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Innovations – Grixis With A Vengeance!

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.

At The Grudge Match: U/B Control

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.

Solar Flaring At The Grudge Match!

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!

Going Infinite – Innistrad On The Brain

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!

Flow Of Ideas – Journal Of Impossible Things

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.

Winning The Grudge Match

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.

Flores Friday – The New Paradigm Shifters

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.

In The Lab: Brewing A Maniac’s Brew

Only a maniac could possibly think of winning games by milling their entire library in Vintage… perhaps Mark Hornung is one such brewer.

The Magic Show Innistrad Set Review – Artifacts, Lands & Multicolor

In this, our final installment, I complete the complete set review with Gerry Thompson by discussing the Artifact, Land and Multicolor cards!

The Dragonmaster’s Lair – Standard’s First Steps And Daybreak Ranger RUG

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.

You Lika The Juice? Schooze Me? Three Standard Deck Concepts

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.

This Isn’t Solar Flare, Analyzing Decks, And A Word On Tiago

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?

The Kitchen Table #365 – Ten-Year Anniversary Special!

On October 8, 2001, my first article was published for SCG. That’s ten years ago today! In a celebration of this occasion, I thought it would be fun to have a bit of a retrospective and then write about Magic: The Role-Playing Game.

Constructed Criticism – Illusions Of Grandeur

Todd impressed a number of spectators (and himself) with the power of Illusions in Innistrad Standard. Read about the deck he used to Top 4 the Indianapolis Standard Open!

Black Magic – Dredging In Standard At SCG Indianapolis

It started with a draft deck. Sam Black found a Dredge engine in Standard and took it to Indianapolis for a spin. As the saying goes, once you pop Visions of Beyond for 3, you can’t stop!