The Devil Is In The Details
Legacy is an incredibly complicated format to play, but some of the most critical decisions we have to make are almost invisible if we don’t know to look for them – and know to remain vigilant across a multi-round event.
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Countdown To GP London – 8 Days Out! – Infinite Challenge Badges
Grand Prix London is more than the main event. Learn more about the Infinite Challenge badges that let you have side event fun for a day or all weekend long!
Daily Digest: How To Beat Mono-Red And U/R Thopters
It’s time to start beating back the Mono-Red and U/R Thopters aggro metagame from #PTOrigins, and today’s brew looks like it has what it takes – all while beating down pretty handily itself!
Team And Individual Reflections From Pro Tour Magic Origins
While Ross Merriam might have hoped for better results at #PTOrigins, he looks back to reflect on what inputs at the team level resulted in the output of the finishes he and his teammates attained at the event.
On The Outside Looking In
How quickly just a week changes things. Jim Davis came to #SCGRegionals expecting a continuation of the #SCGRICH metagame only to find a new breed of aggressive decks stormed out of #PTOrigins to completely re-define the Standard format!
Daily Digest: The Phoenix
Gurmag Angler has been a breakout card in older formats like Modern and Legacy, but it doesn’ get a lot of play in Standard. Today’s deck from #PTOrigins may be helping to change that, mixing mill synergies and Delve fatties to overpower a wide variety of opponents.
Countdown To GP London – 9 Days Out – London Attractions And Sightseeing
If you’re interested in coming to Grand Prix London, John Dale Beety has all the info you need to figure out how to get around and what you should go see while you’re visiting the city!
A Brewer’s Look At Pro Tour Magic Origins
While #PTOrigins was all about red aggro and the breakout performance of U/R Thopters, there are some intriguing other decks to be found on the margins – and Chris Landsell pores over the top Standard decks from this weekend in search of brewers’ gold.
Rallying At Regionals
Chasing new information and decklist tech over video streams can be haphazard at best, and CVM had to “only” play last week’s best deck, Abzan Rally, because he couldn’t get a decklist for U/R Thopters in time for #SCGRegionals. Check out his thoughts on the shifting Standard metagame inside!
Countdown To GP London – 10 Days Out – Registration Rewards
Grand Prix London is going to be an amazing event, but you can tailor your experience to your needs even more if you want to. Nick Miller joins us to explain the Registration Rewards system we’ll be using for #GPLondon on August 15th-16th.
Daily Digest: POY Thopters
While this deck was not on anybody’s radar before #PTOrigins, U/R Ensoul Artifact was a top performer across multiple teams. Check it out and give it a try before your next Standard event – it’s much better than it looks on paper!
Stupid Freaking Red Deck At Regionals
With just Day One of #PTOrigins in the books, it was clear that red decks were doing something right that weekend – so Mark Nestico took his friendly neighborhood Chandra aficionado’s advice and ran Mono-Red Aggro for #SCGRegionals. This is his story.
Dear Azami: Death By Mana
With Cassidy away at GenCon last week, Sean McKeown makes a brief visit back to Commander-land in order to work on a reader’s Surrak Dragonclaw deck designed to win based off of its land base – sometimes in unconventional ways.
The Pro Tour Is Mine
Matt Higgs has been brewing around artifacts for some time now, and his focus kept getting pulled to the colorless cards in Magic Origins. Seeing U/R Thopters in the finals of #PTOrigins was really vindicating, and this is his takeaway from that event.
Mono-Red Is Busted, Stoneforge Mystic Sucks
It’s been an exciting weekend as we watched #PTOrigins and #SCGRegionals unfold, and Anthony Lowry reflects on the whole thing while looking forward to #SCGDC this weekend as well!