just found a new mtg cycling deck and crafted it. its easy to play, has almost no rares and a remarkably good winrate:
Deck
4 Sacred Foundry (GRN) 254
10 Plains (ANA) 61
4 Mountain (ANA) 64
4 Flourishing Fox (IKO) 13
4 Valiant Rescuer (IKO) 36
4 Boon of the Wish-Giver (IKO) 43
4 Frostveil Ambush (IKO) 52
4 Startling Development (IKO) 68
4 Memory Leak (IKO) 95
4 Drannith Stinger (IKO) 113
4 Go for Blood (IKO) 122
4 Zenith Flare (IKO) 217
2 Savai Triome (IKO) 253
4 Drannith Healer (IKO) 10
Sideboard
1 Lurrus of the Dream Den (IKO) 226
Good deck. (y) Again another case where I could use a "mixed reaction". The cycling deck is indeed quite a powerful one! Especially considering the ease of acquisition. I must say I don't enjoy playing against it all that much thus my mixed feelings.
I myself am waiting to really play standard competitively until the fall when the sets rotate. I usually just throw together a deck using what I have & grind to gold ranks for the packs. Prior to Ikoria I was using a mono-red
deck that performed quite well. Turn 4 shock or ember hauler into multiple skewer the critics for a different take on the usual 'Embercleave' game ender.
It's just something I threw together with the cards I have as an alternative to the traditional mono-red as I lack enough copies of some of the staples. In general I lack proper lands thus my use of mono in general. I could just use my wild cards but I still haven't decided if it's worth it. I planned on saving them until fall. My plan was to have full play sets of everything in standard upon rotation in the fall. As for the deck I just mentioned it worked well for grinding last season. I could probably continue to use it but have been enjoying a mono-black Obosh deck. Again very far from the meta version due to lack of cards but still quite playable.
![:\](https://bluelight.org/xf/BL_Images/Orig_Emoji/wrygrin.gif "wry grin :\")
I'm mostly focused ATM on rare drafting to acquire IKO. It can be frustrating as hell though to pass on building a great limited deck to grab rares though. I'll keep at it though as it seems to be the best way to build up a collection for standard in the fall. I might end up using some of my wild cards if I think I'll have enough to have extras by the fall. In which case I'd likely use the WC to get the required lands necessary for a competitive standard deck. I'm going to have to ponder that actually. I'm not sure how many WC I'll really want / need in the fall as I plan on having the sets acquired before then. I started playing partway into THB. I'm not that far away from full play sets of THB. I was able to draft quite a bit with it once I realized that was the thing to do.
Having been away from MTG for 2 decades & rediscovering it things had changed a lot. Drafting wasn't a thing back when I stopped playing sometime around revised IIRC. I'm using my gold from dailies & such to open ELD packs. I'm hoping to work on completing it next time ELD rolls around on quick draft. Same thing with Theros. I still have packs from THB but figure I'll wait till I can complete rare drafting it when it rolls around quick draft again before opening the packs for the highest efficiency. If for some reason I get some extra $ & can afford to buy some packs that might change plans a bit but for now using essentially FTP I'm doing alright on collecting cards for the fall. I think it's quite doable if I can just learn to not worry about now & play with the goal of being able to do standard in the fall.
I'm rambling though
. I enjoy discussing the game & haven't had to much chance to do so. I better get going & get my day moving but I'm sure I'll be posting in this thread again before to long.
I am hoping to get that cycling deck together through drafting at some point. Actually the draft I just did was my first cycling draft. Not quite as good a draft as cycling could be but considering I was rare drafting I think it came together decent. 1-0 so far. I'll be playing the rest later today. Hopefully it goes well!
