In this episode of In Contention, the official podcast of the SCG Open Series, Reuben, Kranny and Joey discuss the newly spoiled Return to Ravnica cards and the impact of spoiling cards before they’re officially previewed.
Watch as Todd battles with the U/W Delver deck featuring Talrand, Sky Summoner that he wrote about in his article last week to prepare for Standard at SCG Open Series: Atlanta featuring the Invitational.
How do you determine if a deck is dominant? Jesse discusses how Delver and Zombies have performed in current Standard recently and recommends a deck for this weekend’s SCG Open Series: Atlanta featuring the Invitational.
Check out Brian DeMars’ in-depth matchup analysis featuring two powerful and successful Vintage decks, Grixis Control and MUD.
Updated 9/18 Tuesday 11:20 PM EDT! Ben Bleiweiss is doing something different this spoiler season! Don’t miss his daily updates on the Financial Value of Return to Ravnica.
Get ready for Return to Ravnica by reading Ashley Morway’s thoughts about some of the new cards. She’s particularly looking for cards with potential in Standard as well as for goodies to add to her Commander decks.
Although the complete Return to Ravnica spoiler isn’t out yet, Ari decided to go ahead and start building a Standard gauntlet with the decks that will change the least and test new decks the most: aggro and midrange.
Read about the Standard deck that renowned rogue brewer Adrian Sullivan has been playing a lot lately and feels is a reasonable choice for SCG Open Series: Atlanta featuring the Invitational this weekend.
Since he’s an Izzet mage, Valeriy Shunkov has been hard at work testing a couple of red and blue decks that he’s come up with for Standard once Return to Ravnica is released.
This week Usman Jamil discusses the role of flexible cards that serve multiple purposes and their uses in Cube (including some Return to Ravnica cards that have been spoiled!).
It looks like everyone is ready for the upcoming Return to Ravnica, including a reader who has requested Sean’s help with his Skullbriar, the Walking Grave Commander deck that contains spoiled cards.
If you’re a power gamer trying to break formats, Patrick Chapin thinks it’s your duty to attempt to exploit Angel of Serenity’s infinite possibilities in Return to Ravnica Standard.
Have you ever wondered where that weird foil or full art card came from or what the most valuable FNM card of all time is? Chas has got you covered in his first article in a series on promotional Magic cards.
Todd and BBD feature Modern in this week’s playtesting video. See if Todd’s fast aggro deck is able to overrun BBD playing aggro-control or if BBD is able to battle through the onslaught of creatures.
This week Mike shows you a few rough Return to Ravnica Standard decklists to give you some new and different ideas of what can be (and how the shape of the world might soon look) with the new set.
