CategoryMagic The Gathering

My Exotic Orchard: A Story Of Perspective

What does Magic success look like when you look back on it? What are the dangers of achieving too much too soon? In this wonderfully honest piece, Brad Nelson drops his guard and invites you to share in his insecurities as he traversed the bumpy landscape of professional Magic.

Proper Sequencing

Want to know how great players steal wins where most players would get losses? A lot of it comes down to small advantages in sequencing their plays! And Emma Handy is ready to demonstrate this critical Magic concept for you before #SCGNY!

Gerry VS. Todd: Jeskai Control VS. Dredge

GerryT playing Jeskai Control in Modern? No surprise there. But Todd Anderson’s put up the Temur Box in favor of…Dredge?! Who’ll win this clash between a classic control deck and a Classic-winning combo build ahead of the #SCGNY Modern Open?

A Wharf Class Athlete

Whether it’s the Olympics or Magic, Matt Higgs loves the underdog! He’s taking one of the sleeper rares of Eldritch Moon and brewing away for #SCGNY’s Standard Classic!

The Deck That Took Me To The World Championship

A Player of the Year title wasn’t enough for Mike Sigrist’s stellar Pro Tour legacy. Now, he’s got his eyes on the biggest trophy in the business! Read about how to pilot the newest powerful Standard deck in the metagame as you get ready for the #SCGNY Modern Classic!

Daily Digest: The Modern Cockroach

Someday when Emrakul has consumed all Multiverse life and every archetype and card is reduced to dusty smoldering nothing, this Modern deck will still be alive. At #SCGNY, it may be the deck stepping on you!

An Exclusive Interview With Gisa And Geralf!

Sheldon Menery sits down with the hottest brother-sister pairing on the Commander circuit! What do these two Innistrad all-stars do when they’re not raising the dead?

Is It Time For Dredge To Win?

Hang out in the Pro Tour afterglow all you want; Todd Anderson is ready for #SCGNY Modern weekend! Believe it or not, the Temur master is thinking of trading in his tried and true Delvers for a lot of unfair replacement effects! Golgari Grave-Troll is unbanned, right? Let’s start abusing it!

Best Pro Tour Ever?

Chris Lansdell isn’t done with brewing just because a great Pro Tour has concluded! #SCGNY’s Standard Classic could be the site of even more Standard innovation if you follow Chris’s latest!

Video: Temur Emerge In Standard!

GerryT takes the deck that came within a hair of conquering the Pro Tour into this new video! Is this the deck to beat at #SCGNY’s Standard Classic on Sunday?

Daily Digest: Merging Emerge

We’ve established that Emerge decks are for real, but now everyone is working to find the very best one! Ross Merriam takes a look at the latest incarnation of one of #SCGNY’s top Classic contenders!

Missing In Sydney, Australia

Sam Black rarely puts himself out there with the safest deck choice, and Pro Tour Eldritch Moon was no different. Here he provides the logic that led to his metagame call, his fascinating rogue brew, and what he anticipates the future holds for the archetype!

Banting At The Pro Tour

Pro Tour Champion Shaun McLaren almost got himself another Pro Tour top 8! How did he do it? By being the bad guy! See the improvements Shaun made to everyone’s favorite hated Standard archetype before you hit #SCGNY’s Classic!

The Most Underrated Decks In Modern

SCG Tour ®star Todd Stevens cannot contain his excitement about #SCGNY and a return to Modern! See the decks he feels need more attention going into this weekend!

Fact Or Fiction: The Great Pro Tour Debate!

It’s the series you can’t get enough of! We’ve separated all of the Pro Tour tech, the top #SCGNY Modern contenders, and a lot of debatable statements into two piles; it’s up to Tom “The Boss” Ross and Ross Merriam to sort them out!