Competitive Magic- with Paul ‘Frodo’ Muller
Happy Thursday to all my insane magic friends!
This weekend is SCG New Jersey featuring the invitational. It will be three days of insane magic fun, but if you're like me it's really only two days because someone here couldn't grind out those last few points (that would be me!!). However, who cares, we have an insane local tournament with standard on Saturday and legacy on Sunday. Thanks to the invitational these tournaments will be insane due to all the magic players who traveled for the invitational and had a run of bad luck on Friday. This is going to raise the level of competition in the open series even more! So, what should I play on Friday, if I'm in the invitational? Well, to start, let's address the idea that the standard metagame in an invitational is different than your average tournament.
There is usually a higher than average number of control and mono black and blue because these decks have a high amount of play to them. This meta, however, opens the door for burn, so honestly for the first time in my life I'm going to suggest burn, Will O'Neil you're welcome. In addition to burn being well positioned against these controlling decks, it has the most insane matchup vs. rabble red, thanks to cards like Searing Blood. If however you don't feel like you can play a deck like this to its fullest, I would suggest you play the deck that you know the best. The math suggests this will give you 4.7% higher win rate against an open field. So, now with standard out of the way, you still need jam legacy for four rounds. While everyone owns a standard deck, very few own legacy.
