Two weeks ago, a 10K event was held in Philadelphia, featuring the Innistrad Standard. The results of that tournament (as well as the top finishing decklists) are brought to you by Pro Tour Historian and Coverage Reporter, Brian David-Marshall!
Over the past few months, we’ve seen a slew of decks win events. Valakut, Caw, Red, Birthing Pod, and now Solar Flare. Tempered Steel is not on that list, but why is Ari so high on the deck?
Grimgrin, Corpse-Born is the perfect General for a Zombie deck looking to play with a variety of cool themes like revival, looting, and sacrifice. See how Sean fixes up Ben’s Zombie deck and submit your own for next week!
Everyone is looking for a deck to take to States. After examining the metagame from the past two SCG Opens, Patrick has found an engine that can attack from all angles while drawing a ton.
Matt Ferrando teamed up with Steve Sadin and Tim Landale at the multi-format Grudge Match in Philadelphia. He put in work on his U/B Control deck, and it seemed to pay off. Check out the deck for States this weekend.
When I initially heard about The Grudge Match, a tournament with three new formats, I knew I definitely wanted to play all of them; there was even a team portion!
Cards like Liliana, Snapcaster Mage, and Stromkirk Noble have spiked in price recently. How should you plan on capitalizing on the rising price of Innistrad cards? Also, congrats to Jonathan for making Top 4 at Nashville!
Gavin has some big news to share with the Magic community. You do not want to miss this article! In it, he shares the bucket list of all the articles he would’ve liked to have written.
Tim Landale took down the Grudge Match in Philadelphia with a unique take on U/W Control with an emphasis on planeswalkers. This might be the next big thing in Standard, so take a gander before the Nashville Open.
Which 3.5 cards will change how Standard Magic is played? There are two kinds of very good Magic cards: super-efficient utility cards and cards that change the nature of the metagame. Today, Mike talks about the latter.
Only a maniac could possibly think of winning games by milling their entire library in Vintage… perhaps Mark Hornung is one such brewer.
In this, our final installment, I complete the complete set review with Gerry Thompson by discussing the Artifact, Land and Multicolor cards!
Brian Kibler, after playtesting the new set, sees a lot of potential in a RUG deck in Standard. While people are still high on Liliana and Snapcaster, he has his sights on a different pair of rares.
States is the weekend after SCG Open: Nashville, and it looks like the brewing is on full blast. Bennie polls his readers as to which deck he should run between several decks with Necrotic Ooze, Birthing Pod, and Heartless Summoning.
AJ Sacher made 11th place last weekend in Indy with a deck people have been calling “Solar Flare.” Where does this name come from, and why is it wrong to call the deck by this moniker?
