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AuthorMatt Higgs

Louisville native Matt Higgs has loved designing innovative, unique, and synergy-driven decks that put untapped cards in the limelight since embarking on his Magic career in 2006. He has experienced both fulfilling successes and crippling failures that come from building decks from scratch and putting them to test, and he's loved them both. A lifelong writer, Matt has contributed to SCG every single week since November 2012.

Peasants Of Tarkir

Much has been written about the big splashy dragon bombs of our new Tarkir home, but what about the little guys? Matt Higgs investigates some strong strategies we can deploy that are hard on our opponents and easy on our wallets!

Dragons In Standard!

Matt Higgs is all about some dragons! These dragons aren’t just for 100-card formats! See what Matt has planned for the flying monstrosities in Standard!

Getting Frosty In Standard

Matt Higgs is secretly a fan of the paradox of blue aggro! If you’re one of the special kind of blue mages that secretly love to attack, Matt has just the strategy for you leading up to Grand Prix Miami!

Grave Importance

Delve is all over the place in Standard, and while those strategies are perfectly good on their own, Matt Higgs has yet to see the graveyard reach its full potential! He’s ready to get his shovel and be covered in dirt for #SCGBALT’s $5,000 Standard IQ this weekend!

Own Your Renown

Don’t look now, but Matt Higgs is in his artifact workshop! Check out the budget brews he’s been tinkering with to see if you’d like to try one at #SCGLA this weekend!

Gimme A Break

Matt Higgs is breaking through! See the aggressive Standard builds he has primed to make a run at #SCGHOU glory this weekend!

Waste Management

Want to try and do something completely unexpected for StarCityGames Regionals? Matt presents the tag-team duo of Dark Deal and Waste Not in a few promising brews.

The A-Team

Matt Higgs arrives just in time to save the day! If your Standard tournament is in trouble and you have nowhere else to turn, who will help you? The A-Team, that’s who! Get out the cigars and the vehicle ramps before the $5,000 Standard Premier IQ at #SCGIndy!

Prerelease Lessons Learned

Matt Higgs had a great time at his Prerelease, and he learned a ton about the new Sealed format! See the results of his efforts and let him pass the wisdom onto you before your next Fate Reforged/Khans of Tarkir Limited event!

Siege The Day!

Matt Higgs isn’t waiting for Fate Reforged to be sold in order to get his new brew on! See him tackle infinite turns, updates on previous projects, and his take on the underrated Siege cycle!

The Heart Of The Cards

With Boss Sligh and other hyperaggressive red strategies beginning to fade away, it may be time to explore going under the bottom of Standard’s chunky grind decks again. Matt Higgs has a few ideas before you finish testing for #SCGPHILLY’s $5,000 Premier IQ!

The Best New Format In Magic

People often speculate about the next Commander. It turns out, it’s already gaining momentum around the world! See the format that combines Legacy and Commander, as well as a few lists Matt has put together!

Snow White Soldiers

Matt Higgs would like to wish everyone a white Christmas! He’s doing so by brewing you a mono-white deck that not only packs a Standard punch, but is also quite easy on the wallet!

New Heroes

Matt Higgs takes the success of W/U Heroic and examines what makes it work! Check out his piece-by-piece process for evolving the concept and see if his final result looks good for your next event!

Infinite Mana In Standard

There’s nothing better than when a brewer tinkers enough to find something so crazy that it just might work. Consider the work Matt Higgs has done to cheat his mana count. And the best part? It’s Standard legal and the #SCGINVI is this weekend!