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Thoughts On Origins, Scry Rules, And Mindset

This past week has been full of all sorts of new information, and Shaun takes a look at the new mulligan rule, the new set, and the meta-issues of being good at the game and keeping our community good for the game.

Red Decks

Magic Origins has a whole lot to offer everyone, but red mages in particular seem to have gotten a pretty sweet deal. Patrick looks at all of the different ways to use these new cards in Standard, to best judge their comparative worth.

Video: Abzan Aggro In Modern

Brian continues his quest to build a strong Modern deck around honest green creatures, and today’s video showcases an aggressive take on Abzan that really puts Siege Rhino to work as well as take advantage of the power of Wilt-Leaf Liege!

Todd VS. The Boss: Naya Ramp VS. Jeskai Tokens

In today’s Versus Video, Todd Anderson and Tom “The Boss” Ross get to work on Magic Origins Standard by testing out Jeskai Tokens against a new Naya Ramp build!

Todd VS. Brad: Bant Heroic VS. Jund Reanimator

It’s time to battle Standard with Magic Origins, and both Todd Anderson and Brad Nelson have updated their weapons of choice with the new set’s cards and are ready to face off!

Policy Changes And Magic Origins

With Magic Origins fully spoiled, Brian takes a look at the rest of the set’s cards that he finds interesting or compelling, and discusses recent policy changes announced over the past week.

Clusters And Building White Decks With Magic Origins

What if there were an easier way to think about deckbuilding, a way that helped keep your card choices in context and your thinking flexible? Sam shares how he thinks about cards when building decks and shares a few examples.

My Magic Origins Top Ten List

Brad is super excited about Magic Origins, and he’s here to share his top ten picks from the new set – as well as a few starter decklists!

Daily Financial Value Of Magic Origins – July 3rd

With the full set spoiler out, Ben wraps up his Daily Financial Value series with the last two rares a complete look at the set’s commons and uncommons that will be worth picking up in foil!

Video: Kiki-Company In Modern

Kiki-Jiki has been largely absent in Modern since the banning of Birthing Pod, but Collected Company may help revitalize that archetype in much the same way as it brought back the Melira-Pod deck now in Podless form.

Jace And Jeskai Tokens

Magic Origins is promising to have a huge impact in the upcoming Standard format, especially its plethora of Planeswalkers. Todd looks at some of his favorite cards from the set and examines how he thinks they will impact the format.

Unbinding The Telepath Within

Jace, Telepath Unbound is an intriguing planeswalker – his ultimate is either a do-nothing or a game-winner, and his -3 ability sounds like Snapcaster Mage’s but is very different. The Boss puts Jace through his paces in a variety of decks.

Daily Financial Value Of Magic Origins – July 2nd

On this next-to-last day before the full Magic Origins spoiler hits us, we have all sixteen mythics and all but two rares – Ben’s got the latest update inside as well as a breakdown of the expected value of Origins boxes!

BBD VS. The Boss: Abzan Company VS. Mono-White Heroic

With enough of Magic Origins spoiled to get a good feel for what the set might have to offer us in Standard, BBD and Tom “The Boss” Ross start testing out post-Origins Standard in today’s Versus Video!

Open Series Spotlight: Mono-Red Devotion

After facing off against him in Baltimore’s Standard Open, Brad wondered whether Dylan Hysen’s Mono-Red Devotion deck was the real deal or not and put it through its paces in this week’s Open Series Spotlight!