Daily Digest: Pact Of The Kitten
We knew someone was going to do this. That someone turned out to be Jesse Savage! If you want something wild to run around #SCGRegionals with, here it is!
AuthorRoss Merriam
Ross Merriam has been a fixture on the SCG Tour since 2012 and is one of its most decorated players with over twenty top 8s. He currently serves as the beardliest member of Team BCW and a content creator for StarCityGames.com, focusing on the Modern format as well as Magic fundamentals and theory designed to help you elevate your game.
Ross VS. Todd: B/W Angel Control VS. Bant Company
Todd Anderson and Ross Merriam have spent a lot of time on the VS Series, but never one on one! And they are making it count! These two decks will help define the Pro Tour and the #SCGRegionals metagame this weekend, and you need to be ready!
Daily Digest: Stranger Things
With #SCGNY and #SCGINVI coming up, it’s a great time to check the pulse of Modern! Ross Merriam is doing just that with an increasingly dangerous archetype complete with some wonderfully odd card choices!
Daily Digest: May The Force Be With You
This Standard is a lot wider than the numbers suggest. Looking for something fresh and proven for #SCGRegionals? Ross Merriam thinks this could be your ticket to victory…if the stars align.
Is This The Best We Can Do?
Ross Merriam brought Bant Company to Baltimore and had a strong 15th place showing! The plot twist? He wasn’t impressed at all! Find out why Ross thinks this deck is merely a stubborn stepping stone on the way to a much greater Standard format! Which deck are you taking to #SCGRegionals this weekend?
Daily Digest: I Will Crush You!
“I must break you.” What’s that? There aren’t any cards in the decklist with “Break” in the name? Ah well. This #SCGBALT Top 8 deck, sure to appear at an #SCGRegionals near you, will Crush you instead…
Daily Digest: He Was A Dragon Man
There’s a wide consensus that a red-based aggro deck could make a heck of a #SCGBALT contender if someone could find one. Luckily, it may have finally happened! Ross Merriam has the story!
Ross VS. Majors: U/W Spirits VS. Bant Humans
This life or the afterlife? Ross Merriam has taken the U/W Spirits’ side, while Michael Majors has chosen Bant Humans! Who will win this Standard clash ahead of #SCGBALT?
Daily Digest: New Delirium
Todd Stevens wasn’t the only one to find success with a Delirium deck on the first weekend of Eldritch Moon Standard! Ross Merriam highlights an IQ winner with a different yet sleek take on the newly strengthened strategy ahead of #SCGBALT!
Daily Digest: Make Modern Rumpf Again
Ross Merriam is proud to take back the format we’ve lost! He’s firing everyone that disagrees with him, he’s looking for #SCGBALT Classic solutions, and he’s got a strategy that will trump anything your opponents have! So come over to the good side of the fight and rhetoric something something rhetoric!
Daily Digest: Did It Hurt When You Fell From Heaven?
The Eldrazi are screwing up the Angels of Innistrad something fierce, but fortunately Angels are still pretty awesome! Awesome enough to put a control deck at the forefront of #SCGBALT contenders!
A Dream Deferred
Ross Merriam has plenty to say about Eldritch Moon’s Standard debut and the hype surrounding #SCGBALT weekend! But first he has to address coming up short during a much celebrated lifelong dream this past week.
Daily Digest: Did You Expect Anything Less?
Sun rises, sun sets, and Ali Aintrazi plays whatever he wants! Ross Merriam studies the most off the radar deck in the room, a build so brilliant it came within a match of taking down an SCG Tour® trophy at #SCGCOL!
Daily Digest: This. Is. Jeopardy.
Daily Digest. Daily Double. Ross Merriam is good at all of them! Read about how you can put your opponents in Jeopardy at the #SCGCOL Modern Classic!
Ross VS. Majors: U/R Control VS. Sultai Midrange
Are you a little blue or really blue? Ross Merriam goes heavy on the color with U/R Control, while Majors uses the slightest splash of it for Prized Amalgam in an otherwise B/G deck. Check out this matchup ahead of the #SCGCOL Standard Open!