CategoryMagic The Gathering

Modern’s Best Spirits Deck

Green or no green? Collected Company or Aether Vial? Todd Stevens makes his pick for SCG Dallas and serves up a sideboarding guide!

Surprise Decks!

Join Jeremy Noell, Justin Parnell, Stephen Green, and Jonathan Suarez for a journey into the random! Let’s see who ends up with what…and who conquers all!

GerryT’s 10 Things: The New Nonsense

Finally, someone has the guts to bring Orcish Lumberjack to glory again. We have all that and more with decks and commentary from one of the best minds in the game before SCG Dallas!

Daily Digest: Esper Goryo’s Vengeance

Ross Merriam highlights the best from a strategy that could breakout at SCG Dallas! It’s only a matter of time before someone finds the right Modern deck for this spell!

How To Tell When Your Idea Is Too Cute

Lots of brewers get lost in the wrong details, and Sam Black empathizes! One of the most prolific deckbuilders around explains how to tell when your deck idea needs to be dropped for its own good!

The Most Detailed Humans Guide Yet

Todd has a few choice words for Cedric Phillips about The Bugler, but he’s got a lot more for you! Get your SCG Dallas plans ready to go, as Todd helps push you to victory this weekend!

B/R Vengevine VS Humans

Get a big time test for your Humans archetype as it takes it on the newest big archetype in Modern! Todd Stevens and Brad Nelson battle the SCG Dallas meta here!

The Mono-Green Aggro Primer

Pro Tour Champion Wyatt Darby is ready to pounce on the shrinking metagame share of Bant Nexus! Green aggro is still a viable Standard strategy at SCG Dallas…if you know how to pilot it!

Modern And Legacy Death’s Shadow Updates!

If you count both formats, that’s a lot of SCG Dallas players interested in Death’s Shadow decks! So let’s get the newest decklists from Death Shadow’s biggest fan: Ben Friedman!

Aminatou? Don’t Mind If I Do!

Bennie put out another poll this week, and you’ve spoken! This week, he makes a build with one of the faces of Commander 2018!

Your Playstyle Weapons In The Fight Against Cryptic Command

You always feel dead when they stick a threat with four mana up, but you don’t have to anymore! Learn the tricks of the trade in gaining percentage points against Modern’s scariest blue instant before SCG Dallas!

Opt Is Better Than Serum Visions

Conventional wisdom only gets you so far in Magic! Ross Merriam is slaying sacred cows to explain why Modern’s best cantrip has changed! Which would you rather play at SCG Dallas?

7 Lies You Believe About Modern

Is there truly a top tier in Modern now? Was there ever? Do tournaments have metagames unto themselves? Ari Lax is cutting through the fabrications and simplifications to get to The Truth!

Stop Trusting Top 8s

For decades, players have summed up metagames just using the single elim decks. Why? Isn’t the distinction a bit arbitrary? Bryan explains what you’re missing here on the way to SCG Dallas!

Buying Standard Before The Rotation

The biggest money shakeup in the Magic market every year is fast approaching! Tons of powerful spells are leaving, making room for excellent buy-ins on future stars! What does Chas recommend embracing…and avoiding?