The SCG Top 8: August 29, 2016
From triple Lightning Bolts to the second Conspiracy set, it’s been a wonderful and wild weekend of Magic! Danny West brings you the latest news from Indianapolis, Guangzhou, and Fiora in this week’s SCG Top 8!
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Re-Thinking Modern Finance
Reprint sets, a criminally diverse set of top tier decks, and new archetypes popping up in different parts of the world. How in the world can one keep up with the Modern marketplace? Chas Andres is here to help you do just that! If you’re still using old Modern metrics, you have a lot of catching up to do…
Understanding Toolbox Decks In Modern
Green Sun’s Zenith is off limits, but between Collected Company, Chord of Calling, and Eldritch Evolution Modern green decks are absolute metagame monsters at this point! Pro Tour Champion Ari Lax teaches you how to build, pilot, and win with a deck style that will be all over #SCGRICH’s Classic and beyond!
The Boss VS. Majors: W/R Humans VS. Temur Delirium
Today’s Standard face-off is full of surprises! Will Tom Ross and his W/R Humans deck from a prominent Japanese event defeat Michael Majors and his clever Temur Delirium list? Take notes ahead of #SCGRICH next weekend!
Only Human
Tom “The Boss” Ross, despite what his #SCGINVI records would indicate, is actually human. He has birthdays and everything. He recently celebrated a special Magic anniversary that reminded him of why he does what he does, and why he just can’t put those “poorly positioned” Humans decks back on the shelf!
Standard Success, Modern Woes
Shaheen Soorani crushed the Standard competition with a control deck that stands in the face of everything we know about the format! Modern? Not so much. Shaheen celebrates his big Standard achievement…and mourns Modern!
Daily Digest: That Shaheen Sheen
Modern is pretty uninteractive right now, but that doesn’t mean people have given up! This pilot has taken a cue from Shaheen Soorani’s playbook of control dominance!
Bedlam Reveler And The New Grixis
GerryT doesn’t care how many Infect, Affinity, and Tron decks people want to play in Modern; he’s going to keep playing his favorite deck! He just feels he needs to make it even better, and he’s doing that with a card on a lot of peoples’ radars these days: the very powerful (but very tricky) Bedlam Reveler!
Spy Kits 3-D
Why are all inspired Commander decks based on legends? Why can’t we build decks around cards that aren’t legendary but are seriously cool? Bennie Smith gets his espionage on this week!
Video: Abzan Evolution in Modern
No Collected Company, no Chord of Calling, just Eldritch Evolution and a ton of value! The Modern list Ari Lax plays went 5-0 in a recent Magic Online League. Can he match the feat? Get his insight ahead of #GPINDY and #SCGRICH!
Three Burn Decks, Three Reasons
Adrian Sullivan may dabble in control decks and the like, but he always returns to his home eventually: Burn baby Burn. See the different flavors of Burn he’s favoring currently and why he’s checking out different builds!
What Modern Could Be
Modern is a fascinating format. It has philosophies, advantages, and disadvantages we’ve never seen in a major Magic format before. And Todd Anderson isn’t thrilled with it. Read about the interactive ideal that Todd wants for the format…and why it’s the opposite of what we currently have!
Conspiracy: Take The Crown Commander Review!
Is there a cooler set for Commander than Conspiracy? Okay, maybe the Commander stuff, but we can all agree Conspiracy: Take the Crown is pretty cool! Sheldon grades each color’s contribution to the format!
Video: Allosaurus Elf Combo In Modern!
At the same time Elves was dominating #SCGINVI, Pro Tour Champion Shaun McLaren was working on improving the deck with dinosaurs! Shaun McLaren solves all of his problems by adding dinosaurs.
Which Standard Deck Are You?
Having trouble finding your Magic identity? Need a helping hand from some clickbait sensationalism? Pro Tour Shaun McLaren can help you find yourself! It begs the question, mages: Which Standard deck are you?