Ravnica Allegiance Draft Drills!
Quick! You’re suddenly in the Draft queues for Magic’s newest expansion and you have to make some first picks! Consult our panel of SCG Limited specialists to get ahead of the format before the Prerelease!

Quick! You’re suddenly in the Draft queues for Magic’s newest expansion and you have to make some first picks! Consult our panel of SCG Limited specialists to get ahead of the format before the Prerelease!
It doesn’t get anymore straightforward than this! Ben Friedman is calling shots and dropping mics. If you’re not onboard with these major game-changers when Standard comes calling, best of luck to you!
Episode 81 is here and brings a detailed statistical analysis of Ravnica Allegiance! Your hosts have some hot takes on the top commons and uncommons as well as discussing tricky cards to evaluate!
The Limited mastery begins again! Ryan Saxe is hyped to be attacking with this guild, but what does a good Gruul deck even look like? Is it too early to tell? Ryan gets you started right on the new format!
Is this the most important legend in Ravnica Allegiance in terms of Commander impact? Is it the most important card, period? Bennie Smith takes the already-popular Vannifar through his deckbuilding paces!
Look out, Aristocrats fans! This card may show us some tricks we never thought we’d get to do in Standard! But is it good enough to hang around the top tier? Dylan Hand ventures into the dark side with these new lists!
Ross Merriam and Todd Anderson return to give you more of their entertaining testing for new Standard! Can’t wait until the Prerelease to engage with the new cards? Here’s your ticket now!
Shaheen has his four-mana wrath, but it comes with a cost. Is the card good enough? The Esper expert is happy to put together the reasons why you should be happy to play control in Ravnica Allegiance Standard!
Gerry may have been out last week, but nothing was going to keep him from talking about all the Ravnica Allegiance previews we got over the last week! There’s no shortage of exciting cards to talk about, so let’s get going!
Todd Anderson and Ross Merriam are ready to see which guild truly reigns supreme, all while testing out new cards for Standard! Which guild do you think is poised to win it all in the coming months?
Instant removal that lets you cast free spells? Yeah, that should do fine in Modern. Carmen shows off the many archetypes that may soon find themselves playing more unfair than ever! Imagine one of these decks winning SCG Worcester…and THEN getting this card!
Some types of cards frequently appear in Magic sets, and Ryan uses that to teach him about the format…before he ever sleeves up a single card! Learn from his excellent theory on Limited format prediction here!
It’s not just tournament Magic that the new set is making all these waves in! Sheldon Menery picks up some of the early legends from preview season to explain the best and/or most fun directions you can take them! He even has some suggested synergies to boot!
The lame ducks of the past–cough, Bloodsoaked Champion–have given poor little Gutterbones a tough time this preview season! But as Abraham Stein warns, if you spend too much time worrying about the big splashy mythics, these cards might get you…
Is Fires of Yavimaya really back? Is Kaya’s Wrath what control players want? Is Birthing Pod as good as real again? Tom Ross, Shaheen Soorani, and Brad Nelson debate the realities of the upcoming Ravnica Allegiance set here!