Finally, The Rock Has Come Back To Standard
Based upon the powerful Black cards present in Champions of Kamigawa, however, if there was going to be a breakout deck, conventional wisdom stated that it was either going to be a new take on Mono-Black Control or a reprise of the classic Black/Green midgame deck first pioneered by Sol Malka, best known as The Rock. Mono-Black was out there, but it didn’t have the success at States that The Rock did.
[I’m just going to state for the record that I dislike calling the new B/G decks Rock decks, but it’s Dave’s article and he likes the title……
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