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?
GerryT and two friends played Grixis Control to a combined 24-5 record in the Legacy portion of the Season Three Invitational, and as far as he’s concerned he’s found the best deck to play in all of Legacy!
It’s been quite a while since we’ve seen U/W Control at the top of the standings in Modern, but this weekend saw not one but two strong finishes for the archetype as it begins making its resurgence.
While Worlds could have gone better for Ari, there’s still a lot he learned over a momentous weekend of Magic and he’s here to share his thoughts on multiple formats and how things will be shaken up by new rotations and the Vancouver Mulligan rule.
It’s been a while since we’ve seen Mono-Red do well in Standard, but new additions to compensate for the changes to the rest of the format might offer the deck a new lease on life now that the metagame is not fixated solely on attacking it out of existence.
