Originality
We now know everything there is to know about Magic Origins, so it’s time for Bennie to start brewing with all the odd and quirky cards the set has to offer.
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Daily Digest: How To Stack Up Wins
Powerful decks have a habit of jumping formats, and when a deck jumps from Legacy to Modern or from Vintage to Legacy, paying attention is a good idea. Stax has been ported to Legacy before, but today’s build might just have the right stuff!
Daily Financial Value Of Magic Origins – July 2nd
On this next-to-last day before the full Magic Origins spoiler hits us, we have all sixteen mythics and all but two rares – Ben’s got the latest update inside as well as a breakdown of the expected value of Origins boxes!
Unbinding The Telepath Within
Jace, Telepath Unbound is an intriguing planeswalker – his ultimate is either a do-nothing or a game-winner, and his -3 ability sounds like Snapcaster Mage’s but is very different. The Boss puts Jace through his paces in a variety of decks.
Jace And Jeskai Tokens
Magic Origins is promising to have a huge impact in the upcoming Standard format, especially its plethora of Planeswalkers. Todd looks at some of his favorite cards from the set and examines how he thinks they will impact the format.
Christmas In July
Magic Origins is turning out to be a real deckbuilder’s paradise, and Ross Merriam builds around some of the key cards that have caught his attention.
Yasova Dragonclaw Play-By-Play
It’s time for another play-by-play, and today’s action features Sheldon’s latest go-to Commander, Yasova Dragonclaw, who excels at shifting the dynamic of the table by literally Threatening to take your stuff and hit you with it.
CEDTalks: Patrick Sullivan
Cedric Phillips sits down with Patrick “PSulli” Sullivan to go over the results of #SCGBALT, analyze more cards from Magic Origins, and heavily discuss the new changes to Magic announced by Helene Bergeot.
Video: Kiki-Company In Modern
Kiki-Jiki has been largely absent in Modern since the banning of Birthing Pod, but Collected Company may help revitalize that archetype in much the same way as it brought back the Melira-Pod deck now in Podless form.
Hello, Old Friend
If Brian Kibler is the Dragonmaster, then Jim Davis is the Goblinmaster. If anyone is inclined to have the right idea about what Goblin Piledriver’s impending reprint in Magic Origins means for Standard, it’d be Jim.
Daily Digest: Black Zoo
Zoo decks have always been assumed to be green, for whatever reason, but if the metric you’re shooting for is not “raw size” but instead favors a different characteristic, another color might rise to prominence. Check out this unusual take at Tribal Zoo!
Daily Financial Value Of Magic Origins – July 1st
The spoiler for Magic Origins is getting pretty complete, and Ben shares his thoughts about how he expects the set’s price trajectory to differ from prior Core Sets’ as well as price analyses for the individual cards added since yesterday’s update.
A Second Look At Magic Origins
With more than half the set spoiled, GerryT feels confident that it’s going to pull Standard in one specific direction and has started building new decks with that in mind.
Planeswalker Origins
Sam Black is a huge fan of Magic Origins so far, and he wants to take its flavorful protagonists out for a deckbuilding spin to see just how good they are and what they want to be doing.
The Future Origins Of G/R Dragons
Chris VanMeter has really settled into a solid groove this season with G/R Dragons, but Magic Origins is about to shake things up drastically and he’s got to figure out what comes next for him and his beloved Stormbreath Dragons.