Split Second: September 12th, 2016
Six Grand Prix winners, Kaladesh Previews continue, and Wizards reveals a Masterpiece! This is Split Second!
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Video: Valakut Delirium In Modern!
It’s a Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle deck. It’s a Delirium deck. It’s … 117 cards?! Sam Black explains his latest Modern monstrosity, leaves online opponents befuddled, and possibly starts a big-deck trend for #SCGORL…
Daily Digest: Goryo’s Vengeance for Value
Not sold on the all-in Goryo’s Vengeance combo deck? Ross Merriam showcases the lighter, fluffier “value” version with more interaction ahead of #SCGORL! Be careful, though. Sometimes it just wins on turn 2 anyway…
Ross VS. Majors: R/G Through the Breach VS. Affinity
It’s a meeting of Modern menaces as Merriam and Majors battle ahead of #SCGORL! Will Ross triumph with R/G Through the Breach, or will Michael win the match with Affinity? Get ready for a five-game set full of broken starts and plenty of surprises!
Aggressive Kaladesh Decks
Magic Pro Tour Hall of Famer Patrick Chapin is back with his first round of Kaladesh brews! Today he looks at the aggro side of things, including multiple takes on Chandra, Torch of Defiance, one of the hottest planeswalker debuts in years!
They Call Me Mrs. Mulligan: A Guide To Mulligans
A poor mulligan decision can mean a game is over before it’s begun. But what goes into good mulligan decision-making? Mrs. Mulligan herself, Jennifer Long, is your guide to when six is better than seven!
Girlfriends And Glissa Lessons
Erik Tiernan isn’t alone in his quest for the perfect Commander experience! He discusses the pitfalls his Glissa Sunseeker deck encountered and how his girlfriend Liz is advancing her game!
Kaladesh Financial Set Review: Part 1
What cards in Kaladesh deserve your hard-earned cash? Magic finance expert Chas Andres opens his review of the set with his takes on the mythic rares revealed so far and his strategies for navigating the always-tumultuous preorder season!
10 Things You Will Do Wrong With Kaladesh
Ari Lax has seen this movie and he knows how it ends. He may not be able to stop you from making the ten mistakes he outlines, but once you’ve read his article on Chandra, Vehicles, Energy, Madcap Experiment, and more, you can’t say he didn’t warn you!
Kaladesh: Card-By-Card
Tom “The Boss” Ross is notorious for finding power in cards and synergies that the rest of the world is blind to! So what does he see in Kaladesh so far? Quite a bit, as it turns out! Tom lays out the cards he expects to work with in the coming months!
Split Second: September 9th, 2016
Loading Ready Run is Dubious, a Sealed challenge that spans Innistrad, and double Team Sealed Grand Prix events. It’s September 9th, I’m Jeremy Noell, and this is Split Second.
There’s No Tournament I Can’t Control
Shaheen Soorani ended his Standard season with yet another SCG Tour® top 8 showing! Although he was vanquished in the semifinal, Shaheen found a way to control the competition his way when all others said it couldn’t be done!
Ross VS. Todd: W/U Blink VS. Infect
It’s a Modern throwdown ahead of #SCGORL! Will Ross Merriam pilot an innovative W/U Blink deck from Grand Prix Guangzhou to victory, or will Todd Anderson and the Grand Prix Lille-winning Infect list give even more testimony to that deck’s dominance?
Daily Digest: Unfaeries
Bitterblossom has been unbanned in Modern for a while, so when are Faeries decks finally going to start winning tournaments? Ross Merriam thinks they’re going to soon! They just need to find a way to play dirty…
Evaluating The Important Cards In Kaladesh
Before you can dominate a format, you have to understand it; and before you can understand it, you have to analyze all of its moving pieces! Kaladesh has a ton of moving parts and pieces, and GerryT is just the player to show us how they’re going to shape the future of Standard!