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I'm Luciano, Italian MTG player since 2003. I play every available format on MTG Arena on a competitive level. Semi-finalist at the Arena Championship 3.
Duskmourn: Limited Archetypes Guide!
Duskmourn: House of Horror has been fully revealed and it’s time for our usual analysis of the archetypes and color pairs for each new set!
The prerelease is already playable in paper starting this weekend, while if you are a digital-only player you will have to wait a couple more days as Duskmourn will be available on MTG Arena starting September 24th.
There is no time to waste, so let's take courage and venture into the monstrosities of this house of horror like an exploratory group from an 80's movie... Hoping to be one of the protagonists or maybe the cameraman so as not to die!
Today I opened MTG Arena and to my surprise I discovered that the Midweek Magic event going on was Historic Pauper! I was totally unprepared but, since the format is awesome and you can play it only rarely in these special events, I couldn't miss this opportunity and, just like I did for Historic Artisan, I had to bring you some of my brews!
I played the format a lot in the past and it has turned out to be one of my favorites on MTG Arena, but now I had been stopped for a few months, since unfortunately there is no permanent queue on the platform and therefore I have not felt encouraged to continue it, giving priority to other formats. However, I recovered some of the downtime with a few hours of play in the event, trying out some new releases of recent times and perfecting some of my decklists still unpublished, so this time too we are there... Here's my 5 brews for Historic Pauper!
#1 Red Tokens
The preview of Duskmourn: House of Horror has already begun and this will be a quick one, as the entire set will be revealed by September 12th. It will be playable on MTG Arena starting on the 24th of this month, while the official release is scheduled for the 27th.
With so little time available and so much to see, let's immediately dive into this new world but above all into this new horror setting inspired by the movies and games of the 80s, starting to get familiar with what awaits us!
The Plot and the Characters
A couple of months ago we were here wondering the heist mechanic would be too strong in post-rotation Alchemy and if they would nerf it. With the release of Alchemy Bloomburrow we can say we have received the first answers, as WotC seems to have compensated for the power of this ability with new cards that are equally powerful, releasing a set that also, especially thanks to the tribal factor of Bloomburrow, has an above-average amount of playables.
But which are the best ones?
After a week, for a format not excessively played like Alchemy, we are still in an experimental phase and it's still early to identify exactly what is impacting the meta the most, but of course there are already several brews online, as well as cards that are objectively strong and with high potential.
Goblins are some of the most iconic creatures in Magic: the Gathering, present in the vast majority of planes of the Multiverse and have been around since the very beginning, with the first appearances in Alpha of: Goblin Balloon Brigade, Mons's Goblin Raiders and Goblin King (the latter wasn't technically a Goblin at the time, but I guess it counts!).
I've always loved this tribe and in my many years of the game I've played it in every possible format, sometimes even just for fun when sadly the deck wasn't competitive enough for that environment.
Among the many successful versions and personal brews, I have accumulated quite a bit of material and little by little I would like to show the best of it to all the little-green-men lovers out there!
Last time we talked about the nerfs that hit Boros Energy in Historic and I left you with a question: "Has Wizards of the Coast managed to bring the deck back to the same level as the others?".
In case you missed it and want to know more about the recent Historic rebalances, together with my thoughts, I'll leave the article below so you can catch up!
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It happened! As announced, Historic was rebalanced on August 6th, changing the text of some cards with the aim of weakening a very specific deck: Boros Energy!
As Wizards of the Coast said, the latter began to dominate the field shortly after the release of Modern Horizons 3 and pushed out other archetypes and possible new brews that would add diversity to the format.
The confirmation of this supremacy came with the Arena Championship 6, where Boros Energy represented 58% of the metagame and even won in the hands of Wouter Noordzij. It was the straw that broke the camel's back and there was no longer any doubt: something had to change!
Bloomburrow has only been on MTG Arena for a few days, and, while many players still have to get familiar with the new limited, it's a good idea to start analyzing the format and collecting some initial data.
In fact, this month's Arena Qualifier Weekend is in Sealed format and it doesn't leave us much time to prepare as it's about to happen soon, on August 10th. Furthermore, if you haven't qualified yet and would like to be, tomorrow (August 3rd) there will be the Play-In Best-of-One, which is most likely preferable to the Best-of-Three because it's slightly easier to qualify. Let's not waste any more time then and dive in!
For those who are starting from scratch and haven't had the opportunity to learn the format, I suggest taking a look at the featured article below first, where I show what the color pairs are, the cards for each archetype and some synergies you can have between them.