Pro Tour Hall of Famer Patrick Chapin is ready to crush this format! With SCG Columbus on everyone’s radar for the first layer of the Pro Tour metagame, Patrick is going to spend all week long building every kind of deck you can possibly build with Aether Revolt! Which one are you sleeving up?
Do you play aggro decks? Are you a dedicated control mage? Why do these distinctions matter? How much can they actually change week-to-week? Mrs. Mulligan has an excellent study on this questions here!
The downside to new play, new decks, new contenders when bans happen is that the value of cards take a serious hit! Not just that, but this announcement means a lot in terms of what Standard’s philosophy will be going forward! Chas Andres explains just how huge this shift is!
Join Cedric Phillips for some exciting announcements to changes to SCG Tour Points in 2017!
There are obvious combos that will shape the new Standard format, but Pro Tour Champ Ari Lax wants to find the synergies that aren’t in plain sight! Join him as he looks for rogue decks and interesting interactions for SCG Columbus!
It wouldn’t be a Friday the 13th without a scary premonition! This time, it’s Tom Ross with a solemn warning: even after the banning of Gitaxian Probe and Golgari Grave-Troll from Modern, Infect and Dredge remain powerful decks! Get updated lists from “The Boss” or ignore them at your peril!
The might-have-beens continue! While Todd Anderson’s W/R Vehicles deck uses the now-banned-in-Standard Smuggler’s Copter, Brad Nelson’s U/B Control deck is banning-free and ready to roll! If it can keep up with W/R Vehicles with Smuggler’s Copter, what could it do in the upcoming Aether Revolt metagame?
One color, no fuss! Watch Shaun McLaren take on the Mono-Blue Delver challenge in Modern with his latest Magic Online video! And yes, those are Gitaxian Probes! Judge!
Control partisan Shaheen Soorani no longer feels locked out of Standard! The triple banning has removed previously insurmountable obstacles to a true control deck, and he’s ready to brew with Aether Revolt!
Got the post-banning blues in Modern? Look on the bright side! With control archetypes ready to shine once more, Ross Merriam has just the list for you!
Ready for the Prerelease this weekend? Not until you’ve read Ask a Judge, you’re not! Get the rulings you need to know from Paul Baranay and get to know his guest, Level Two Judge Jeff Higgins!
Remember the last time bans happened? Oh man! It’s been a minute! Jim Davis isn’t interested in just re-reading the same news over and over; he’s already planning what it means for the SCG Columbus metagame next weekend!
With the triple banning in Standard, which cards gain the most in the upcoming Aether Revolt metagame? GerryT is throwing his lot in with Tezzeret the Schemer, and today he brings you Standard brews from Aggro to Midrange, Control to Combo, and a couple that are just plain hard to categorize! SCG Columbus, here we come!
With Aether Revolt coming soon, Bennie Smith checks out its themes for Commander and gives updates on Modern Necrotic Ooze and Standard Mono-Green Ramp!
It wouldn’t be review season without a tribute to red! Adrian Sullivan checks out the red cards of Aether Revolt and gives his verdict on the Standard must-plays, the unplayable, and everything in between! Fair warning: one of his ratings just might “Shock” you…
