Strengths Versus Weaknesses In Deckbuilding
Ross Merriam provides an amazing analysis of how hate cards can hate you out as much as it does your opponents. Want an advantage at #SCGMKE? This is the place to start!
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.
Daily Digest: Mean Green
Sometimes you just have to cut the cuteness and beat people over the head. This Standard may have some interesting brews ready for #SCGStates, but it also has decks like this one! It features zero nonsense, zero cheeky card choices, and a whole lot of wins!
Ross VS. Majors: G/B Tokens VS. G/W Tokens
This Standard format is a token-lovers paradise! Which of these two “go wide” strategies is the best way to go for #SCGStates? Our expert investigators break out the clues to find out!
Daily Digest: Rally Your Company
Rally the Ancestors. Collected Company. Standard. Modern. These are dangerous times indeed! Ross Merriam gives you some new and exciting ways to go nuts with creatures at #SCGStates!
Daily Digest: How Enchanting
Need to play a classic green Enchantress shell to make an enchantment deck function? Nonsense! Ross Merriam has a more control-style deck that makes room for some of the most fun Magic you could possibly have at #SCGStates!
Daily Digest: We Are Harbinger
Nahiri could be a powerhouse planeswalker just waiting to break onto the #SCGStates scene. Ross Merriam takes a look at the latest list with everyone’s favorite lithomancer!
The Return To Normalcy
Ross Merriam got his groove back with a near top 8 and another great finish for his trouble last weekend. What was the difference? He breaks down his current decks for #SCGStates weekend!
Daily Digest: The Humanity
The good news is that as long as you’re Human, you’re probably doing fine on Innistrad these days. We belong to the tribe of the moment, and Ross Merriam wants to show off one of the lesser Human roads traveled on the way to #SCGStates!
Ross VS. Majors: Mono-White Humans VS. Bant Company
These decks ruled the roost last weekend in Baltimore. Was the result a fluke? Ross Merriam and Michael Majors are ready and willing for a rematch before #SCGINVI!
The Many Faces Of W/B Midrange
Ross Merriam learned a lot at #SCGBALT! Use the analysis of what appears to be a very powerful archetype to help you take on #SCGINVI this weekend!
Ross VS. Majors: W/B Midrange VS. G/B Ramp
Ramp decks. Powerful black and white cards. These are strategies you will face at #SCGBALT tomorrow. If you want to be ready, Ross Merriam and Michael Majors are ready to help!
Daily Digest: Yes, Erayo
Don’t adjust your monitors. The list reads accurately. Have we been so focused on using traditional shells for prowess that we missed the future of the strategy? Ross Merriam gives you yet another means to show your prowess at #SCGBALT’s Modern Classic!
Daily Digest: Is This Better Than Miracles?
I can’t believe it’s not Miracles! It looks like the Legacy powerhouse on the surface, but what dwells beneath is a powerful new contender for #SCGBALT Legacy Classic gold!
Daily Digest: Show Your Prowess
Ross Merriam is no stranger to storming on an opponent with a slew of spells. But what if we could do that with creatures instead? Ross shows the latest greatest way to show your prowess at #SCGBALT’s Modern Classic!
Daily Digest: No Combat Allowed
Is it foggy in here? Or is it just Ross Merriam’s latest look into the strange and wonderful decklists that make up the hidden rogue metagame beneath Modern? Just because you play in the #SCGBALT Modern Classic doesn’t mean you have to have attack steps while you do it!