Artificer Flavoring
Magic Origins has quite a few interesting legendary creatures to build around for Commander, and Bennie puts Ma and Pa Nalaar to work in this off-the-wall combo machine full of interesting and unexpected outcomes!
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Standard Practices
BBD examines the cyclical nature of the Standard metagame as he looks at the #SCGCHI results and predicts what is to follow at #SCGRICH and #PTOrigins over the next few weeks.
Shifting Standard: A Look At #SCGCHI
Brian “The Dragonmaster” Kibler takes a look at Standard’s most interesting decks after #SCGCHI, and of course at G/R Devotion with its love for Dragonlord Atarka. Which deck should you choose for #SGRICH and beyond?
Todd VS. CVM: Five-Color Rally VS. R/W Aggro
Todd Anderson and Chris VanMeter battle Standard today with the intent of figuring out how good the Five-Color Rally deck is under pressure, so they put it up against another key deck from #SCGCHI to see how it holds up against R/W Aggro!
Todd VS. Brad: Merfolk VS. Jund
In today’s Versus Video, Todd Anderson and Brad Nelson explore the recent high finishes by Merfolk in Modern by putting it up against a critical nemesis, good old-fashioned Jund.
Updating Modern With Magic Origins
Two of Adrian’s favorite Modern decks have potentially gotten key updates with Magic Origins cards, and he prepares them both for the $5K Premier IQ at #SCGRICH this weekend!
Daily Digest: Thopter Mysteries
The addition of Magic Origins to the Standard card pool has really fleshed out Magic 2015’s artifacts theme, and today’s deck from #SCGCHI focuses on blue and red’s shared appreciation of colorless power cards!
Breaking Serve
Being on the play is great, everyone knows that, but to win an event you’ll have to win a lot of games on the draw. Just by losing a die roll, you’ll have to break serve at least once to win the match… and Tom “The Boss” Ross examines what you can focus on to do that more often.
Dark Deal And The New Standard
While Todd played the same deck that won #SCGCHI, G/R Devotion isn’t very fun to play – and the likelihood that the format will evolve for #SCGRICH and beyond is very high. Check out what he’s considering for this weekend and give it a try yourself!
Moving On From Chicago
After failing to innovate for #SCGCHI last weekend, Jim Davis looks at some of the most interesting decks from that event as he prepares for #SCGRICH.
Video: Bant Company In Modern
After scouring decklist databases and Daily Event statistics, Ari gives a Bant Collected Company deck a try to see how well it stacks up against the field after hearing a claim that it has the highest win percentage among all of the tracked archetypes.
CEDTalks: Patrick Sullivan
Cedric Phillips sits down with Patrick “PSulli” Sullivan to go over the results of #SCGCHI, discuss Patrick’s trash talking game when playing basketball, and give former SCGLive director, Conor O’Donnell a proper send off.
Daily Digest: Aggro Constellation
An interesting new take on an old deck will always catch GerryT’s eye, and a faster, more aggressive version of the tried-and-true B/G Constellation deck grabbed his attention at #SCGCHI! Check it out for #SCGRICH this weekend!
Reacting To SCG Chicago
Hot off of a semifinals appearance at #SCGSCHI, Ross Merriam examines how the Week One Standard metagame matched his expectations and what he thinks are the top decks at the moment.
Jeskai Something
Having spent all of Sunday at #SCGCHI trying to battle back from the rear of the pack, GerryT shares his insights on Jeskai in the format and the builds he finds most interesting moving forward from here.