Deck Guides

For those of you who don’t have too long playing, let me tell you a story. During the first years of the game and many times after that, iterations of the Mono White Control archetype were part of the competitive…

Hello fellow gamers. Today I am here to tell you with your first four Wildcards you spend on Streets of New Capenna, you might want to consider acquiring Ob Nixilis, the Adversary. Jund (Riveteers) Grixis (Maestros) If you followed popular streamers…

Some time ago a pro player said: “If you want to make an archetype work, see how that strategy is doing in other formats.” When I started thinking about playing mill in Standard, referring to our latest Mythic Championship was…

Dimir (Blue / Black) Control deck guide for the Standard format, fully updated for Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Standard and the April 2022 ranked season. Introduction Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty never ceases to amaze me. I hope Streets of New Capenna makes…

In the last few months, Orzhov has been a major part of Standard. Everything started with a Mono Black Control deck featuring and back in Standard 2022. After that, many variants of Black control decks emerged. We had seen Orzhov…

Does anyone remember ? Before Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty, many claimed that this green vehicle had to be banned. Wizards of the Coast also rebalanced it for Alchemy and Historic purposes, but just like , the card is still great in…

Some aggressive strategies rely on piling threat on top of threat quickly to overwhelm your opponent early and consistently.  This Azorius Tempo deck has a similar play style. However, where aggro decks tend to be more about deciding how to…

Some of you may remember Value Town, a GW deck born 5 or 6 years ago. Many creatures in that deck had an ETB ability (ETB: Enter the Battlefield) like . The ones that didn’t usually were very good while…

Standard Izzet Control Competitive Deck Guide - Small Creatures Beware by DoggertQBones

Hello fellow gamers. Doesn’t it feel like certain colors on the color-pie of Magic get neglected? I don’t know if this has been your experience, but to me, the allied colors of nature and order (green and white) seem to…

Without a doubt, Orzhov is one of the most emblematic archetypes in Standard since Adventures in the Forgotten Realms. The archetype has done well ever since, and it’s certainly a deck we can’t ignore no matter how much the meta…

Hello everyone! Today I’ll be going over Jeskai Storm, a control-combo deck built around and . This deck made its debut in the hands of cftsoc, who took down a thousand-person tournament and won an invite to the Mythic Championship…

Hello fellow gamers, I have a confession to make, I love to make my opponents despair by robbing them of everything. It’s not because I am vindictive, it is more that I like to have an answer to their threat,…

Sometimes the weirdest decks are the best ones. Naya Aggro has taken Standard by storm and DoggertQBones is all about weird aggro decks! Learn why double splashing in Mono White is the future of the archetype!

Sometimes certain decks can go unnoticed. Maybe because nobody has taken them to win a tournament or they aren’t at the top of the ladder. However, in the many decks that can fly under the radar, there are some true…

Monoblack Discard was one of DoggertQBones' favorite decks in 2022 and it finally seems viable again! Learn the art of grinding the opponent into the dirt with this fun and surprisingly strong deck!

Having played about a week of this new Standard, I can say that it’s definitely been a long time since I had this much fun in this format. Unlike last week when I wrote about Mono Red and everything was…