CategoryMagic The Gathering

13 Reasons To Fear The 13/13

Why can’t Pro Tour Champion Shaun McLaren get any sleep lately? Simple: Emrakul is giving him nightmares! Here he lists the thirteen reasons that The Promised End may be keeping us all up in the future! Run for your lives!

Rebuilding Ezuri

Commander master Sheldon Menery had a swing at Ezuri during a recent League, but he’s interested in giving a new direction! See the cards he’s most excited to sleeve up to make some progress on the Claw of Progress!

Crossing The Streams: Using Other Games To Get Better At Magic

Sometimes playing more Magic makes you really good, but other times, it’s important to let your brain stretch and broaden its horizons. What has Todd Anderson been doing in his off weekends? He’s been gaming elsewhere, and he’s positive it’s making him a better Magic player!

#SCGDFW, The Modern Format, And Eldritch Moon

Though there are tons of options for Modern this weekend at #SCGDFW, CVM has his eye on one archetype above all others! Chris weighs in on the format, and of course, the latest spoiler on everyone’s mind: Emrakul, the Promised End!

Gerry VS. Majors: Abzan Company VS. Death’s Shadow

GerryT wants to gain arbitrarily large amounts of life with Abzan Company. Majors wants to put himself and his opponent under Death’s Shadow. Who will win this clash of styles ahead of the Modern Open at #SCGDFW?

Grim Nemesis Presents: The Nahiri EP (Lyrics Inside!)

Gather around the stereo. The latest work of the best metal act in all the Multiverse just hit iTunes and Spotify! John Dale Beety provides a little bit of insight and a lot of headbanging!

Standard Deck Experiments

Tom Ross has proven that although G/W Tokens is the biggest deck in the format, things are a lot more complicated than that. Michael Majors tweaks on a few builds that may be the difference in getting you to the top of #SCGDFW’s Standard Classic!

The Promised End Of Standard

A 13/13 with a bunch of abilities for thirteen mana? Pass. A 13/13 with a bunch of abilities for ten mana? Not really interesting. But what about seven mana? Six mana? Less? Patrick Chapin delves deep into the anomaly brought to us via Eldritch Moon.

Daily Digest: Forever Jund

Jund will absolutely positively never go away. Ross Merriam is convinced that Jund is the cockroach of Magic decks; it’ll be here forever long after other decks are gone, and it might be at the #SCGDFW Standard Classic!

I <3 Emrakul

A lot of players seem sort of down on the latest incarnation of Emrakul. Sam Black isn’t convinced they’re correct. Read about Sam’s ideas for building around the mother of all alien destruction!

My #SCGDFW Decks!

There’s an archetype that’s pretty much way ahead of everything else in Modern: It’s called whatever you want. Todd Stevens relishes this new era of Modern diversity, and he’s talking his favorite #SCGDFW archetypes here!

Lessons From The Sidelines: #SCGORL

Want to see what a Pro Tour Champion sees when they watch SCGLive coverage? Want to know how Ari Lax sees the #SCGDFW Standard Classic metagame? You’re one click away from being way ahead of the curve!

Video: W/R Humans In Standard

Gerry Thompson may finally be giving up. G/W Tokens may have given him back-to-back Top 8s, but W/R Humans gave Tom Ross back-to-back trophies! Let’s see what Gerry thinks of #SCGDFW’s Classic competition!

Dear Azami: The Warehouse Of Death

As far as creative themes and restrictions go, this week’s reader is the best Dear Azami has seen in some time! Creative problem-solving is one of the joys of Commander deck construction, and Dear Azami is here to help!

A Tale Of Two Tournaments

Mark Nestico got run over last weekend. There’s no better way of putting it. So why is he in such good…Spirits? Because he’s got a deck for the #SCGDFW Standard Classic that’s so well-positioned…it’s scary!