Beat Them Or Join Them?
How often have you struggled between picking up the accepted “best” deck in a format as opposed to a deck that beats the “best” deck? Ari Lax explains how to make this difficult decision as only a Pro Tour Champion can!
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Looking Forward To #PTOGW And #SCGRegionals
Modern is on everyone’s minds for #SCGRegionals and #PTOGW this weekend, especially Pro Tour competitor and SCG Tour® veteran Ross Merriam. See him breakdown the format before your big Modern weekend!
Preparing For #PTOGW
Recently crowned Super Sunday Series Champion Sam Black has influenced a lot of Pro Tour champions and a lot of formats. See if the insane deck he almost pulled the trigger on for #PTOGW is right for you at #SCGRegionals!
Standard As We Know It For #SCGCOL
#SCGATL is in the records and #SCGCOL will largely be dictated by what we saw in our first glimpse of Oath of the Gatewatch. The metagame breakdown is incredibly unique, and Pro Tour Champion Patrick Chapin explains why in this detailed analysis!
How To Select Decks In New Standard Formats
Metagaming is a vital skill, but what do you do when you have almost no idea what a tournament field will look like? Oath of the Gatewatch Standard is still brand new, and Chris Andersen wants to tell you how to pick a deck for #SCGCOL!
Feeling Lost In Standard
With this much shifting around in the Standard format, Sam Black feels lost – when will the dynamic changes stop and the format settle into one place? While he waits, he has a few ideas for what the next gyration might look like in order to get out ahead of it.
The Sixteen Best Decks In Standard
While it’s hard to be sure, it looks like Standard may start cycling back through the previous iterations of its metagame rather than continuing to break out in new directions… so GerryT shares his look at the format’s top decks to prepare for your next event!
What To Expect At Pro Tour Fate Reforged
Gerry Thompson is a stone-cold master, and he breaks down the entire Modern format in full detail just in time for Pro Tour Fate Reforged this weekend!
Revamping My Favorite Vintage Brews For MODO
Brian has tracked the digital Vintage metagame, and having stalked his prey carefully with data and spreadsheets it is time to build new (or old favorite!) decks to dissect it. Workshops are on top – and that kind of predictability creates its own opportunity.
Know Your Enemy
Tom has some advice to anyone trying to beat the best deck in the format: first, you have to walk a mile in their shoes. Then, and only then, will you know how to properly club them over the head. Sage advice for #SCGWOR this weekend!
Modern Overview: Summer 2014
With PTQ season heavily upon us, Ari takes a look at the current Modern format and breaks down the top archetypes: why to play them, how to beat them, and what they’re best against.
MTGO Vintage
With the Power Nine now legal on MTGO, Brian checks in on the digital metagame’s development in search of sweet tech and with an eye out for developing metagame trends and cycles.
Metagaming Modifications Part Two
In part two of Brad’s continuing series, he looks at a specific metagame on just one week and in just one place – last weekend at Grand Prix Chicago – to examine the complex interactions a metagame has over the course of a long event.
Punish Them!
Having just completely shifted the Standard metagame almost single-handedly, “The Boss” is here to put his thumb on the scale for Modern. People are paying a lot of life for their mana in Modern, which makes it much easier to beat them with a solid aggressive deck… of which Tom has a few choices to share.
Slivers
Patrick Chapin, “The Innovator,” has been trying to find a way to beat Black Devotion, U/W Control, and Mono-Red with the same deck… and is curious whether building your deck around a certain tribe will hit those goalposts after the release of Magic 2015.