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: The Red Skull

This format has shown us all a lot of different strategies, and GerryT has been kind enough to bring us many of them. Here, he has yet another we haven’t seen before! Bring this humble combo to #SCGDFW and watch the heads turn!

Daily Digest: French Company

How many ways can we abuse what is becoming one of the greatest green instants in recent memory? GerryT would like to discuss the latest means of collecting your company for #SCGDFW!

Daily Digest: Obey Your Thirst

Looking for a budget Modern deck? This one may be for you! It’s aggressive, it’s streamlined for efficiency, it has lots of fast creatures, and it’s…blue?

Daily Digest: Bobo’s Revenge

Modern is always flirting with reanimation strategies. From Gifts Ungiven to Goryo’s Vengeance, we’ve seen a lot of graveyard monsters. But we’ve never seen anything like this!

Daily Digest: Double The Ascendancies, Double The Fun!

In a Standard this diverse, you’d think we’d seen it all by now. Fortunately, that still isn’t the case, and GerryT has one today that will have you seeing double!

Why You Shouldn’t Play Bant Megamorph

GerryT played Bant to a respectable finish last weekend, but that wasn’t good enough for him! See what he thinks of the future of the strategy and the format, as well as his opinion on this year’s new Open Series two-day structure!

Daily Digest: Brad Nelson Would Be Proud

It wasn’t that many years ago that Brad Nelson was putting craters in his opponents by stomping them into oblivion. Turns out, Modern is another great format for that! See the latest in Craterhoof technology courtesy of GerryT!

Daily Digest: Blue CoCo

The most famous deck of the weekend gets its proper Daily Digest due today! GerryT gives a hat tip to the innovative deck that nearly took home the prize at the Open Series in Portland!

Daily Digest: Collect ‘Em All

Ojutai and his gang of Dragons may be the big Standard hits from the latest set, but GerryT knows Modern is a different animal! If you’re looking for a victory at the $5,000 Modern Premier IQ at #SCGPORT, you’re in good company!

The Two Best Things You Can Do In Standard

The great GerryT is on his way to #SCGPORT, and he has found that any one of two strategies are the best way to go. He shares his process, his decks, and his matchups for these strategies here!

Daily Digest: Token Control

GerryT knows that Dragonlord Ojutai isn’t the only way to control the format. So too does one Magic Online user who likes a different approach for #SCGPORT!

Daily Digest: Oh, The Brewtality!

The $5,000 Modern Premier IQ at #SCGPORT might be won by Twin or Abzan or Affinity. Then again, it could be taken down by this monster! GerryT highlights another sweet one in today’s Daily Digest!

Video: Ojutai Abzan In Standard!

The Dragons archetypes just keep shifting, and GerryT has another great build for #SCGPORT! See him maneuver it through this video series!

Daily Digest: A Little Bit Of Everything

The megamorph mechanic has given us a lot of synergies, and a combination of these threats has proven profitable for many players. What happens when we take this strategy in a different color direction for #SCGPORT this weekend?

Daily Digest: How To Kill Everything

Does anything feel stronger in Magic than removal? If everyone is playing creatures, shouldn’t you just kill them all? GerryT investigates such a strategy in the wake of #SCGPORT!