Magic Origins is full of intriguing cards that flesh out both the major and the minor themes of the last few years of expansions, and Jim explores how it seems to have just a little bit of something for everyone.
The key to figuring out any new format is establishing a baseline, and the best way to do that is to build the format’s gauntlet. Ross does exactly that for Magic Origins Standard so you can run your decks through their paces!
Ask A Judge returns with the answer to all of your Magic Origins-related questions just in time for this weekend’s prerelease. Catch up on anything you might need to know here!
Punishing Fire is a great tool in Legacy for beating up on creature decks, and so is the Counterbalance / Terminus shell powered up by Sensei’s Divining Top. What if we put all of these things together?
Evolutionary Leap is an exciting Magic card, and today Michael Majors explores its full potential in a variety of shells. From Rally the Ancestors to Deathmist Raptor and from Siege Rhino to Purphoros, Michael tries them all to find Standard’s next evolution!
It’s time to get down and dirty in today’s four-player Commander Versus video as we pit all sorts of crazy shenanigans against each other. If you’re a fan of the Commander format, check it out!
CVM is an early fan of the new Elves from Magic Origins, and he shares his initial thoughts on that archetype and how to build it after a week’s worth of experience now that the full spoiler is out.
The ballots for this year’s class of the Magic: the Gathering Hall of Fame have gone out, and Mark Herberholz joins us for his look at the top candidates for induction in this year’s #MTGHOF class.
Only in Legacy can an all-but-forgotten Tier Three archetype show up and put two players in the same Grand Prix Top Eight. Just when you think it’s solved, things shift on you at least a little – that is why it’s such an awesome format!
Matt Higgs always has an angle, and for Magic Origins right now it’s the advantages inherent to the unsung color of Magic, artifacts. He has not one but two completely-colorless decks to try for Standard, check them out!
Mark has been working on Magic Origins Standard all weekend since the complete spoiler broke, and wants to share just a few of his first builds as he showcases just how deep this set is turning out to be.
We’ve seen all sorts of powerful and popular Standard decks make their way into Modern, and now it’s The Aristocrats’s turn. Check out one clever mage’s plan to sacrifice things for fun and profit!
It’s amazing how complicated a Modern deck can be if you let it, and Anthony’s new favorite deck in the format is a complex mix of nested dependencies and hidden opportunity costs that is just a real deckbuilder’s paradise to work on.
Carsten Kotter isn’t quite comfortable with his deck choice for Grand Prix Lille, and he showcases his metagame analysis and deck options while synthesizing something new for the event!
Abe thinks Chandra is the worst planeswalker in Magic Origins, and everyone knows red is the worst color in Commander – but taking two “worsts” and making a strong deck out of it anyway is the kind of challenge Abe loves.
