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AuthorGerry Thompson

Gerry Thompson is a Constructed specialist, Platinum pro, and former SCG Tour end boss. His career highlights include twelve Grand Prix Top 8s with two wins and seven SCG Invitational Top 8s with two wins. He won Pro Tour Amonkhet, lost in the finals of Pro Tour Rivals of Ixalan, and made the Top 8 of Pro Tour Gatecrash. Many of the first SCG Tour records were set by him.

Daily Digest: Modern Mayhem!

#SCGINVI will be largely dictated by the Modern game the players bring to the table, and this deck has a great chance at crushing out of nowhere! Check out GerryT’s latest Daily Digest entry!

Daily Digest: Joe Drawsett

GerryT pays tribute to one of the great control players on the Open Series today. But be warned! If you plan to sleeve this one up for #SCGINVI, you’d better have your practice in!

Daily Digest: The Most Underplayed Archetype In Modern

#SCGDEN may show us at the next big thing at its $5,000 Modern Premier IQ! Based on its matchups and its gameplan, don’t be surprised if this one starts up the format’s ladder fast!

Daily Digest: Endless Fun

The amount of Eldrazi tech that’s available to us in only now becoming apparent. And we’re not just talking about Standard! Try to process this deck before #SCGDEN’s $5,000 Modern Premier IQ!

Daily Digest: Remington Steele

Esper Dragons has been on the rise in Standard over the last month, but does it have what it takes to conquer Modern’s $5,000 Premier IQ at #SCGDEN? GerryT thinks the answer may surprise you!

Narrowing Down Standard

GerryT has #SCGINVI to prep for, and #SCGDEN is this weekend. So what deck will it be? Gerry chronicles the overrated, the underrated, and everything in between!

Daily Digest: Eduardo Masterpiece

Knight of the Reliquary and Retreat to Coralhelm are continuing to make waves in Modern. This build proved itself at a recent GP, and it stands to reason it can do it again at #SCGDEN’s $5,000 Premier IQ!

Video: U/W Tron In Modern

G/R Tron has been on the rise for over a month, but GerryT remembers a different Urzatron build that he wants to experiment with for the $5,000 Modern Premier IQ at #SCGDEN!

Daily Digest: My New Modern Deck

If at first you don’t succeed, continue failing until your pet card finally becomes playable. GerryT is ready to go on a tear since his all-time favorite little Magic buddy is finally finding the winner’s circle! See if you can take this little guy to the top at #SCGDEN’s $5,000 Modern Premier IQ!

Daily Digest: Neo-Esper

It seems you can’t go wrong in Standard as long as you’re playing Esper! Check out the continual evolution of a Shaheen Soorani dream world as we go into the weekend’s #SCGNJ $5,000 Standard Premier IQ!

Daily Digest: Adverse Conditions Ahead

Ramp is on the rise, and the Eldrazi are to blame! This deck has proven it can win an event, and GerryT wants to show its strengths (and weaknesses) before you head to #SCGNJ’s $5,000 Standard Premier IQ!

Range

GerryT explains why you voluntarily give game wins away, what it means to look at the world and Magic as it is and not as you see it, and a number of other tips and traps that no aspiring player should be unaware of!

Daily Digest: Come Out To Play

Raise your banners! Standard has milked most of the mechanics of Khans block, but one strategy took all the way until now to become a factor! Release your inner Warrior at #SCGNJ’s $5,000 Premier IQ this weekend!

Video: B/W Warriors In Standard

Don’t look now, but yet another new archetype has proven itself to be a great option for #SCGNJ’s $5,000 Standard Premier IQ! GerryT previews the latest Standard breakout deck!

Daily Digest: Hard Nak Life

In securing yet another Grand Prix Top 8, one Hall of Famer has tweaked this Standard archetype to be a major player again! See the deck that just won’t die and take it to #SCGNJ’s $5,000 Standard Premier IQ!