9th At GP Charlotte With Grixis: Home At Last!
After finishing 13-2 at Grand Prix Charlotte and only missing the Top Eight on tiebreakers, Patrick Chapin looks under the hood of the Grixis Control deck that brought him so close.
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Video: Modern Lantern Mill
With an unusual-looking artifact-based Prison deck making it to the top sixteen at Grand Prix Charlotte this weekend, Sam just had to take it out for a test drive and see how it works.
Welcome To The Magic Optimization Matrix
Meet MOM, your friendly computer-based happiness optimization matrix that knows you well enough to tell you not to abandon Jeskai in order to play Splinter Twin, and unfortunately knows you’re too stubborn to take good advice when it’s given to you, Shaun.
Standards Past, Standard Present And Standard’s Future
Ari takes a look at the things that truly matter in our present Standard format and how they evolved to this point in order to divine the likely future developments and get out ahead of them.
Where We Went Wrong: Dragons of Tarkir
Chas looks back at his predictions for Dragons of Tarkir now that the cards have had a chance to flourish in Standard and Modern. How well did his predictions hold up, and what lessons (if any) should be taken away from the experience?
Todd VS. The Boss: Temur Dragons VS. Chromanti-Flayer
After so many weeks of grinding for huge events, Todd and Tom Ross want to check out some of the quirkier and more fun sides of Standard in today’s Versus Video!
Brad VS. Todd: Abzan Midrange VS. Temur Delver
With Grand Prix Charlotte this weekend and some lessons learned about the Modern metagame from the Season Two Invitational, Brad and Todd battle to get ahead of shifts in the top decks!
The Season Two Invitational And The State Of Modern
Brian reflects on what could have been at the Season Two Invitational – and what Modern could be with just a little more careful maintenance of the format to remove the cards that enable long-standing degenerate issues in the format.
Bant Company For Charlotte
Brian has been hard at work building Collected Company decks around an honest green-and-white-creatures shell, and he presents his latest build just in time for Grand Prix Charlotte!
Video: Grixis Command In Modern
Kolaghan’s Command has been breaking out all across Modern, and Sam pushes it to its logical extreme in this Grixis Control shell.
Video: Infect In Modern
If big-mana decks like Tron and Amulet Bloom are going to continue dominating Modern, their weakness might be against decks like Infect that just don’t give them any time. Ari tests that theory in today’s video!
G/R Devotion At The Invitational
Brad stumbled upon G/R Devotion again in a roundabout way, then realized he’d found the perfect deck for the Season Two Invitational. Read all about it here, and what you need to do to bring it to your next Standard event!
Understanding Blue In Modern
While Grixis it the “hot” color combination for Twin decks these days, Todd has had a lot of success with Temur Twin – and he shares the format fundamentals that are behind both his build and his wins.
Open Series Spotlight: Merfolk
Merfolk was not a deck that was on anyone’s radar for the Season Two Invitational, but Brad Nelson takes the list piloted to a Top 4 finish by Richard Adams through its paces in this week’s Open Series Spotlight!
BBD VS. The Boss: Abzan Company VS. G/R Tron
BBD and The Boss, Tom Ross, bring two of Modern’s top archetypes to battle it out in preparation for Grand Prix Charlotte this weekend!