Are you still wondering why nothing got banned in Standard? John Dale Beety looks at the general business of banning cards before getting into the specifics of why the Delver deck avoided a ban this time.
In this episode of In Contention, the official podcast of the SCG Open Series, Reuben, Kranny, and Joey talk about SCG Open Series: Detroit, GP Yokohama, GP Vancouver, IPA Draft, the unbanning of Land Tax, and more!
Pro Tour mainstay Gerard Fabiano returns to writing with an in-depth look at Team Italia, a Legacy deck he created last year and has championed ever since. Check it out it if you want to play something different at the SCG Legacy Open in Seattle.
Six-time SCG Legacy Open Top 8 competitor Drew Levin tells you why playing a hate deck in Legacy is a losing proposition. Find out what you should consider playing instead at GP Atlanta or the SCG Legacy Open in Seattle this weekend!
Dayv Doberne provides your weekly Magic puzzle fix and also shares the Standard deck he plans on playing this weekend at the SCG Standard Open in Seattle.
It’s already well into June, and the world of Magic: The Gathering in Japan is heating up along with the weather. Find out what Standard decks American Ryan Schwenk has been facing in Japan lately.
Welcome to the Standard edition of Too Much Information! SCG Invitational finalist Michael Hetrick breaks down and analyzes the meta from three recent events: SCG Standard Opens in Worcester and Indy and the SCG Invitational in Indy.
It’s almost time to celebrate the new year…of Magic! Top Australian pro Jeremy Neeman talks M13, including exclusive interviews with Ajani and Liliana, a review of a sweet reprint, and a discussion of a few unassuming role-players.
You probably know Glenn Jones as SCG’s Event Coverage Coordinator, but he likes to spend his free time playing casual Magic formats—including Commander, Cube, Winston Draft, Type 4, and many, many more.
Brian DeMars is surprised Griselbrand hasn’t been tearing up Vintage the way he anticipated it might, so he has rethought how to best take advantage of him in the current Vintage metagame with his Griselbrand Oath deck.
Ari Lax made Top 4 of Standard with Esper Midrange and placed 18th in Legacy with Storm at SCG Open Series: Detroit this past weekend. Read why he recommends both decks for SCG Open Series: Seattle (and see his five-minute primer for Storm!).
If you’re interested in playing Pauper with paper cards, Alex Ullman has compiled a complete list of cards that have seen serious play in the format and the number of each card you would need to purchase to have a playset of every potential card.
With nothing banned in Standard, Valeriy Shunkov thinks we have the perfect chance to prove that we’re able to fight the Delver menace. He’s been working on a Naya Pod deck that you should look at playing at SCG Open Series: Seattle.
Cube theorist Usman Jamil gives you ideas for cards that you can include in your cube to enable and support symmetrical disruption decks while also being generally useful to the cube as a whole.
Sean McKeown was itching to build a deck with a new Planechase commander, so he went ahead and built himself a sweet 100-card deck with Vela the Night-Clad as general.
