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Aether Revolt Standard Decks

We’ve got brews! Todd Stevens is ready for SCG Columbus, which is coming up sooner than you think! Get ready for Aether Revolt with one of the best Magic minds on the SCG Tour!

Split Second: January 11th, 2017

An early update to the banned and restricted list, LoadingReadyRun enjoys Aether Revolt early, and hard times for The Professor. This is Split Second!

Aether Revolt Commander Review

No new set gets a free pass from Sheldon Menery! He wants to take a close look at Aether Revolt and provide each color a grade! Red fans: look away!

The Bans Suck

Everyone agrees that the bans are great and that they did the right thing…right? Wrong! Pro Tour Champion Shaun McLaren is happy to be the bad guy. Yeah, the two formats probably needed some help, but was this really necessary?

Using Improvise In Standard

Free spells and infinite combos are certainly possible, but that’s not where the format begins and ends! Sam Black is going deeper by taking a look at a mechanic we have a lot of precedent for! How will you use this mechanic to its fullest when SCG heads to Columbus?

Daily Digest: The Goblins Were Everywhere

It’s a bizarre time of year for Daily Digest, which is why Ross Merriam is enlisting you! Have a brew you want spotlighted? Now is your chance!

Sram And His Expertise

Sram may very well spawn some very dangerous archetypes! Chris Lansdell is ready to lend his expertise to both Sram and his spell in this brand new brewing experiment!

Fact Or Fiction: Copy Cats And Fatal Strats

Join a Pro Tour Champion and a Player of the Year as they debate everything surrounding Magic with Aether Revolt! Which perspectives do you most agree and disagree with? Who has earned your vote?

Let’s Draft The Vintage Cube!

Encore! Encore! Encore! You can never get enough of this Vintage Cube stuff, and Sam Black agrees. So he’s heading right back into the most powerful queue in the business!

Drafting Digest: Time To Revolt!

Aether Revolt is on its way, and Ryan Saxe isn’t waiting to get his hands on packs to get ahead of the competition! We’ve got a few days until we’re working with print runs proper, but we can still work on our Draft game now!

Counters And Colossi In New Kaladesh

Now then, with all of that pressure to beat Emrakul, Copter, and Reflector Mage out of the way, Ross Merriam can crack his knuckles and do some fun stuff! Like seeing how many counters he can possibly put on a single monster. Or like winning the game with a giant robot. See? Magic is great.

Ross VS. Brad: W/B Aggro VS. Mardu Vehicles!

How messed up would Aether Revolt Standard have been without the triple bannings of Reflector Mage, Smuggler’s Copter, and Emrakul, the Promised End? Ross Merriam and Brad Nelson bring you a Copter-on-Copter battle from the future that was, with Ross’s W/B Aggro taking on Brad’s Mardu Vehicles!

The Big Implications Of The Ban Announcement

We knew it was coming, but we didn’t know just how big the changes would be! Michael Majors has never been on level one, and he’s looking at these bans with a careful eye in an effort to glean a lot of subtext about future Standard. Read on!

Dear Azami: Broken Glass And Vials Smashed

It’s possible the next dedicated Commander product will be on shelves before we even make a dent in all the amazing interactions the last one gave us! Levi Byrne helps a reader smash vials left and right in the penultimate Dear Azami!

Are You Fans Of The Bans?

Instead of arguing, CVM is all about discussion! Everyone expected something to happen, but nobody expected this! So how do you feel about Standard and Modern now? Chris gives his take and asks for yours!