Are Spirits, Black Aggro, And Pod The 3 Best Decks In Standard?
What are currently the best decks in Standard? Patrick Chapin finds out by analyzing the results from Pro Tour Dark Ascension and StarCityGames.com Open: Charlotte in his 300th article.
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Humans In Honolulu
What was the most played deck at Pro Tour Dark Ascension? Humans! Marijn Lybaert goes over why he chose to go with the masses and details a sideboard plan for SCG Open: Memphis this weekend.
Delving For Secrets: How To Improve Your Results
Lauren Nolen recently won the StarCityGames.com Standard Open in Cincinnati with U/W Delver. He gives insight into how he prepared for the tournament and what you can do to improve your own performance on the Open Series.
Eleven Straight
Adam Prosak won StarCityGames.com Legacy Open in Cincinnati with a surprising deck choice. Learn how the he broke his pact to always play Brainstorm and came around to successfully pilot Dredge.
Unusual Directions
Do you want to play the game and see the world? Valeriy Shunkov tells you how to do both with Birthing Pod, Mono-Black, and Heartless Summoning in Standard and upcoming Grand Prix Moscow this autumn. Prepare for the Standard Open this weekend in Charlotte!
Numbers
There are many roads to the Pro Tour—but statistically, which of these players tend to do the best? Is it the Hall of Famers? The GP grinders? How did the Planeswalker Points crew do overall? Mike Flores crunches the numbers.
My First Draft Open
If you’ve never played in a Draft Open before—or any competitive draft—Matt Higgs takes you through his first experience and what to expect. He ended up making 4th place! Try your luck at the Charlotte Draft Open this weekend
Huntmaster Of Honolulu: Part One
The Dragonmaster has become the Huntmaster. Brian Kibler writes about everything that led up to his Pro Tour win last weekend, the foreshadowing before the big event. Read how he prepared for Dark Ascension Standard.
The Standard Metagame For Charlotte
Brad Nelson’s back from Hawaii. He discusses the big decks to come out of Pro Tour Dark Ascension and recommends U/B Control for this weekend. Against Ramp and Spirits, could U/B Control be the perfect counter?
Dark Ascension In Commander
What did Commander gain from Dark Ascension? Bennie Smith goes color-by-color through the best cards Dark Ascension has to offer Commander decks.
The Colors Of Pauper: Green
The color green wraps up Alex Ullman’s Pauper series. With its low-cost yet effective creatures, green is the perfect color if one wants to sling the beats in Pauper.
I’ve Got 99 Problems But A Cage Ain’t One
Dredge’s death in Vintage has been greatly exaggerated. Have Grafdigger’s Cage? No problem! Mark Hornung and Matt Elias have a deck, and its name is Cagebreaker.
Primer On Caw-Blade For GP Lincoln
Known online as haiSOOOOdesu, Marco Orsini Jones is a UK player who’s seen a lot of success with Caw-Blade on Magic Online, Top 8ing the first two PTQs of the season. He’s adopted his deck for GP Lincoln and shares all its secrets.
Greetings From Mulldrifting!
Lauren Lee, aka Mulldrifting, has undergone a transformation of sorts. What’s happening to StarCityGames.com’s former Copy Editor?
The Sukenik Special: Observing Zombies In Hawaii
Jonathan Sukenik takes a look at how both Mono-Black and B/R Zombies did at Pro Tour Dark Ascension. Should you consider eating brains in Standard at the Charlotte Open? Find out here!