While #PTOrigins was all about red aggro and the breakout performance of U/R Thopters, there are some intriguing other decks to be found on the margins – and Chris Landsell pores over the top Standard decks from this weekend in search of brewers’ gold.
While there were a lot of potential options to choose for Pro Tour Magic Origins Patrick Chapin joined his teammate Matt Sperling in playing Abzan Control to try and run the field.
GerryT made a deep run at #PTOrigins playing good old G/R Devotion in Standard and practicing a ton of Magic Origins draft, and this is the story of the Pro Tour through his eyes.
Mono-Red was the top deck at #PTOrigins and it came almost out of nowhere – or so it seems. Sam Black shares the origins of how his team picked the deck that won Pro Tour Magic Origins and shares how it shifts Standard going forward.
With #SCGDC just days away, BBD and Brad reprise one of the key matchups from #GPLille, battling U/W Miracles with Monastery Mentor versus the Aggro Loam deck that wasn’t on many people’s radar before it posted two copies to the Top Eight!
If you’re interested in coming to Grand Prix London, John Dale Beety has all the info you need to figure out how to get around and what you should go see while you’re visiting the city!
Gurmag Angler has been a breakout card in older formats like Modern and Legacy, but it doesn’ get a lot of play in Standard. Today’s deck from #PTOrigins may be helping to change that, mixing mill synergies and Delve fatties to overpower a wide variety of opponents.
While #PTOrigins saw a lot of successful breakout decks, Pro Tour Champion Shaun McLaren felt his strongest chances lay with improving Ray Tautic’s Abzan Rally deck – and earned a strong finish because of it!
After exploding basically out of nowhere to nearly take the tournament down at #PTOrigins, the U/R Thopters deck has caught everyone’s attention – including GerryT’s. Check it out as he takes the deck out for a test drive!
Matt Higgs has been brewing around artifacts for some time now, and his focus kept getting pulled to the colorless cards in Magic Origins. Seeing U/R Thopters in the finals of #PTOrigins was really vindicating, and this is his takeaway from that event.
While the story of #PTOrigins may feature the breakout decks of Mono-Red Aggro and U/R Thopters, Pro Tour Champion Ari Lax had very strong results just running good old G/R Devotion… and he looks back at his past year of Pro Tour and Grand Prix decisions as well.
With Cassidy away at GenCon last week, Sean McKeown makes a brief visit back to Commander-land in order to work on a reader’s Surrak Dragonclaw deck designed to win based off of its land base – sometimes in unconventional ways.
With just Day One of #PTOrigins in the books, it was clear that red decks were doing something right that weekend – so Mark Nestico took his friendly neighborhood Chandra aficionado’s advice and ran Mono-Red Aggro for #SCGRegionals. This is his story.
While this deck was not on anybody’s radar before #PTOrigins, U/R Ensoul Artifact was a top performer across multiple teams. Check it out and give it a try before your next Standard event – it’s much better than it looks on paper!
Grand Prix London is going to be an amazing event, but you can tailor your experience to your needs even more if you want to. Nick Miller joins us to explain the Registration Rewards system we’ll be using for #GPLondon on August 15th-16th.
