Tom “The Boss” Ross has been playing Heroic in one form or another for most of the season, and he’s well-prepared to stay on top of Standard’s ever-shifting metagame. Catch his updates to the Bant Heroic archetype as well as his sideboarding advice to win each matchup!
There is some wondering if next week’s trip through the metagame cycle will finally be control’s time to shine, and today’s deck is looking to jump ahead and answer that question with a pile of Planeswalkers!
With #SCGCHAR bringing Modern back to the forefront of the Open Series this weekend, Pro Tour Champion Ari Lax explores the shifting Modern metagame with a sweet Naya beatdown deck.
Cedric Phillips sits down with Patrick “PSulli” Sullivan to chat about their performances at #GPDetroit, catch up on Modern for #SCGCHA, and eye up the potential first sponsor for the Open Series.
Who knew the grind could be such a grind? Standard right now commands us to find the next week’s best deck or find ourselves in the loser’s bracket, and Ross takes a look at where we find ourselves today in order to figure out where we want to be tomorrow.
With the Season Three Invitational soon to be upon us, Jim Davis takes a look at the Legacy deck he’s been brewing up over the past few months in search of the perfect weapon for that event.
While it’s hard to be sure, it looks like Standard may start cycling back through the previous iterations of its metagame rather than continuing to break out in new directions… so GerryT shares his look at the format’s top decks to prepare for your next event!
Modern has gotten several new Magic Origins cards to shake up the metagame, but the one Michael Majors is interested in trying out there isn’t some tribal Elf or Goblin, it’s a two-drop from the Planeswalkers tribe instead!
As the Standard metagame continues to shift and Abzan Aggro has taken the forefront, is it control’s time to reassert itself in the next wave of the metagame cycle? BBD and Brad battle head to head in order to figure out which control deck might be king: Abzan, or Esper Dragons?
With this much shifting around in the Standard format, Sam Black feels lost – when will the dynamic changes stop and the format settle into one place? While he waits, he has a few ideas for what the next gyration might look like in order to get out ahead of it.
Killing off creatures is a big part of what Commander is about, people play mass removal there the way Standard players play spot removal. Sheldon Menery continues his comprehensive look at how to wipe the board with today’s look at damage- and toughness-based removal spells.
We’ve seen how Magic Origins greatly shifted around the Standard format, but it’s doing the same to Modern too, just without us looking as closely at it. Patrick “The Innovator” Chapin checks in on the format to see where it’s at ahead of its return at Worlds next weekend.
Heroic has been a powerful option that not a lot of people reach for in the current Standard format, but a new spin on the deck to speed it up and make it more aggressive might be just what the deck was missing as every other deck in the format has gone through its convoluted changes.
With Martin Juza’s G/R Dragons deck being the only non-white deck in the Grand Prix London Top Eight, GerryT updates it and puts it through its paces as he tries to figure out what’s next for the Standard format.
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!
