guild truly reigns supreme, all while testing out new cards for Standard! Which guild do you think is poised to win it all in the coming months?
Gerry may have been out last week, but nothing was going to keep him from talking about all the Ravnica Allegiance previews we got over the last week! There’s no shortage of exciting cards to talk about, so let’s get going!
Shaheen has his four-mana wrath, but it comes with a cost. Is the card good enough? The Esper expert is happy to put together the reasons why you should be happy to play control in Ravnica Allegiance Standard!
Cards are becoming more and more flexible, which means they’re more difficult to analyze…and more fun to play! Sam Black looks at the deep roster of these spells and decides where and when to use which when it comes to Ravnica Allegiance!
Can Ravager Wurm really make it a format where Carnage Tyrant already runs the show? In a word, of course! Ravager Wurm has a lot of text and a lot of mass, and Owen thinks that’s a great combination to have in your corner this season!
Whether it’s Delver of Secrets, Shardless Agent, or Restoration Angel doing the damage, Gerry is the mind getting all those wins from strong positive tempo! Frilled Mystic might be the next in this lineage, and Gerry has the decklists to prove it!
Rakdos is as aggro as it gets most of the time, so it makes sense to ask one of the best aggro deckbuilders in the game’s history to evaluate this card from Ravnica Allegiance! Spoiler alert: Tom is a big fan! Here’s why!
Frankly, it looks like any other random green enchantment, but there’s a one-sided Heartbeat of Spring just below the surface! Todd Anderson takes you through some of the crazy ways this card could usher in a new combo era!
It’s not just tournament Magic that the new set is making all these waves in! Sheldon Menery picks up some of the early legends from preview season to explain the best and/or most fun directions you can take them! He even has some suggested synergies to boot!
Some types of cards frequently appear in Magic sets, and Ryan uses that to teach him about the format…before he ever sleeves up a single card! Learn from his excellent theory on Limited format prediction here!
Instant removal that lets you cast free spells? Yeah, that should do fine in Modern. Carmen shows off the many archetypes that may soon find themselves playing more unfair than ever! Imagine one of these decks winning SCG Worcester…and THEN getting this card!
