Ravnica upon us

Hallo readers. What's hip?

Return to Ravnica is here. That's pretty big. I enjoyed two flights at Mega Games, penrith, as Izzet then Azorious. The most of that was written in my good games article, which can be read here: http://community.goodgames.com.au/

And now testing has begun! JDNoice and Ammonium are already testing, but I had to skip it on account of today's public holiday status. Public transport for two hours on a normal day turns into a life sentence when it's public holiday timing.

We cracked some good cards between us all, but I feel the strongest pull towards blue/white with a sub theme blue/red. Not surprising. The main punch of the deck will the aggressive version of the blue/white creatures from the deck I rumourised about previously, also including Supersonic Dragon for fast punches outta nowhere and Goblin Rally. At instant speed, that card is great fun.

Terminus, I love it too much to leave out, so that's staying in, as well as 4 of the Azorious Keyrune because Wrath/animate/bash is always so good. Especially when you sweep zombies under the rub, taking no extra damage. A list:

4 Steam Vents
4 Hallowed Fountain
6 Islands
6 Plains
2 Izzet Guildgate
2 Azorious Guildgate
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24 lands

4 Judge's Familiar
4 Knight of Glory (I figured the pro black, in an early aggressive meta would be free wins)
4 Lyev Skyknight (this over Arctic Aven because it really allows the first two beats to continue, adding while applying pressure.
4 Supersonic Dragon
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16 creatures

4 Goblin Rally
4 Terminus
4 Azorious Keyrune
4 Detention Sphere.
4 Izzet Charm
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20 other


Gone is the "cutesy poo" combo of Voidstalker and Index. While Index is occasionally useful, it's no good when you see awful, and still don't have a Voidstalker ready. Stalker itself is good as proper removal, seeing the offending creature is actually removed from the battlefield. Sure they might come back, but just play another one!

I imagine a sideboard would get down to really ridiculous beatdown, featuring the colour based artifact to give us a 3/3 flyer on turn 2. It sounds great to me.

It is possible that New Prahv Guildmage is the better two drop, but I can't shake the idea that everyone's favourite multi colour bashers will be everywhere, so Rakdos and Golgari, you don't say.

sideboard:
4 Civic Saber (do note, does not pump toughness)
1 Cyclonic Rift
1 Supreme Verdict
3 Essence Backlash
3 Annihilating Fire
3 Izzet Staticaster

Maybe that. Yes this list specifically ignores a lot of the actual Standard environment, but seeing so much of it dissappeared over night, there's not really a Standard to build against. I'm going to start attending more FNM now too, seeing the evolution of the Standard environment is going to be super critical, and watching it's every move will be reported here.

At the moment, code fun.

Thanks for reading.