After scouring decklist databases and Daily Event statistics, Ari gives a Bant Collected Company deck a try to see how well it stacks up against the field after hearing a claim that it has the highest win percentage among all of the tracked archetypes.
Watching at home to get a full view of what happened at #SCGCHI through the coverage and results, Ari takes a round-by-round look as the Week One Magic Origins Standard metagame develops.
With many things on his mind, Ari’s column today is a grab bag of issues, analysis, and his expectations as Magic Origins enters Standard and Modern evolves between now and the World Championships in August.
After making fun of it for a very long time, Ari has seen just enough success for the Modern Merfolk archetype to pique his curiosity. He takes the deck out for a spin in order to figure out whether or not it’s improved and form a new opinion.
Want to crush your Magic Origins Prerelease this weekend? Check inside for part two of Ari sharing everything you could possibly need to know about the set just in time to win no matter what you open.
Want to crush your Magic Origins Prerelease this weekend? Ari is here to share everything you could possibly need to know about the set; check this out today and then come back for part two tomorrow!
Kiki-Jiki has been largely absent in Modern since the banning of Birthing Pod, but Collected Company may help revitalize that archetype in much the same way as it brought back the Melira-Pod deck now in Podless form.
Ari Lax loves Storm something fierce, and Magic Origins has quite a present waiting inside for him. He also analyzes the rest of the set too with a critical eye – what will win him his second Pro Tour trophy?
Nourishing Shoal has recently made the Griselbrand/Goryo’s Vengeance archetype in Modern far more interesting, and in today’s video Ari puts Jacob Wilson’s 11th-place decklist from Grand Prix Copenhagen through its paces to prepare you for the $5,000 Modern Premier IQ at #SCGBALT.
Pro Tour Champion Ari Lax discusses the recent successes of an aggressive, recursive build of G/R Dragons, joined by two guests who have had recently had strong finishes with the deck: Steve Rubin and Eric Rill!
Pro Tour Champion Ari Lax takes G/R Devotion out for an intensive test session to prepare for Grand Prix Providence this weekend!
Ari takes a look at the things that truly matter in our present Standard format and how they evolved to this point in order to divine the likely future developments and get out ahead of them.
If big-mana decks like Tron and Amulet Bloom are going to continue dominating Modern, their weakness might be against decks like Infect that just don’t give them any time. Ari tests that theory in today’s video!
Pro Tour Champion Ari Lax analyzes the results from this weekend’s Season Two Invitational and Modern Open to see how the metagame shifted to get to this point – and crunches data to figure out what to expect this weekend at Grand Prix Charlotte!
Want the most thorough analysis of nearly every known Modern deck in the game today? Pro Tour Champion gives lists and talks matchups, weaknesses, strengths, and everything in between for #SCGINVI and Grand Prix Charlotte!
