Review of Pre-con Deck: War of Attrition, Event deck in New Phyrexia. Part 1

[QuietCreed]

I saw this deck at my local card and gaming store the other day. Given that it's a bit old, would it be worth a buy for standard? Or no? I kinda want it after watching this.

[Sparkyhobbies]

@QuietCreed mmm, hard call, most of the cards are stilll legal, you'd have to fill in the spost for kor duelist, kor firewalker and journey to nowhere, they have rotated out. The big reason not to get the deck is that stoneforge mystic is not only rotated out, but banded from the modern format. So it's essentially a dead card!

I'd probably not buy it for standard, because without Journey it doesn't have the creature removal to compete with most current decks.

Great deck though.

[Ari21]

Played my first FNM last Friday (7/25/11) and won 3 of 5 matches with War of Attrition deck. Just bought the deck to play with friends on nights that we decide not to go out to a bar or club, didn't have FNM at the game shop or tournaments in mind.

[1812orion]

ah i see, thanks =]

[Sparkyhobbies]

the difference is card pool. Standard only incorporates about a year and a half of cards. Typically every fall, in october, Magic produces a large set and two companion expansions sets called a block. When they print the first new set of the block the older block from 2 years previous plus the following summer core set rotates out... and is no longer legal to play in Standard. Casual doesn't have any restrictions, and you'll typically see many of the older 10,000 uniquely printed cards.

[1812orion]

im new to magic whats the deference between casual decks and standard decks?