Ross Merriam worked on a deck for the Pro Tour that is surprisingly colorful! Is the mana in this format good enough to do some really ridiculous things? Can you play whatever card you want? Ross Merriam recounts his pushed mana and the event itself!
SCG Regionals has shown us a lot of just how great Modern is at the moment! You can play what you want! Just make sure it’s at least as fast as this deck! Which might be a challenge, after all…
The Magic Story Podcast takes over, Seiben talks Baral vs Chandra, and Commander action abounds!
A few seemingly small bans have made Modern a whole different animal it seems! Todd Stevens tries to make sense of the SCG Regionals Modern results!
Mardu Vehicles, seemingly left behind by the banning of Smuggler’s Copter, came roaring back at Pro Tour Aether Revolt! Jadine Klomparens explores how to beat it and puts her work into practice with two decklists!
When a doctor’s fever-dream proves all too real, he finds himself the prisoner of an adolescent pirate queen and her goggles-wearing monkey.
Jeskai Control carried Michael Majors to Day 2 of Pro Tour Aether Revolt, but a new metagame calls for a new approach! He presents his favored weapon for the upcoming Standard season and offers a sideboarding guide to take on the Big Three archetypes!
Ryan Saxe isn’t stopping at two picks in the first pack! Today he also explores a second-pack dilemma that illustrates how card values can change based on your deck’s needs!
There isn’t a player on the planet that hasn’t been in a discussion about right and wrong plays; however, Sam Black has a very important question: What if your “right” and my “right” are different? Can a play be both right and wrong? Mark my words: This is a must-read piece of Magic writing!
The Magic Online Championship shows it’s lineup, The Professor and Wedge hit Vegas, and a possible release time for Magic Digital Next?
It’s time to break Modern in half! Tom “The Boss” Ross is looking to prove that Infect still has what it takes after the banning of Gitaxian Probe, while Todd Anderson wants to exploit Sram, Senior Edificer in a Puresteel Paladin deck. Don’t blink or you’ll miss it!
A Pro Tour later and we’ve got a lot of data on Standard! More importantly than the “what” is the “why” and the “how”! PT Champion Ari Lax knows you’ve already seen the decks; now you need to actually understand them.
Cedric Phillips would love to give you a big breakdown of the top 8 Pro Tour decks, but frankly, there’s no need. Instead, he’s here to debate staying power! Is Mardu Vehicles a flash-in-the-pan deck? Or is it going to dominate other events as well? Cedric shares the facts!
Nothing shuffles up the Standard market quite like a Pro Tour! Chas Andres watched in earnest as cards went up, down, and all points in between! Which cards do you need to get rid of now? Which ones do you need to invest in?
Mardu may have been at the top of the mixed format event, but there were a lot of very strong showings that were obscured by Limited rounds! Chris Lansdell tweaks on a few here!
