Daily Digest: How To Steal Wins
Punishing Fire is a great tool in Legacy for beating up on creature decks, and so is the Counterbalance / Terminus shell powered up by Sensei’s Divining Top. What if we put all of these things together?
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.
A Third Look At Magic Origins
GerryT is in a mood to brew, and he’s got all sorts of spicy ideas boiling over in his brain. Check out his thoughts on a variety of new Standard decks featuring Magic Origins and give them a test drive, maybe one will be right for you at #SCGCHI!
Daily Digest: Legacy Is Great
Only in Legacy can an all-but-forgotten Tier Three archetype show up and put two players in the same Grand Prix Top Eight. Just when you think it’s solved, things shift on you at least a little – that is why it’s such an awesome format!
Video: Esper Gifts In Modern
Modern is a surprisingly wide-open format right now, and Gerry takes a powerful deck from that second or third tier of archetypes, Gifts Control, to test out in today’s video!
Daily Digest: The Aristocrats, Act VIII
We’ve seen all sorts of powerful and popular Standard decks make their way into Modern, and now it’s The Aristocrats’s turn. Check out one clever mage’s plan to sacrifice things for fun and profit!
Daily Digest: How To Stack Up Wins
Powerful decks have a habit of jumping formats, and when a deck jumps from Legacy to Modern or from Vintage to Legacy, paying attention is a good idea. Stax has been ported to Legacy before, but today’s build might just have the right stuff!
Daily Digest: Black Zoo
Zoo decks have always been assumed to be green, for whatever reason, but if the metric you’re shooting for is not “raw size” but instead favors a different characteristic, another color might rise to prominence. Check out this unusual take at Tribal Zoo!
Daily Digest: How To Ascend The Ranks
Modern is where great Standard decks go when they die, and Collected Company might just help power out an Aristocrats-type deck if that is what you wanted to do.
A Second Look At Magic Origins
With more than half the set spoiled, GerryT feels confident that it’s going to pull Standard in one specific direction and has started building new decks with that in mind.
Daily Digest: Creative Company
Collected Company is tearing it up in Modern, and the more interesting the Company deck, the more GerryT likes it! Today’s deck comes from the Top Eight of Grand Prix Singapore, and it’s a sweet one!
Video: Esper Mentor In Legacy
After featuring it in yesterday’s Daily Digest, GerryT felt compelled to work on Legacy this week and puts Monastery Mentor through its paces in the Gitaxian Probe/Cabal Therapy/Brainstorm format to see how crazy it really is.
Daily Digest: Unearthing Some Technology
Monastery Mentor has been breaking out all across Modern in recent experiments, and it’s even found a home in Vintage as a powerful kill card. In today’s Daily Digest, Gerry looks at a deck trying to find it a good home in Legacy, where its spell-triggered token generation is particularly good with Cabal Therapy.
Daily Digest: Attacking A New Resource
A dedicated land destruction deck is one of the most frustrating archetypes to face off against, which makes today’s deck the ultimate in Modern griefer strategies.
Daily Digest: Standard Zoo
Standard has turned out to be quite an aggressive format in recent weeks, and the potential for it to stay aggressive is stronger than we may realize. Give this Naya Zoo deck a try before #SCGBALT this weekend!
Daily Digest: The Best Way To Gain Value
Gerry looks back to Modern for a moment to examine an intriguing deck from Grand Prix Copenhagen. Do you like Chord of Calling and Restoration Angel? How about Eternal Witness and Kiki-Jiki? All value all the time, plus a sweet combo finish!