The Metagame Check- GW "Zoo"

The Metagame Check


with Samuel Wells



Hello all! I am Samuel Wells bringing you another metagame check.


The first weekend of M15 in standard has come and gone. SCG Baltimore did not see much of
new decks. Mono-Black and Mono-Blue decks ruled the day taking 6 of 8 top slots. More has been said about these decks since the Theros release than any other deck in the format. Beyond this, no major innovations were made to existing decks. Mainly for comfort with the existing archetypes in a new M15 changing meta.


One deck did catch my eye in the top 8 though. That was Andrew Boswell’s GW aggro list.


http://sales.starcitygames.com//deckdatabase/displaydeck.php?DeckID=70271


For anyone who knows me, this should come as no surprise to why I am excited to see a GW
aggro list making waves. What struck me about this list was the lower curve of the deck.

BSB Podcast- Pre-Standard Ramblings

BSB Podcast!- Pre-Standard Ramblings


Third Podcast in our series. Basically Pete and myself rambling about....stuff! Standard, pre-M15.

We go over a few things:

Trading Post.dec
Blog and Facebook group (go join!)
Random things....like me getting whooped on stream by BG dredge!

Either way it's always a good listen, keep tuning in. Thank you all for continuing to listen, and for all you new-comers, hope you enjoy.

For reference, here's Pete's list:

Rakdos Trading Post:

3 Trading Post 3 Meteorite 2 Ratchet Bomb 2 Hammer of Purphoros 4 Mizzium Mortars 4 Dreadbore 3 Phyrexian Revoker 3 Scuttling Doom Engine 3 Prophetic Prism 4 Shrapnel Blast 2 Haunted Plate Mail 4 Rakdos Keyrune

4 Darksteel Citadel 4 Blood Crypt 4 Temple of Malice 4 Mutavault 7 Mountain Sideboard: 4 Toil / Trouble 4 Searing Blood 2 Rakdos Charm 1 Pithing Needle 3 Wear / Tear 1 Shattering Blow

The Magic Mondays- Pre-releasing and Deck-building

The Magic Mondays- Pre-releasing and Deckbuilding

with Chaz Volpe

Hey all! It’s that time for my Magic Mondays! I know it has been a week but sometimes I may have to forego Magic Mondays in lieu of making the Podcast (if you haven’t listened to the latest one go tune in!). That being said, the M15 pre-release weekend is in the books and there has been buzz abound the social-media networks that BSB is a part of. This week I wanted to share with you some pre-release stories, impressions, and deckbuilding for new Standard. A lot of talking sharing and discussing has been going on and I urge all of you to become a part of the community, we’re growing and seemingly gaining popularity.

I also wanted to re-iterate again, thank you all for the continued support and following along with us. We are now over 2,000 views on the blog and we are so very appreciative to you all! Without you readers and followers it wouldn't create a drive to do what we do. Again, thank you so much.

So let’s get to it yeah?

I first want to share some social media stuff with you all showcasing some pre-release stories, we would also love to hear yours! I always enjoy including the community into my articles.

Best pulls for my pre-release so far! #MTGM15 #mtg pic.twitter.com/xVdyNHjHKN
— Redhawk Will (@RedhawkWill) July 13, 2014

The Metagame Check

Meta Game Check

with Samuel Wells



Hello! once again to this special spoiler season metagame check. As I teased last week, the
card that I see as poised to takeover in m15 is Chord of Calling. 
This should come to no surprise to people who have seen this card in action. Unlike eternal
formats, Chord will not be used to find the missing combo pieces in the deck. What Chord does provide is the ability to reliably set up some very powerful engines. I will discuss two current Tier 1.5 standard decks that have the potential to blow up with the new tools coming out in the core set.

M15 Mini-Podcast Rant! We're Back!

BSB M15 Podcast Rant:

Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh…..!

Ahhhh, we’re back! Here’s an M15 rant with Pete Casella and myself. We (mainly Pete!) just couldn't wait and had to go on a tangent about M15. So here you all go, ENJOY!

I took the liberty of adding the decklists that Pete and I talked about.

You can find mine here: 2nd one down.

http://boltsnapbolt.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-magic-mondays-apex-predatorand.html

Here is Pete’s: Look at that seal of approval, that confidence.

4 Thoughtseize 3 Duress 4 Waste Not 4 Shrieking Affliction 3 Mind Rot 4 Hero's Downfall 4 Dreadbore 4 Lifebane Zombie 2 Devour Flesh 2 Rakdos's Return 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter 3 Liliana Vess

4 Blood Crypt 4 Mana Confluence 1 Temple of Malice 9 Swamp 4 Mutavault Sideboard: 3 Doom Blade 3 Drown in Sorrow 2 Dark Betrayal 2 Erebos, God of the Dead 1 Pithing Needle 2 Bile Blight 2 Slaughter Games

M15 Impressions with the BSB Group

First Impressions of M15 with BSB members

With the BSB group:

M15 is fully spoiled!

Hey everyone! Chaz here, though the narrative of this particular update is not from solely myself, but with the rest of the group here at BSB. I posed the question on Facebook as follows:

So, there is the premise of what members had to respond with. To give you all an idea of what's been going on in our group in regards to M15, hopefully their ideas will help you all to forming your own conclusions. There has been some varying ideas, though there has also been a shared mentality to specific cards as well.

So here are the responses in order in which they were given:

Adding Features and Opened Comments to all!

For some reason or another we didn't realize the comment section wasn't open to everyone. So, comment away! 

Also adding some more functionality (to the best of my ability) to the blog. I'll continue to add everything I can to make things easy for you all to read/navigate/post. Also for me to keep everything connected. Twitter/FB/ect.

Enjoy! Hope you all enjoyed your 4th of July *Americans* and expect a article covering the fully spoiled M15.

The Magic Mondays- Apex Predator...and other good ****

The Magic Mondays- Apex Predator...and other good ****.

With Chaz Volpe

Ohhhhhhh man. A LOT has happened in one week since our last time together here on Magic Monday’s. Hey everyone, how’re you? Oh, your head exploded from M15 spoilers? Mine almost did too. Did you sit there and jump up and down in your underwear when SCG spoiled Chord of Calling? ….Me too. With that being said, let’s get on with the Magic Mondays!

Wow.

The Magic Mondays! Welcome.

The Magic Mondays- Welcome! M2015 Spoilers/Recent Decklists

Hello everyone! It’s me, Chaz, again. I elected to do another bit in addition to the financial piece I write every week. WELCOME, to The Magic Monday’s! In this segment I will go over mostly anything that people want me to go over, yes, it’s that simple! I ask you the readers, and members of our community at BoltSnapBolt (join, by the way) of topics to go over. This week I will tackle some fresh new spoilers, some recent placements of decks over the weekends at large events, and a deck I have been thinking about. That’s a lot! Let’s get started...shall we?