How I’m Getting Started With Core Set 2020 Standard
How is Standard ace Brad Nelson taking aim at the Core Set 2020 metagame? Get his key insights and latest lists as you set about collecting cards ahead of SCG Worcester!

How is Standard ace Brad Nelson taking aim at the Core Set 2020 metagame? Get his key insights and latest lists as you set about collecting cards ahead of SCG Worcester!
Chas Andres concludes his Core Set 2020 Financial Set Review! What should you buy and hold? And how should players react to potential bannings on Monday? Plus, This Week’s Trends!
You want Standard decks with the new set? GerryT has Standard decks with the new set. More than a dozen of them. Fourteen, to be precise. Let the preparation for SCG Worcester begin!
With the arrival of Core Set 2020, Standard is the biggest it will be before rotation. Ross Merriam sees this as a signal to try synergy-based decks, and he has three key cards to look at for SCG Worcester!
Have we been looking at the wrong Leyline in Core Set 2020? Sam Black sees surprising potential in Leyline of Abundance, and he’s here to show you how to exploit it in Standard and Modern!
Tom Ross made Top 8 at Grand Prix Dallas-Fort Worth with Bridgevine despite never playing a game with the deck beforehand! Did he plan it all along while working on Modern Horizons? And speaking of Top 8s, he has one of all the ban-worthy cards in Bridgevine!
Bryan Gottlieb called Nexus of Fate as a format-defining card the last time core set predictions rolled around. Why does he see potential in Cavalier of Thorns, and where does he think its first home will be?
“The Innovator” isn’t having any of the ban-it-now nonsense over Bridgevine in Modern! He’s seeing a weird and awesome metagame once you get past the mandatory playsets of Rest in Peace and Leyline of the Void. Let’s go exploring!
Magic’s mulligan rules are officially switching over to the London mulligan! Ari Lax has your essential guide to navigating the change as it rolls out on Magic Arena and Magic Online!
Core Set 2020 has turned out to be a strange release without a chase mythic rare. What are the finance implications? Chas Andres has those and much more, plus This Week’s Trends!
A topdeck sealed Brad Nelson’s fate at Mythic Championship III, but it was only a bittersweet end to an amazing weekend! Relive the moments from three days that only could’ve happened in Vegas!
Three-mana planeswalkers tend to come in two varieties: useless in Standard, and broken. Which will Mu Yanling, Sky Dancer be? Kevin Jones compares it to recent examples and reaches a surprising conclusion!
Tom Ross is excited to try some new tribes in Standard with their support in Core Set 2020! In Orzhov colors, he tries out Knights first. Then he sees the Angels, and he’ll lead them to your door…
A stopped clock is right at least twice a day, and after a year of predicting Teshar, Ancestor’s Apostle would break Standard it may finally be Bryan Gottlieb’s day to prove he was right. With more decklists than you can shake a stick at, surely one of them’s gotta work, right?
GerryT got a nickname for himself as “Mardu Guy,” and he’s been playing his signature Mardu Pyromancer deck in Modern! Get his updates for SCG Pittsburgh…and see what surprising card got the axe!