Daily Digest: Thopter Mysteries
The addition of Magic Origins to the Standard card pool has really fleshed out Magic 2015’s artifacts theme, and today’s deck from #SCGCHI focuses on blue and red’s shared appreciation of colorless power cards!
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Breaking Serve
Being on the play is great, everyone knows that, but to win an event you’ll have to win a lot of games on the draw. Just by losing a die roll, you’ll have to break serve at least once to win the match… and Tom “The Boss” Ross examines what you can focus on to do that more often.
Dark Deal And The New Standard
While Todd played the same deck that won #SCGCHI, G/R Devotion isn’t very fun to play – and the likelihood that the format will evolve for #SCGRICH and beyond is very high. Check out what he’s considering for this weekend and give it a try yourself!
Moving On From Chicago
After failing to innovate for #SCGCHI last weekend, Jim Davis looks at some of the most interesting decks from that event as he prepares for #SCGRICH.
Video: Bant Company In Modern
After scouring decklist databases and Daily Event statistics, Ari gives a Bant Collected Company deck a try to see how well it stacks up against the field after hearing a claim that it has the highest win percentage among all of the tracked archetypes.
CEDTalks: Patrick Sullivan
Cedric Phillips sits down with Patrick “PSulli” Sullivan to go over the results of #SCGCHI, discuss Patrick’s trash talking game when playing basketball, and give former SCGLive director, Conor O’Donnell a proper send off.
Daily Digest: Aggro Constellation
An interesting new take on an old deck will always catch GerryT’s eye, and a faster, more aggressive version of the tried-and-true B/G Constellation deck grabbed his attention at #SCGCHI! Check it out for #SCGRICH this weekend!
Reacting To SCG Chicago
Hot off of a semifinals appearance at #SCGSCHI, Ross Merriam examines how the Week One Standard metagame matched his expectations and what he thinks are the top decks at the moment.
Jeskai Something
Having spent all of Sunday at #SCGCHI trying to battle back from the rear of the pack, GerryT shares his insights on Jeskai in the format and the builds he finds most interesting moving forward from here.
CVM’s Spy Network: #SCGCHI From The Sidelines
This week Chris VanMeter looks at the top decks and final results of the new Standard format’s Week One metagame by digging through an entire weekend’s worth of stories and decklists out of #SCGCHI.
Commander VS: Four-Way Planeswalker Battle
For today’s Commander Versus Video, it’s a battle amidst the planes between Daretti, Freyalise, Ob Nixilis and Teferi. Which Commander will win the Multiverse?
BBD VS. Brad: Grixis Delver VS. Naya Company
For today’s Versus Video, BBD and Brad Nelson battle Modern to explore a pair of interesting decks that are recent $5K Modern Premier IQ winners.
Magic Origins Cards I Was Wrong About
With a few opportunities to play with Magic Origins in both Limited and Standard, Sam Black takes a second look at key cards in the set to re-evaluate their power or utility.
The Most Exciting Deck From SCG Chicago
Michael Majors fell in love immediately with the Rally the Ancestors combo deck from #SCGCHI, and he shares his love – as well as a few alternate builds as we take more metagame information into account – in this week’s article. Check it out in time for #SCGRICH this weekend!
Daily Digest: Kiki-Kut
The most intriguing combo decks combine two different plans so it is harder to disrupt them, and today’s Modern deck of note mixes Scapeshift’s Valakut kill with Kiki-Pod’s killer infinite combo!