This archetype comes in many varieties: with or without Druid of the Cowl, with or without main deck Wildgrowth Walker, with or without Vraska, Relic Seeker, and so on. One way or another, you can only include one Boros deck in your Team Unified Standard lineup. The most important ones are Tocatli Honor Guard, Deafening Clarion, Seal Away, and Lyra Dawnbringer. Sacred Foundry Decksīesides Sacred Foundry and Clifftop Retreat, there are several other spells that are used by at least two of these Boros-based decks.
For representative deck lists, check out MTGGoldfish or the text coverage of Grand Prix Milwaukee. Let’s break down the most competitive options for each of the five guilds from Guilds of Ravnica. In any case, any competitive deck requires a consistent mana base, so each guild should be used by no more than one player on each team. We have both checklands and shocklands, but the shocklands are more unique because we currently only have five of them. In my view, the dual lands are the most important cards in Team Unified Standard. For those players, cards that see play in multiple competitive decks are exactly the ones you should prioritize for your Standard collection and that you should consider spending your MTG Arena wildcards on. This overview of overlap cards is useful not only for WMC teams but also for individual players who want to have the ability to switch between multiple decks. In the process, I’ll highlight essential Standard cards that see play in multiple competitive decks. Today, I’ll analyze how the World Magic Cup competitors could go about this. This restriction leads to an interesting deck construction puzzle that revolves around minimizing overlap. For example, if one player’s deck contains a single Lava Coil, then no other player on that team may use Lava Coil in their deck. In this format, any team of three players has to build three Standard-legal decks, but no two decks on a team can contain the same card (with the exception of basic lands). But even a jujitsu or hand-manipulation deck should have a few cards capable of dealing normal damage in case of an uncooperative opponent, so the test is still fair.One of the formats for the World Magic Cup, which will be held on December 14-16 in Barcelona, is Team Unified Standard. Decks based around these concepts will do better against real opponents than the Goldfish test would indicate. Also, the Goldfish opponent has no hand, so Black Vise and The Rack don't deal any damage and Hymn to Tourach is pointless. None of these tests will really give a good measure of a jujitsu deck's abilities. If your deck consistently scores over ten, you're likely to get chewed up by faster decks.Įxceptions to this are jujitsu-style decksthose that do almost nothing on their own, but turn all your opponent's forces against him. A more typical fast deck will score seven or eight fairly consistently. Five or less is an amazing score, usually possible only with extremely lucky shuffles or a deck loaded with out-of-print cards. Do this several times, and average the results to get a measure of the sheer brute power of your deck. Unless, of course, it's a "jujitsu" decksee below.)Ĭount how many turns it takes to kill the fish. (If your deck can't deal 20 points of damage against a defenseless opponent, it's time to give up Magic and start playing Go Fish. All you have to do is deal 20 points of damage as quickly as possible.
The most basic deck-test (originally called "The Test" on Usenet) is very much like a goldfish: it's an opponent who doesn't do anything. It just swims around in its bowl, and then one day the cat eats it or you come in and find it floating belly-up. A goldfish is a rather boring pet: it doesn't do much, and you can't really interact with it.
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