Everything old is new again if you just wait long enough in this Standard metagame. The red-blue artifact deck returns, taking down Magic Online’s Standard Championships with a base-red deck full of burn and Ensoul Artifacts rather than the Pro Tour’s blue-based shell.
The World Championships is Magic’s largest stage and its hardest tournament. Even getting into the event is a serious accomplishment, but Brad Nelson didn’t want to rest on his laurels when there were twenty-three other mages standing between him and the title.
Want to get aggressive for #SCGCIN this weekend? Pro Tour Champion Ari Lax runs an unusual deck he uncovered in his #MTGChamps testing through its paces for the consideration of Modern aficionados everywhere!
For this week’s exploration into the Do Over Project, Sheldon Menery Embraces the Chaos once again and transforms his signature Commander, Kresh the Bloodbraided, into a whole new experience via a brand-new deck.
The World Championships is the year’s hardest tournament, and this year there were especially huge swings as Sam Black went from fourteenth place to fourth with one timely 4-0 in Standard. He shares his thoughts on the event and its formats inside.
The World Championships this past weekend was really the pinnacle of this Standard format, and Patrick “The Innovator” Chapin is here to explore all the twists and nuanced turns of the event’s top-performing decklists.
Experimenting with different cards in different formats is how we find new decks. As important as it is to remember to polish your experiments into fully-crafted decks before taking them to a major competition, remember this as well: nothing ventured, nothing gained.
With Grixis decks of various stripes constituting several of Modern’s best decks, GerryT takes Grixis Control out for a spin to see how powerful Jace, Vryn’s Prodigy is in the format!
The inability of white to field a credible Devotion deck has been a long-running joke for this past year of Standard, but it finally got its moment to shine at the World Championships by getting Sam Black into the elimination rounds.
We’ve seen Hangarback Walker start to dominate everywhere else, what about Jeskai? Better yet, what about Jeskai Ascendancy? Double the untaps means double the fun, after all…
With the StarCityGames Open returning to the Modern format this weekend in Cincinnati, BBD and Tom Ross playtest some of the format’s more intriguing decks by exploring the Merfolk versus Grixis Control matchup!
So close and yet so far, Pro Tour Champion Shaun McLaren looks back at his result from this year’s World Championships and unpacks why he picked the decks he played for both Standard and Modern.
Sean McKeown visits to help a reader’s friend not quit Magic by fixing her Brago, King Eternal deck – and if you’ve ever wanted to write for Star City Games, you should definitely check this article out!
Matt Higgs loves to take all sorts of weird cards and staple them together, and today’s weirdness is a melding of the minds between two very different things: The Great Aurora and… Dreadwaters?
With Standard having come around full-circle, it should come as no surprise that Mark Nestico wants to circle back to one of his old favorites too – if this format really is all about Hangarback Walkers, shouldn’t Kolaghan’s Commands (and thus Mardu) be king?
