The rights and wrongs of unbans and bans are a lot more deep than just looking at decklists or declaring you want that card that always beats you to get axed. It requires critical thinking and a brilliant Magic mind. Patrick Chapin takes you down the rabbit hole of creating and curating Magic formats in 2017!
#GPLouisville is on its way, and Legacy fans from all over the world will be there! Ross Merriam has the jump on a great rogue strategy if you’re still shopping for your archetype!
Sure, you could wait for Aether Revolt to change the metagame, but what about Players’ Champion Joe Lossett crushing with an Energy-based deck? Adrian excitedly studies a new dimension in Standard!
Hold on tight, because this one is a little bit weird. If you’ve never seen the epic Epic mechanic in action (or a deck that does nothing else), you’re in for a special treat this week!
Bennie Smith still has plenty of ideas for all the new Commander 2016 legends, even the ones that are already forgotten! He’s also breaking out his Standard rogue deck that is crushing his local meta! Check it out!
GerryT has no sacred cows, but he’s starting to have more and more Sacred Foundries! The #SCGPC may just be the beginning of Gerry’s new love of all things fiery! Join him as he recaps his deck choices for the event and why he’s so excited to Lightning Bolt the universe in 2017!
Imagine how awesome life would be if Santa was a Dragon. Ross Merriam is a child at heart, so he’s letting his creativity run wild. But he has a Modern decklist too. Something for everyone!
Ryan Saxe is your go-to resource for Limited formats and the navigation you need to crush them! If you want to be on your Draft game, let Ryan be your mentor!
It’s another Titans of Standard throwdown! Representing yesteryear, Todd Anderson has brought back Mono-Blue Devotion, while Brad Nelson wields the power of W/U Flash! Which of these tricky tempo decks will triumph in the test? There’s only one way to find out!
75×3, baby. Three decks for three formats and Player of the Year Tom “The Boss” Ross to tell you how it felt. He had some strange tech, he was outside his usual fare, but he loved every second of it. And he wants to tell you how sweet it feels to have 225 cards sleeved up and ready to roll!
Emma Handy picks up right where she left off! For the final entry in her chronicle as a rookie grinder in 2016, read her road diary and the lessons that came with the adventure!
Brewers are good friends with their bulk binders by nature, but this is the time of year when some of those cards grow wings and soar into big Standard roles! Which cards do you see getting better in 2017?
Patrick Chapin has spent a lot of time with various incarnations of Magic’s most diabolical machinist, and he has two different versions of him to work with for new Standard! If you want brews and analysis, you know that The Innovator is the place to go!
You know, Ross could use a mundane pack this week, but since it’s almost Christmas, it stands to reason he should use a good one! And this is, in fact, a good one…
The No-Banned-List Modern experiment continues! Today, Ross Merriam pilots one of the original broken decks of Pro Tour Philadelphia, Blazing Shoal, against Michael Majors’s souped-up Miracles build! Who’ll take down this battle of brokenness?
