SCG Top 8: August 22, 2016
What a week! Between the three days of the Season Two #SCGINVI in New Jersey and the latest Conspiracy: Take the Crown spoilers, there’s a lot to take in. Danny West has your Top 8 guide to what happened and what’s next!
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Conspiracy: Take The Crown Finance Review
Conspiracy: Take the Crown is loaded with powerful new Eternal cards, new planeswalkers for Commander and Cube play, and reprints the world has been waiting for! How much will Show and Tell and Berserk drop if they drop at all? What’s the ceiling on Recruiter of the Guard? What are foil conspiracy cards worth? Go Chas go!
Brad VS. Majors: Bant Humans VS. Grixis Pact
Brad Nelson marshals the best of Humanity from across several planes. Michael Majors has…a tiny orange kitten. And a Grixis deck with Demonic Pact to back it up. Enjoy this spicy Standard clash ahead of #SCGRICH on Labor Day Weekend!
Save The Queen
Conspiracy: Take the Crown is a Commander dream set! New legends, new multiplayer mechanics, and of course, one lady who wants the city to herself! Bennie Smith serves the queen with his new royally awesome decklist!
This Year On The Pro Tour
Pro Tour Champion Ari Lax has a lot of accolades, but this year was an uphill battle. Though he’s still a Gold pro, he knows the learning process never stops. If you want to learn the next step to Magic mastery, you can’t do better than Ari!
Battling With And Against Dredge
Tom Ross put up yet another SCG Tour® top 8 last weekend with the new powerful Dredge deck in Modern! Is this deck powerful enough to fight through hate? Is it the best deck for the format at #SCGINVI? The Boss has the strats!
Todd VS. Brad: B/G Delirium VS. Temur Emerge
It’s a battle of Pro Tour Eldritch Moon Top 8 decks! Will Todd Anderson claim victory with B/G Delirium, or will Brad Nelson (Temur) Emerge victorious? Check out this fierce Standard battle ahead of the #SCGINVI weekend!
Assassins Of Tresserhorn
Sheldon Menery has a lot on the table this week! He’s got a special story about the origins of Commander as a format, a new decklist, and a card he thinks more of you should be playing!
Daily Digest: Thinking Out Cloud
Cards from the past never truly go away, do they? Ross Merriam is putting up his umbrella so that death doesn’t rain down upon him at the #SCGINVI!
Game Day Fever
Fevered Visions is officially off the bench and into Standard’s top tier! But what else can we do with the little enchantment that could? Matt Higgs brews up some ideas for #SCGINVI Standard!
Mastering Bant Company
GerryT had a strong run at Grand Prix Portland last weekend, and he did it with one of the format’s most powerful decks! Check out the finer details of piloting the deck that this format very well may be remembered by years from now! Are you on Bant Company for the #SCGINVI?
Video: Kiki Evolution In Modern!
Ari Lax pilots the newest innovation in Modern creature combo! Will Eldritch Evolution be good enough to make the cut in this build at #SCGINVI this weekend?
Grand Prix Standard Analysis
The two big Standard Grand Prix from last weekend told very different stories about the #SCGINVI format! Adrian Sullivan compiles the data to give us a better view of where this format stands!
Creating Bedlam At #SCGINVI
Todd Anderson won the Standard Classic at #SCGNY with what many believe to be the most underrated deck in the format! But honestly? Todd isn’t sure it’s good enough. Read about how he’s evolving the concepts set forth by this powerful deck for #SCGINVI!
Video: Mono-Blue Prison In Standard!
Day’s Undoing has undone a lot of Emrakul, the Promised End’s work in the current Standard metagame! But does this deck have enough game to take #SCGINVI? Our resident Pro Tour Champ investigates!