Blue Devotion is a powerful strategy, and a lot of new cards have left people wondering when it will finally have its breakout performance. It’s just waiting for the right build, and this may be the one!
I take a moment to apologize for a moment of poor judgment and explain my thought process behind publishing Jim Davis’s most recent article about women and Magic.
Brian looks back on his performance at Grand Prix Charlotte and what led him to his Bant Company deck when a Wild Nacatl/Collected Company deck ended up tied for Top Eight.
Grand Prix Charlotte showcased some interesting and powerful new decks, and have helped to further convince Brian to just go broken in the format as long as they’ll let him. Now, what to play in Standard this weekend?
BBD and CVM prepare for this weekend’s events by battling with two of Standard’s more important archetypes, trying out Mardu Aggro to see if it can withstand the aggressive power of Abzan Aggro!
With a big weekend ahead of us for Standard, Brad and Todd battle with two decks that are both well-positioned to handle G/R Devotion to see how well they can handle each other.
Bennie is not very Izzet at heart – he bleeds Golgari, through and through – but a snazzy full-art copy of Melek, Izzet Paragon has him walking the planes in Ral Zarek’s footsteps with his latest Commander deck!
Dragonlord Ojutai and Silumgar’s Scorn in Modern. Do we really need to tell you anything more? Check out Adrian’s latest creation and test it out for yourself!
The Boss has had some Modern adventures over the past two weeks, and he recounts the Season Two Invitational Weekend and Grand Prix Charlotte and the variety of decks he played across multiple events.
In search of a few clutch Pro Points at Grand Prix Providence, Todd has been honing his weapon of choice – Bant Heroic – building in more power and finding the right sideboard plans to earn him the wins he needs.
Sheldon pulls out his trusty Karador deck for this week’s play-by-play, wading through a massive five-player game full of chaos and oddities.
Ross is excited about Magic Origins, and he begins his exploration of its Standard ramifications by trying to find homes for two of the set’s signature planeswalkers, Gideon Jura and Liliana Vess.
With the Standard metagame seeming to be very well-defined, Gerry wanted to try out a new archetype to see how good it is – check out this unusual Temur deck based around powerful artifact interactions.
Sometimes, just sometimes, Nourishing Shoal does crazy things it shouldn’t be able to do – usually involving Griselbrand. Gerry takes a look at the latest iteration of the Goryo’s Vengeance deck, courtesy of Grand Prix Charlotte.
Dragons are a powerful creature type, and the Dragons of Tarkir are especially deadly. Chris takes a look at Mike Flores’s successful Blue Dragons deck with an interest to port it over into a different color.
