It’s time for another play-by-play, and today’s action features Sheldon’s latest go-to Commander, Yasova Dragonclaw, who excels at shifting the dynamic of the table by literally Threatening to take your stuff and hit you with it.
Cedric Phillips sits down with Patrick “PSulli” Sullivan to go over the results of #SCGBALT, analyze more cards from Magic Origins, and heavily discuss the new changes to Magic announced by Helene Bergeot.
Kiki-Jiki has been largely absent in Modern since the banning of Birthing Pod, but Collected Company may help revitalize that archetype in much the same way as it brought back the Melira-Pod deck now in Podless form.
If Brian Kibler is the Dragonmaster, then Jim Davis is the Goblinmaster. If anyone is inclined to have the right idea about what Goblin Piledriver’s impending reprint in Magic Origins means for Standard, it’d be Jim.
Zoo decks have always been assumed to be green, for whatever reason, but if the metric you’re shooting for is not “raw size” but instead favors a different characteristic, another color might rise to prominence. Check out this unusual take at Tribal Zoo!
The spoiler for Magic Origins is getting pretty complete, and Ben shares his thoughts about how he expects the set’s price trajectory to differ from prior Core Sets’ as well as price analyses for the individual cards added since yesterday’s update.
With more than half the set spoiled, GerryT feels confident that it’s going to pull Standard in one specific direction and has started building new decks with that in mind.
Sam Black is a huge fan of Magic Origins so far, and he wants to take its flavorful protagonists out for a deckbuilding spin to see just how good they are and what they want to be doing.
Chris VanMeter has really settled into a solid groove this season with G/R Dragons, but Magic Origins is about to shake things up drastically and he’s got to figure out what comes next for him and his beloved Stormbreath Dragons.
After facing off against him in Baltimore’s Standard Open, Brad wondered whether Dylan Hysen’s Mono-Red Devotion deck was the real deal or not and put it through its paces in this week’s Open Series Spotlight!
With enough of Magic Origins spoiled to get a good feel for what the set might have to offer us in Standard, BBD and Tom “The Boss” Ross start testing out post-Origins Standard in today’s Versus Video!
John Dale Beety savors the flavor of two powerful planeswalker origin tales, and Magic Origins is absolutely dripping with resonances thanks to the complex emotions portrayed and Wizards’ careful attention to detail.
Magic Origins is turning out to be quite an exciting set full of quirky, interesting, and powerful cards… and Michael Majors is intent on putting one of the riskier, more dangerous ones to work!
Modern is where great Standard decks go when they die, and Collected Company might just help power out an Aristocrats-type deck if that is what you wanted to do.
A few new key spoilers today, as well as an announcement from WotC adjusting the number of rares and mythics printed in Magic Origins!
