With this much shifting around in the Standard format, Sam Black feels lost – when will the dynamic changes stop and the format settle into one place? While he waits, he has a few ideas for what the next gyration might look like in order to get out ahead of it.
As the Standard metagame continues to shift and Abzan Aggro has taken the forefront, is it control’s time to reassert itself in the next wave of the metagame cycle? BBD and Brad battle head to head in order to figure out which control deck might be king: Abzan, or Esper Dragons?
While it’s hard to be sure, it looks like Standard may start cycling back through the previous iterations of its metagame rather than continuing to break out in new directions… so GerryT shares his look at the format’s top decks to prepare for your next event!
Trying to figure out if you are still progressing or if you have hit a personal plateau can be hard, especially if you are still achieving successes in the meantime. With that in mind, Pro Tour Champion Ari Lax looks at his recent events to see where he’s at.
Fourth walls are made to be broken, and Pro Tour Champion Shaun McLaren invites you into his mind as he prepares for the World Championships this weekend. Mind your feet, there’s plenty to trip on in here!
With Martin Juza’s G/R Dragons deck being the only non-white deck in the Grand Prix London Top Eight, GerryT updates it and puts it through its paces as he tries to figure out what’s next for the Standard format.
With the Standard Open returning to Charlotte this weekend, we’re also returning to the Modern format which has been shifting wildly during this PPTQ season. Todd and The Boss, Tom Ross, explore some of Modern’s more unusual decks in today’s Versus Video.
With Grand Prix London in the books, Patrick Chapin examines the Standard metagame and asks the question “so what’s next?” as players prepare for Worlds and the Season Three Invitational. Will Standard continue its wildly-shifting metagame trends, or have we seen everything at this point?
While it may sound as if we are in the summer doldrums as we await Battle for Zendikar spoilers, now is actually the perfect time to pick up Khans Block and Magic Origins staples while the price is right!
Join Todd Anderson and Brad Nelson as they prepare for Grand Prix London in today’s Versus Video, which pits two of the most potent archetypes from #PTOrigins – Mono-Red Aggro and G/R Devotion – against each other to prepare for their trip across the pond.
How quickly the Standard format has shifted these past four weeks! Follow along as The Dragonmaster, Brian Kibler, examines the metagame cycle and how we might use it in order to predict the next shift and ride it.
Recent shifts in the metagame have favored recursive morph creatures and powerful death triggers, and if you want to stop their shenanigans you’re going to have to exile them from the game entirely.
Sam Black takes an Abzan deck featuring new Magic Origins option Gather the Pack through a four-round Standard event!
“So close, and yet so far.” No one really likes coming in ninth place at a major tournament, but Brian Braun-Duin looks straight on at the reasons he found himself at the Edge of the Top Eight at #SCGDC.
With a Standard format that has shifted wildly over the course of the past month, Brad Nelson reflects on where we’ve been in order to predict where the metagame is going next. Grand Prix London is calling his name, if only he picks the right deck for the event…
