Cathartic Magic
Fourth walls are made to be broken, and Pro Tour Champion Shaun McLaren invites you into his mind as he prepares for the World Championships this weekend. Mind your feet, there’s plenty to trip on in here!
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Helm Of The Gods
Matt Higgs loves Helm of the Gods, but he’s struggling to find the right home for it. Read those struggles inside and find out if he gets there finally in the end or if it’s going to be an even longer trip than he’d realized to please the gods of Theros.
Greed Is Good
Standard has proven to be quite the dynamic format at the moment, but is there even more to it than we have already seen? Sean McKeown takes a look at the format’s mana in order to divine new decks that might be possible, with interesting results.
Walkers Everywhere
Standard keeps shifting on us, and this week’s win for Abzan Aggro when the deck was believed dead just goes to show how dynamic the format really is right now. But there is one specific card that seems to be at the center right now…
Recent Event Lessons
Trying to figure out if you are still progressing or if you have hit a personal plateau can be hard, especially if you are still achieving successes in the meantime. With that in mind, Pro Tour Champion Ari Lax looks at his recent events to see where he’s at.
Daily Digest: Let’s Make A Deal
Abzan Aggro is Standard’s latest top dog, but can you push it a little bit further? Does its volume go to eleven? Dromoka’s Command is already one of the best cards in Standard, but it’s even better when it profitably clears your pact with a Demon!
Examining The DC Legacy Open
Looking forward to the Season Three Invitational, Carsten Kotter takes the opportunity to look backwards to #SCGDC and see just how much you can get out of the metagame data in order to better understand the current state of the Legacy format.
Random Commander Baby: Ooze-Tastic Fun!
It’s time to press the random button for inspiration and motivation again, and Abe Sargent hits the jackpot this time as a beloved Commander pops up and chases his muses all over the place!
Twenty Underplayed Standard Cards That Could Be Post-Rotation Staples
While it may sound as if we are in the summer doldrums as we await Battle for Zendikar spoilers, now is actually the perfect time to pick up Khans Block and Magic Origins staples while the price is right!
The Rise Of Abzan Aggro
With Grand Prix London in the books, Patrick Chapin examines the Standard metagame and asks the question “so what’s next?” as players prepare for Worlds and the Season Three Invitational. Will Standard continue its wildly-shifting metagame trends, or have we seen everything at this point?
Todd VS. The Boss: Doran/Zur VS. 8-Rack
With the Standard Open returning to Charlotte this weekend, we’re also returning to the Modern format which has been shifting wildly during this PPTQ season. Todd and The Boss, Tom Ross, explore some of Modern’s more unusual decks in today’s Versus Video.
Daily Digest: Adapting The Best Deck
Another week of Magic Origin Standard, another week of huge metagame swings and an entirely different archetype taking home the trophy at Grand Prix London. Abzan Aggro dominated that event, fully updated to take down everything Standard could throw at it.
The Modern Landscape
Modern has proven to be a rapidly shifting and dynamic format – but we’re used to it only shifting when a lot of attention is paid to it. Anthony catches up with recent developments in the Modern metagame before this weekend’s Modern Open in Charlotte!
Simic Morph
The morph mechanic went “mega” in Dragons of Tarkir and Chris Lansdell is mesmerized! You won’t want to miss our resident brewer’s latest signature creation!
Video: Gather the Pack Abzan
Sam Black takes an Abzan deck featuring new Magic Origins option Gather the Pack through a four-round Standard event!