Daily Digest: Scales-Go
With #PTOrigins dramatically shaking up the format, all sorts of new ideas are starting to come out of the woodwork as we depart the seemingly-“solved” pre-Origins metagame for a dramatically different Standard.
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: How To Beat Mono-Red And U/R Thopters
It’s time to start beating back the Mono-Red and U/R Thopters aggro metagame from #PTOrigins, and today’s brew looks like it has what it takes – all while beating down pretty handily itself!
Daily Digest: The Phoenix
Gurmag Angler has been a breakout card in older formats like Modern and Legacy, but it doesn’ get a lot of play in Standard. Today’s deck from #PTOrigins may be helping to change that, mixing mill synergies and Delve fatties to overpower a wide variety of opponents.
A Pro Tour Retrospective
GerryT made a deep run at #PTOrigins playing good old G/R Devotion in Standard and practicing a ton of Magic Origins draft, and this is the story of the Pro Tour through his eyes.
Video: U/R Thopters In Standard
After exploding basically out of nowhere to nearly take the tournament down at #PTOrigins, the U/R Thopters deck has caught everyone’s attention – including GerryT’s. Check it out as he takes the deck out for a test drive!
Daily Digest: POY Thopters
While this deck was not on anybody’s radar before #PTOrigins, U/R Ensoul Artifact was a top performer across multiple teams. Check it out and give it a try before your next Standard event – it’s much better than it looks on paper!
Daily Digest: Red Goes Back To Back
Mono-Red just won back-to-back Pro Tours by taking home the trophy this weekend at #PTOrigins… GerryT examines the PT-winning deck that will be keeping things aggressive for the next two months of Standard metagaming.
Daily Digest: Combo In Standard, Part 3
GerryT thought the Abzan Rally deck from #SCGRICH would be the be-all, end-all combo deck of Standard before #PTOrigins… but today’s deck shows there’s more combo out there if you want to look for it!
Daily Digest: Ain’t No Hangarback Girl
Magic Origins has just hit MTGO and the Daily Events are firing – what sort of odd decks will the online metagame bring us in time for #PTOrigins and #SCGRegionals this weekend? Check out today’s artifact-centric deck featuring tokens and Pyromancer’s Goggles!
Daily Digest: Revel Render
Rally the Ancestors wasn’t the only combo deck we saw at #SCGRICH – it just got all of the buzz because it crushed the tournament. There was another combo deck based off of See the Unwritten instead, playing Atarka in World Render form rather than Dragonlord – check it out!
Grixis In Modern
Ever since Kolaghan’s Command was printed, Grixis has surged to the forefront in Modern – and now it could be argued that this color combination houses the best aggro deck, the best control deck, and the best combo deck.
Daily Digest: Look To The Stars
Constellation decks have always been exciting, just chock full of card advantage and multiple enters-the-battlefield triggers, and today’s deck from the Top Eight of #SCGRICH showcases the best of what Constellation has to offer us.
Daily Digest: Rallying Back
After #SCGCHI, a lot of people were scratching their heads about the Rally the Ancestors deck, wondering whether it was any good or not. After this weekend’s tournament win for a Rally deck at #SCGRICH, it appears we have our answer.
Video: Abzan Midrange In Modern
While GerryT has been liking Jund recently as his B/G/x deck of choice, today he challenges that preconception by testing out Siege Rhino and friends to see how well it matches up against the Modern field.
Daily Digest: Thopter Mysteries
The addition of Magic Origins to the Standard card pool has really fleshed out Magic 2015’s artifacts theme, and today’s deck from #SCGCHI focuses on blue and red’s shared appreciation of colorless power cards!