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Hi, I'm Damien! I'm a Canadian television and voice actor turned streamer! I've been playing Magic: the Gathering since the early 1990's when the game first released, and was heavily involved in competitive Magic for many years.
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With Aetherdrift having finally screeched into Standard, it has many deck-builders all revved up about new strategies and synergies, while many other players are simply tinkering and tuning under the hood of the existing, established decks in order to find any new tools which may bolster them. Today, we'll cover a couple of the more interesting new brews that have surfaced and how they play out.
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Aetherdrift, the first of six Standard-legal sets coming in 2025, is already cruising into local game stores and players' hands in just a few short weeks, which means the pace of spoilers has been fast and furious.
While the entire set hasn't been completely spoiled at the time of this writing, there are already several spicy additions to the Standard format which got people talking, so today, let's go over one of the most potentially powerful cards that have been revealed from Aetherdrift thus far.
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As the arms race in the Standard format continues to devolve into who has the cheapest, most efficient threats, it seems like there is less and less space for late-game decks to thrive.
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With the largest Standard tournament since Grand Prix Nagoya all the way back in 2019 concluding this past weekend, players are abuzz with talk of the emerging shape of the metagame, the new decks on the block, Esper Pixie and Selesnya Cage, as well as the metamorphosis that Dimir midrange seems to be undergoing.
However, buried deep in the standings were plenty of other hidden gems, such as the return of the Temur Fireballs deck, as well as several flavors of reanimator, among other assorted rogue decks. While all eyes were on Atlanta and the Magic Spotlight tournament, one such rogue deck did have an interesting run, taking down a fifty-six player Regional Championship Qualifier in Spain. A 'reanimator' deck that's not bringing back any creatures, but that also kills the opponent on turn four? Let's talk about Azorius Omniscience combo.
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As the rest of the world ushers in the coming year, competitive Magic: the Gathering players are still stuck in late 2024…at least until the end of the ongoing Standard Regional Championship Qualifier season, which won't wrap up until a couple of months from now.
The format up to this point has seen several big shifts as players try to get an edge over one another in their attempts to find the best deck for any given weekend, and uncover any hidden gems that may be lurking in the new sets that have been released since the qualifier season began.
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The Standard format saw more high-level competitive play as the Arena Championship 7 happened this past weekend, where just under fifty players battled for a piece of the hefty $250,000 prize pool, pro tour invites and a couple of entries into the Magic World Championships 31 taking place in 2025. Now that the dust has settled, there's plenty of data to pore over, giving us a pretty good snapshot of where the Standard format currently sits, and where it may trend in the coming weeks.
