Fine Tuning
Is there a more underrated competitive Magic skill than deck tuning? Sam Black shows you his process for card selection, data mining, and getting to know a deck inside out!
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Decision-Making In Toronto
Ari Lax doesn’t just understand formats well, he’s also incredible at explaining them to the rest of us. Here, he explains his favorite deck in Standard at the moment and what makes it so good!
Invitation Only
Chris Lansdell was recently invited to an invitational event with an insane format layout! See the crazy metagame, his deck choices, and of course, the rundown of how his tournament day went!
Single Card Primer: Counterbalance
Drew Levin shows you how to play, build around, and play against one of the most powerful enchantments of all-time! Learn what it means to play with Counterbalance, and give Drew your requests for more cards you’d like to see in this series!
Daily Digest: Brad Nelson Would Be Proud
It wasn’t that many years ago that Brad Nelson was putting craters in his opponents by stomping them into oblivion. Turns out, Modern is another great format for that! See the latest in Craterhoof technology courtesy of GerryT!
We’re All Jon Snow
Mark Nestico was sure, as many of us were, that the big three decks in Standard were all that really mattered now. Then we have Mono-Green Aggro popping up. The crazy blue Devotion deck. It appears this Standard isn’t as solved as we thought. It’s possible we, like Mark, know absolutely nothing.
Morphs, Manifest, and Mastery
Matt Higgs, ever the incorrigible brewer, refuses to let Mastery of the Unseen go forgotten. The card was responsible for a huge swath of strong tournament finishes not long ago, and today, Matt looks for more ways to manifest wins in Standard!
A More Controlling Abzan Megamorph
Shaun McLaren is taking the now ubiquitous Raptor-Protector duo into a more controlling Abzan deck! See his advice on playing what he feels is the most promising new strategy in the format!
Fumiko Fun!
The trend that red is the worst color for Commander is slowly reversing direction as people discover sweet mono-red legends from the past! This week, Abe indulges one of the most underrated red commanders around!
Play All The Dragons!
Inspired by his recent Invitational Qualifier victory, Anthony Lowry is going to work on getting as many Dragons into one deck as possible! See how many ways there are in Standard to torch your opponents!
Video: G/W Megamorph In Standard!
The patron saint of all things green and white in Magic is two-time Pro Tour Champion Brian Kibler, and today, he takes you on a ride with the latest Collected Company Standard strategy!
Modern Masters 2015 Preview Card: Primeval Titan!
You couldn’t ask for a better voice to give us a big green monster preview than Brian Kibler! Let’s welcome The Dragonmaster as he talks about one of the cards that gave him his second Pro Tour victory!
Five Decks. Five Hands.
Before you make any other decision in a game of Magic, you have to make that first one: Do you keep? Carsten Kotter takes us through a slew of Legacy decision points, all of them happening before the first land or spell is cast! Do you agree with each keep/mulligan decision? Why or why not?
Let’s Get Ready For Modern Masters 2015
Chas’ inbox and social media feeds have been blowing up with folks asking about what they should do about Modern Masters 2015. Chas has answers about print runs, about price math, and about the reprints here!
Daily Digest: Blue CoCo
The most famous deck of the weekend gets its proper Daily Digest due today! GerryT gives a hat tip to the innovative deck that nearly took home the prize at the Open Series in Portland!