Modern Aftermath
With Grand Prix Charlotte in the books, Gerry takes a look back at his deck for the event, the other directions he was thinking about trying out, and what the results from that tournament mean for the metagame as a whole.
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Daily Digest: Beating Up On Brainstorm
Legacy is a format full of powerful cards and high-octane strategies, and there is nothing quite like copying Cloudposts and casting Eldrazi to push you even further over the top.
Of Titans And Dragons
Chris ran back Amulet Bloom at Grand Prix Charlotte and reflects on both his changes and his results, then looks at metagame shifts in the Standard format for this weekend’s events.
Video: Naya Company In Modern
Brian Kibler may be the Dragonmaster, but in Modern these days he’s been mastering Collected Company instead. In today’s video, he tries that out in an aggressive shell along with some of his favorite beatdown creatures!
Brad VS. BBD: G/R Devotion VS. Abzan Control
Brad and BBD gear up for a big Standard weekend by playing through one of the format’s most important matchups, battling format-boogeyman G/R Devotion against the tried-and-true Abzan Control.
Welcome To The Magic Optimization Matrix
Meet MOM, your friendly computer-based happiness optimization matrix that knows you well enough to tell you not to abandon Jeskai in order to play Splinter Twin, and unfortunately knows you’re too stubborn to take good advice when it’s given to you, Shaun.
Video: Modern Lantern Mill
With an unusual-looking artifact-based Prison deck making it to the top sixteen at Grand Prix Charlotte this weekend, Sam just had to take it out for a test drive and see how it works.
9th At GP Charlotte With Grixis: Home At Last!
After finishing 13-2 at Grand Prix Charlotte and only missing the Top Eight on tiebreakers, Patrick Chapin looks under the hood of the Grixis Control deck that brought him so close.
99% Perspiration
Matt Higgs likes to brew, but one of the key lessons he’s learned when brewing is that collaboration and persistence are more important than the brilliant idea you start with. Here he starts out with a Keranos Control deck and ends up someplace quite different.
Pulled Pork Devotion
Mark sees Standard right now as G/R Devotion Versus The World, and he knows which side of that fight he’d rather be on as he prepares for a big event this weekend!
Dear Azami: Rioting Against The Format
Jess takes a brief departure from the usual Dear Azami format to present a new alternative option to a reader with a broken Rakdos deck for their Prismatic project.
Daily Digest: Merging Obscure Archetypes
There’s nothing quite like mashing together two decks that don’t look like they’d fit in the least and finding out it actually works. Today, Gerry takes a look at the weirdest Temur deck we’ve seen in a while.
Todd VS. The Boss: Temur Dragons VS. Chromanti-Flayer
After so many weeks of grinding for huge events, Todd and Tom Ross want to check out some of the quirkier and more fun sides of Standard in today’s Versus Video!
Women In Magic: the Gathering
Meghan addresses the difficulties that come with female Magic players being held to an unfair double standard, the problems of female invisibility within the game, and how to remedy both of those issues fairly.
Daily Digest: When Dragons Evolve
Mardu Dragons has been making big gains in Standard in recent weeks, and Gerry takes a look at a variation on the archetype that might be the next step forward.