A First Look At Magic Origins
Gerry takes an in-depth look at Magic Origins, building around key cards like Starfield of Nyx, Languish, and each of the four flip-Planeswalkers spoiled so far.
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: When You Play This Deck, Everything Is (Over) Easy
In today’s Daily Digest, Gerry looks at a new take on the old Eggs archetype, using Krark-Clan Ironworks to put a new engine in a deck so good they had to ban a card out of it.
Video: Bant Control In Standard
Having concluded that Abzan is the best deck in Standard overall, Gerry goes in search of a deck with a favorable Abzan matchup and takes a Megamorph-ish Bant Control deck out for a test drive.
Daily Digest: Aggro “Landstill”
Gerry takes another look at Legacy thanks to a recent 4-0 finish that evolves a well-known former archetype – Landstill – by taking out some of the key components, including Standstill itself.
Daily Digest: An Old Favorite Returns, For Real This Time
Blue Devotion is a powerful strategy, and a lot of new cards have left people wondering when it will finally have its breakout performance. It’s just waiting for the right build, and this may be the one!
Daily Digest: The Day Nourishing Shoal Sold Out
Sometimes, just sometimes, Nourishing Shoal does crazy things it shouldn’t be able to do – usually involving Griselbrand. Gerry takes a look at the latest iteration of the Goryo’s Vengeance deck, courtesy of Grand Prix Charlotte.
Video: Temur Artifacts In Standard
With the Standard metagame seeming to be very well-defined, Gerry wanted to try out a new archetype to see how good it is – check out this unusual Temur deck based around powerful artifact interactions.
Daily Digest: Beating Up On Brainstorm
Legacy is a format full of powerful cards and high-octane strategies, and there is nothing quite like copying Cloudposts and casting Eldrazi to push you even further over the top.
Modern Aftermath
With Grand Prix Charlotte in the books, Gerry takes a look back at his deck for the event, the other directions he was thinking about trying out, and what the results from that tournament mean for the metagame as a whole.
Daily Digest: Merging Obscure Archetypes
There’s nothing quite like mashing together two decks that don’t look like they’d fit in the least and finding out it actually works. Today, Gerry takes a look at the weirdest Temur deck we’ve seen in a while.
Daily Digest: When Dragons Evolve
Mardu Dragons has been making big gains in Standard in recent weeks, and Gerry takes a look at a variation on the archetype that might be the next step forward.
Daily Digest: Building A Better Storm
Legacy decks often update with fair regularity as new sets release and the format shifts… but Gerry has found an archetype that hasn’t budged much in years, and he wonders what a new take on it might look like.
Daily Digest: Utopia Sprawl Is Taking Over Modern, Part 3
Gerry continues his search for interesting facets of the Modern metagame, and he’s unearthed a pretty sweet Bant brew that you might want to check out before this weekend’s Grand Prix Charlotte!
Daily Digest: Omni-Hybrid
While the focus recently has been directed away from Legacy, there is still plenty of evolution going on. Check out this new multicolor twist on Omni-Tell that puts Young Pyromancer to work!
Adapting Jund For GP Charlotte
Gerry looks back on his results from the Season Two Invitational, and takes advantage of the fact that the metagame has narrowed following that event to set his sights on Grand Prix Charlotte.