What We Learned About Ixalan Standard
Ari Lax saw the signs of SCG Dallas’s dominant decks in Magic Online results last week! Get his insights into the cards that mattered and where the metagame goes from here!
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Admiring Admiral Beckett Brass And The Crew
After stomping around with Dinosaurs, Bennie Smith turns his attention to Ixalan’s other new major tribe: Pirates! And after he’s done explaining his Admiral Beckett Brass build, you’ll be joining her crew in no time flat!
Financial Reactions To The New Standard Format
Week 1 results aren’t the last word on how a metagame will shape up, but they provide vital data! Chas Andres reads the proverbial tea leaves and talks this week’s trends!
American Tropes: If The USA Were Made A Magic Setting
Wizards of the Coast frequently takes parts of non-U.S. cultures for use in Magic’s settings. But what if the shoe were on the other foot? As conspiracy theorists battle robber barons, JDB uses his nation’s past to explore worldbuilding’s potential pitfalls.
Video Daily Digest: C-C-C-Combo Maker!
What’s better than a combo deck? A two-combo deck! When Polymorphing into Emrakul, the Aeons Torn is your backup plan, you know you have something special. Ross Merriam explains all!
Popeye Stompy & SCG Tour Dallas Open Results
A primer for the new Popeye Stompy Legacy deck & Results from the first weekend with Ixalan!
Ixalan Mini-Masters VS: Game 1!
Back by popular demand, it’s Mini-Masters VS! Watch Todd Anderson and Brad Nelson play with packs of the latest set and see who draws first blood on Ixalan!
New Modern Decks And The Ixalan Limited Facts That Matter
Tom “The Boss” Ross wasn’t able to see the SCG Dallas results before his deadline, so today he talks Ixalan Limited before highlighting a variety of Modern brews!
The Boss VS. Todd: U/G Merfolk VS. Sultai Tower
Tom “The Boss” Ross pilots U/G Merfolk against Todd Anderson and Sultai Tower in a battle of the new Standard on VS!
Information Overload For SCG Dallas
Brennan DeCandio has joined Standard League after Standard League on Magic Online, hoping to find the perfect Standard deck for SCG Dallas! And while he doesn’t have all the answers just yet, he’s happy to share what he’s learned so far!
Prerelease Insights
Chris Lansdell’s Prerelease was a good time, but it was also a research project! Get his insights into the tribes that worked, the tribes that didn’t, and where brewers might go once Ixalan finally hits store shelves!
Taking Another Swipe At Ixalan
Enjoy more swiping and snarking as Emma Handy and Shaun McLaren browse eight of Ixalan’s hottest singles!
The Standard Decks Of SCG Dallas
Gerry Thompson highlights the three archetypes he expects to dominate the SCG Dallas metagame and the fourth that could surprise them all.
The Green Cards Of Ixalan
Get Patrick Chapin’s ideas on Ixalan’s green cards, just in time for SCG Dallas!
Video Daily Digest: Devoted To Green, But Playing Three Other Colors
Now with video! Devotion to a color doesn’t mean a deck has to stick to that hue. Ross Merriam highlights a confounding Vizier of Remedies combo deck in a Green Devotion shell that plays two other colors besides! When Utopia Sprawl and Oath of Nissa collide, anything is possible…