Coming Full Circle In Modern
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.
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.
Pro Tour Champion Ari Lax takes G/R Devotion out for an intensive test session to prepare for Grand Prix Providence this weekend!
Heroic decks are always floating around the Standard metagame, usually without very much attention paid to them. Todd takes W/U Heroic out for a spin in preparation for Grand Prix Providence!
G/R Devotion is the top dog in Standard right now, and you need to either beat it or join it if you want to have a chance. Michael Majors is here with advice for both of those options!
In today’s Commander VS video, it’s Athreos, God of Passage versus Vhati il-Dal versus Jenara, Asura of War versus Doran, the Siege Tower in this four-player free-for-all!
John Dale Beety dives deep into Magic Origins, savoring the flavor of the set and exploring what we know about the ten planes and five planeswalkers that are the focus of the last-ever Core Set.
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.
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.
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.