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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.

Elves In New Standard

Matt Higgs brought a tribal-ish deck to Indy last weekend, but don’t believe for a second he wouldn’t alter it if given the chance! See what he thinks of the latest Standard format as we approach #SCGATL!

The Battle For Zendikar Prerelease!

Matt Higgs had an incredible time at his Prerelease last weekend! Read about his cash take, his impressions of the format, and what he thinks are the most important factors in dominating Sealed deck at Grand Prix Atlanta!

Zada, Hedron Grinder In Standard

Zada has been getting a ton of love in Commander circles, but what would a Standard Zada brew look like? SCG’s resident rogue Matt Higgs is up for the challenge!

Battle For Zendikar Preview: Guul Draz Overseer!

It’s Battle for Zendikar preview time! Matt Higgs shows you a new addition to a popular tribe that is capable of swinging games in your favor in a hurry! We hope you have your fetchlands ready!

The New Face Of Green

Green has had some pretty incredible enablers all season long, but #SCGMKE will be one of their last hurrahs! See the green strategies Matt Higgs is developing for when Courser and friends check out of Standard!

The Many Faces Of Molten Vortex

Matt Higgs remembers the days where Seismic Assault and a handful of lands guaranteed plenty of wins! Today he’s taking the same strategy through a number of paces before #SCGWOR this weekend!

The Great Aurora

Matt Higgs loves to take all sorts of weird cards and staple them together, and today’s weirdness is a melding of the minds between two very different things: The Great Aurora and… Dreadwaters?

Tarmowolf

Timberpack Wolf isn’t enough by itself to get excited about in Constructed – usually it just thrills a Limited mage. But what can be accomplished when we start building around multiple cycles of the Magic Origins “Card Names Matter” creatures?

Helm Of The Gods

Matt Higgs loves Helm of the Gods, but he’s struggling to find the right home for it. Read those struggles inside and find out if he gets there finally in the end or if it’s going to be an even longer trip than he’d realized to please the gods of Theros.

Stealing A Game Day

Fun decks are what Game Day is all about, but it doesn’t hurt if you can do some serious winning while you’re having your fun. Matt Higgs unveils his latest creation, and got the Top Eight alongside all his fun.

The Pro Tour Is Mine

Matt Higgs has been brewing around artifacts for some time now, and his focus kept getting pulled to the colorless cards in Magic Origins. Seeing U/R Thopters in the finals of #PTOrigins was really vindicating, and this is his takeaway from that event.

So Orzhov It Hurts

While more than a few Magic Origins cards have earned their time in the spotlight at this point, Matt Higgs thinks there’s room for one more: can Tainted Remedy take on the Standard format? Matt is determined to find out!

Mid-Game Mulligans

Matt Higgs loves quirky, off-the-wall decks, and today he further explores his fascination with Magic Origins most compellingly powerful card, Day’s Undoing.

Fire Isn’t Always Red

Matt Higgs breaks down his Magic Origins prerelease, including multiple different builds he tried over the course of his event, as well as takes a quick peek at the future of Standard with a Heroic Red deck for #SCGCHI!

Illuminati Robots

Matt Higgs always has an angle, and for Magic Origins right now it’s the advantages inherent to the unsung color of Magic, artifacts. He has not one but two completely-colorless decks to try for Standard, check them out!