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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: Black’s Bant

GerryT played against Sam Black’s Bant Tokens deck not once, but twice at the Pro Tour. Guess how that went. For more on Sam Black’s innovative rogue brew, check out his chronicle of its creation on SCG Premium and join us for #SCGSTL’s $5,000 Standard Premier IQ this weekend!

The Life And Times Of Mardu Guy

As great as success stories are, it’s also equally hilarious to read about when a tournament doesn’t go perfectly. Respectable finisher GerryT explains his ups and downs from the PT before this weekend’s $5,000 Standard Premier IQ at #SCGSTL.

Video: Jeskai Black In Standard

GerryT will play anything he wants, but a lot of the time, he wants Jeskai. See him study this popular deck before #SCGSTL’s $5,000 Standard Premier IQ this weekend!

Daily Digest: Liliana And A Pile Of Commons

If you think you won’t see this deck at #SCGSTL’s $5,000 Standard Premier IQ, you’re out of your mind. This deck came within a few matches of stealing the Pro Tour show completely, and today, GerryT pays tribute.

Daily Digest: The Power Of Tuning

The Pro Tour is in the books, and it looks like the world’s best took a handful of archetypes that were previously established and made them a little bit better for the $5,000 Standard Premier IQ at #SCGSTL!

Daily Digest: Ali Eldrazi

Two-deck format? Please. Ali Aintrazi has always ignored the go-to decks in formats and it won him a national title in one of the least diverse formats ever. Could it win you an #SCGStates Championship this weekend?

Daily Digest: Dragon Superfriends

With G/W Megamorph and Jeskai Black sitting at the top of the current Standard metagame, any deck that looks well-positioned against both will deserve further consideration. Today’s Temur Dragons deck does exactly that, and might be worth playing at #SCGStates this weekend!

Daily Digest: Devoid Of Losses

Battle for Zendikar is full of cards that are hard to understand outside of their synergistic context, but today’s deck takes a look at the Devoid mechanic and the Ingest / Processor tensions that come with its “Colorless Matters” theme.

Beating The Big Two

It’s hard to believe that Standard might just be a two-deck metagame with a lot of fringe strategies beaten by either G/W Megamorph or Jeskai Black, and GerryT digs into each of those decks’ weaknesses in order to synthesize something new to beat them with in time for #PTBFZ and #SCGStates!

Daily Digest: Boss Megamorph

Week One of the Battle for Zendikar Standard format showed us the defining decks to start with, and Week Two allows us time for refinement. Tom “The Boss” Ross improved G/W Megamorph by adding a little blue mana, check it out for this weekend’s #SCGStates!

Daily Digest: Sifting Through Technology

Want a deck that isn’t Megamorphing or trying to splash black in Jeskai? GerryT shows off a great run at the Open Series last weekend that you can take to #SCGStates!

Daily Digest: Dragon Superfriends

With G/W Megamorph and Jeskai Black clearly at the top of the metagame charts, a deck that can beat them both is going to be worth paying attention to. Today’s deck seems to be designed with its position against both well in mind, making it a good deck to consider testing for #SCGStates this weekend!

Daily Digest: In Good Company

Looking for a creature strategy but can’t figure out which colors you want? With this Standard’s manabase configurations, you don’t have to choose! Splash what you want at #SCGATL!

Daily Digest: Scales-Go For The New Format

If you watched coverage last weekend, you may have caught a lot of +1/+1 counters littering the battlefield! If you’re a dice-enthusiast that wants to play a wild game at #SCGATL, here you go!

Why I Will Not Play Bring To Light At The Pro Tour

GerryT pulled a called shot Babe Ruth-style by telling you exactly what he was going to do last week and what deck he was going to do it with. So why doesn’t he feel confident in it heading to the Pro Tour and #SCGATL? Read to find out!