[Article] Eternal Europe:Everything You Need to Know about GP Providence

[Mon,Goblin Chief]

With the GP coming up this weekend, I refrained from doing another "ok, these are the X best decks, play one of them" kind of article - others have taken care of that pretty well by now. Instead I collected a number of thoughts about the metagame, sleeper-cards and -decks to help inform your own choices for the GP.

Take a look:

http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/l...rovidence.html

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I thought this was a great article, I enjoyed reading it.

[Finn]

Yup. It was insightful as hell and IMO gave exactly the right amount of ink to Misstep.

Also, thanks Carsten, for the nod last week.

[Mon,Goblin Chief]

Thanks a lot, happy you enjoyed it!

@Finn: Well, you definitely deserved props for showing me I was wrong :)

[Grollub]

Very nice article!

Something I think you're missing in the list of sleepers is the red blasts and decks that can fully capitalize on them. A deck like old school Sligh (the more controlish build) looks like it could do really well in this slower and mostly blue metagame.

[DragoFireheart]

I'm glad they went over ways to counter standstill. Too often I've seen people break it in a inappropriate manner.

[TooCloseToTheSun]

I'm glad they went over ways to counter standstill. Too often I've seen people break it in a inappropriate manner.

I haven't read the article yet, I have to do something at work today, but did you cover how and when to play standstill. And better yet when to board it out. Too many times I have seen people run out a standstill on turn 2 without even considering the board state. One time it was in the merfolk mirror my opponent went first played a land and passed, I played vial and passed. Then they played standstill. Then they waited til they had lost 10 life and I had a bunch of dudes out but no LOA and they broke the standstill with a LOA and lost the next turn.