Here be dragons and here be brews!! Dragons of Tarkir has totally re-shaped standard and its such a wonderful time to be brewing! Of course these big bad dragons are cleaning house! I'm going to talk today about jumping on the bandwagon or preparing the defences and donning your most inflammable sleeves! So lets see what's happening!
So with the new set making an impact, lets analyse what's hitting up the top deck page (not the hot page, that still sucks) because not only have the main stream decks got stronger, or killed(!), there are a tonne of new decks and usually the title is "X Dragons" be it R/G Dragons or Esper dragons. Dragons seem to be fitting best into either control or midrange, and they are really ripping up standard, even making G/W into Bant because of the sheer power of Oujitai which is impressive that 1 card is so powerful it offsets the weakening of the mana base. So is it a good idea to jump o board? Well maybe, dragons are very powerful and they really are going to dominate for a while... but wait a second lets calm down, Abzan doesn't need dragons and Mardu already uses dragons so we can carry on and just adapt our decks.
However, every deck needs to adapt to the huge overhaul that Dragons has brought, which brings us onto the linking, as a little interlude I just need to talk about leaving links to my decks. For standard articles, please only leave STANDARD COMPETITIVE (or aimed to be competitive) because some people leave casual decks- which people should know i dislike, sorry but thats just me!
So now we have digressed, should we build some sweet dragon decks? Well, yes! Unless you already own an Abzan deck then why the hell not?! Its awesome fun however it does come with a warning! Dragons are crazy fun and can be so competitive, but that is at a price of they might not be so good. For example, this deck does struggle a little bit in the mana base department, however when it gets going, it wins a lot, so you just have to weed out the dodgy decks until you find, or brew, one that suits you and that can win! However make sure you can understand and react to the metagame, there is a lot of splash damage right now, so mana confluence does hurt a lot!
Sorry about my long break guys, I was in Mexico and now have revision, so its tough to sit down and write these over an essay! Hope you like it though!
Above all... keeeeeeeeeep Brainstorming!