Meet MOM, your friendly computer-based happiness optimization matrix that knows you well enough to tell you not to abandon Jeskai in order to play Splinter Twin, and unfortunately knows you’re too stubborn to take good advice when it’s given to you, Shaun.
With an unusual-looking artifact-based Prison deck making it to the top sixteen at Grand Prix Charlotte this weekend, Sam just had to take it out for a test drive and see how it works.
After finishing 13-2 at Grand Prix Charlotte and only missing the Top Eight on tiebreakers, Patrick Chapin looks under the hood of the Grixis Control deck that brought him so close.
Matt Higgs likes to brew, but one of the key lessons he’s learned when brewing is that collaboration and persistence are more important than the brilliant idea you start with. Here he starts out with a Keranos Control deck and ends up someplace quite different.
Mark sees Standard right now as G/R Devotion Versus The World, and he knows which side of that fight he’d rather be on as he prepares for a big event this weekend!
Jess takes a brief departure from the usual Dear Azami format to present a new alternative option to a reader with a broken Rakdos deck for their Prismatic project.
There’s nothing quite like mashing together two decks that don’t look like they’d fit in the least and finding out it actually works. Today, Gerry takes a look at the weirdest Temur deck we’ve seen in a while.
After so many weeks of grinding for huge events, Todd and Tom Ross want to check out some of the quirkier and more fun sides of Standard in today’s Versus Video!
Meghan addresses the difficulties that come with female Magic players being held to an unfair double standard, the problems of female invisibility within the game, and how to remedy both of those issues fairly.
Mardu Dragons has been making big gains in Standard in recent weeks, and Gerry takes a look at a variation on the archetype that might be the next step forward.
Chas looks back at his predictions for Dragons of Tarkir now that the cards have had a chance to flourish in Standard and Modern. How well did his predictions hold up, and what lessons (if any) should be taken away from the experience?
Ari takes a look at the things that truly matter in our present Standard format and how they evolved to this point in order to divine the likely future developments and get out ahead of them.
Anthony has been working on G/R Dragons ever since Thunderbreak Regent got spoiled, and he looks at whether or not the deck is well-positioned for Grand Prix Providence this weekend – as well as another spoiled Dragon that is weighing on his mind!
In this latest installment of his Impossible Commanders series, Abe Sargent takes on yet another underpowered and under-loved Commander, Rashida Scalebane, to try and find her as good a home as possible.
Kolaghan’s Command has been breaking out all across Modern, and Sam pushes it to its logical extreme in this Grixis Control shell.
