We’ve got a Player of the Year on staff just for moments like this! The Kaladesh mythics are huge, they’re fierce, and we don’t have long before they’re in our hands! Mike is going out on a well-informed limb to tell you which cards will dominate and which will fall by the wayside!
The Magic hive mind can solve formats faster than ever these days, but that comes with a huge cost! Mark Nestico has some of the best advice you’ll ever read this week! Think outside the box for #SCGORL!
When you want advice on aggro decks and Chandra strategies, you go to one player: Chris VanMeter! Let’s see what fresh fire CVM has cooked up for Kaladesh Standard!
Six Grand Prix winners, Kaladesh Previews continue, and Wizards reveals a Masterpiece! This is Split Second!
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…
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…
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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.
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!
