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Winning #SCGCIN

We may be in the heart of winter, but that didn’t stop the Summer Blooms in Bobby’s deck from defeating one and all! See his impressions of the deck and his thoughts on #SCGCHAR, potential bans, and the ways people misplay when taking on this beast!

Daily Digest: Old School Red

Atarka Red has been in the format since day one, but what happened to good old-fashioned burn spells and little monsters? GerryT rediscovered what it means to paint the town red before #SCGCHAR’s Standard Classic!

Standard Greatly Distorted, Modern In The Thought-Knot

#SCGPC Champion Jim Davis is confident that the Eldrazi in Oath of the Gatewatch will not only radically change Standard, but Modern as well! See the cards he’s most assured will set the course for the formats going forward!

Demonic Jeskai And Avoiding Draws

Ross Merriam had a respectable finish at the Standard Classic last weekend, but few know just how crazy the story behind his deck was! Ross gives you the details and teaches you some tricks to avoiding draws at the #SCGCHAR Standard Classic!

Playing (And Playing Against) Amulet Bloom

CVM has been around the block a time or two with Azusa and company. He was as thrilled as anyone to see it take down the Open last weekend. But can it repeat at #SCGCHAR? Chris explains both sides of the ban debate and both sides of the matchup here!

Daily Digest: How To Port Jeskai Black To Modern

Magic has had a lot of archetypes move through formats over the years. Jeskai Black might not be a direct port, but GerryT thinks you could do a lot worse than bringing its Modern cousin to #SCGCHAR!

Rallying At #SCGCIN’s Standard Classic

While the #SCGCIN Open was stealing all the headlines, Michael Majors was busy putting another trophy on his crowded mantle! Read about his journey through the Sunday field and decide if Four-Color Rally is the way to go for #SCGCHAR’s Standard Classic!

Commander 2015 League Play-By-Play!

How balanced are the Commander 2015 decks right out of the box? How ridiculous is Blade of Selves? How big can Sheldon make his Experiment One? The answers to these questions and more are in Sheldon’s latest play-by-play!

Daily Digest: Going Commando

Not all control decks are brewed with the same cards and goals in mind, and this one is off the beaten path and then some! See GerryT’s latest find before you sleeve up for #SCGCHAR!

Dear Azami: Why Did It Have To Be Snakes?

There’s just one more bullet in the Commander 2015 chamber! This week, it’s Jess’s turn to scour the snake pits and cobra traps to turn Kaseto into the Snake lord you deserve!

Pondering Oath Of Nissa

As we all know by now, Oath of Nissa is basically Ponder because Magic is simple, easy, and we’re all masters at it. Mark Nestico disagrees as it turns out, and he wants to talk a bit about useless comparisons as they apply to evaluating new cards.

New Oath Of The Gatewatch Brews!

Tired of seeing the same cards being uplifted to superstar status? Matt Higgs is operating on a different frequency! He has planeswalkers, creature-lands, and a host of other standouts ready for the release of Oath of the Gatewatch!

Five-Color Planeswalkers!

Is there anything more fun than having most of the planeswalkers on the planet in your Commander deck? Abe shows off the latest revisions to his five-color masterpiece, complete with Oath of the Gatewatch additions!

The Journey That Was 2015

Pro Tour veteran Adrian Sullivan has played Magic over two decades, and 2015 was a huge year for him. Today, he reflects on his incredible performances last year, Patrick Sullivan’s reduced SCGLive role, and the many friends the game has made him.

The SCG Tour®, Website Outages, And Last Chance Sale Updates!

Star City Games General Manager Ben Bleiweiss has an important update on the service outages from this past weekend, The SCG Tour®, and the Last Chance Holiday Sale!