TagModern

Your Guide To Jeskai Nahiri

Modern doesn’t have a “best” deck right now, but SCG Players’ Champion Jim Davis knows the one he’d rather be piloting! #SCGNY is on the way, and Jim has a definitive guide to playing what may be the greatest control strategy in the entire format!

Crazy Eights

Tom “The Boss” Ross makes a lot of top 8s for certain. But today he’s making a few in a different way! He’s talking about his favorite current Standard and Modern decks and then some in this can’t-miss #SCGNY preview piece!

The Boss VS. Ross: Bant Retreat VS. Kiki Evolution

Let the creatures and combos fly! Will Tom “The Boss” Ross use Knight of the Reliquary to force his foe to make a hasty retreat, or will Ross Merriam’s Eldritch Evolution toolbox deliver all the answers? Check it out ahead of the #SCGNY Modern Open on Saturday!

Gerry VS. Todd: Jeskai Control VS. Dredge

GerryT playing Jeskai Control in Modern? No surprise there. But Todd Anderson’s put up the Temur Box in favor of…Dredge?! Who’ll win this clash between a classic control deck and a Classic-winning combo build ahead of the #SCGNY Modern Open?

Daily Digest: The Modern Cockroach

Someday when Emrakul has consumed all Multiverse life and every archetype and card is reduced to dusty smoldering nothing, this Modern deck will still be alive. At #SCGNY, it may be the deck stepping on you!

Is It Time For Dredge To Win?

Hang out in the Pro Tour afterglow all you want; Todd Anderson is ready for #SCGNY Modern weekend! Believe it or not, the Temur master is thinking of trading in his tried and true Delvers for a lot of unfair replacement effects! Golgari Grave-Troll is unbanned, right? Let’s start abusing it!

The Most Underrated Decks In Modern

SCG Tour ®star Todd Stevens cannot contain his excitement about #SCGNY and a return to Modern! See the decks he feels need more attention going into this weekend!

Fact Or Fiction: The Great Pro Tour Debate!

It’s the series you can’t get enough of! We’ve separated all of the Pro Tour tech, the top #SCGNY Modern contenders, and a lot of debatable statements into two piles; it’s up to Tom “The Boss” Ross and Ross Merriam to sort them out!

The Boss VS. Todd: Merfolk VS. Temur Delver

It’s a Modern clash ahead of #SCGNY! Will Tom “The Boss” Ross lay down the law with the mono-blue power of Merfolk, or will Todd Anderson, fresh off an SCG Classic Top 16 with a Temur Delver deck drawn from his “Temur Box,” run the list back for another victory?

The SCG Top 8: August 8th

We’ve got Pro Tour results, a big month of Modern beginning with #SCGNY, and a lot of great stories leading into the upcoming Invitational! What are you most excited about when it comes to the Magic Multiverse?

Modern Month Continues!

Want more info on how to break into Modern so that you can crush #SCGNY this weekend? Jennifer Long has the next installment of her series on getting you ready!

Ross VS. Todd: Jeskai Control VS. Five-Color Aggro

It’s a new classic VS. new hotness! Will Ross Merriam’s Jeskai Control with Nahiri, the Harbinger take the day, or will Todd Anderson win the day with a five-colors-of-value deck that made the Top 16 of a recent Modern Classic? Watch and learn ahead of #SCGNY!

A Tale Of Three Decks

You have one last look at the thoughts of Gerry Thompson before you take on #SCGRegionals! He’s got his deck choice lined up and ready to go, but he’s sharing some detailed thoughts on his new Modern build, Osyp’s G/W Tokens win, and of course, how he feels about Bant Company’s prevalence!

Big Lessons From The Big Formats

Back-to-back Invitational Champion Tom Ross got to see and play a lot of different Magic formats last weekend! Each of his experiences gave him valuable info for the upcoming #SCGNY as well as #SCGRegionals weekend!

Insane Brews Created With Friends

Chris Lansdell can’t do all the genius by himself! This week he’s sharing some of his best kept secrets and opening up his deck vault to bring you inspiration for #SCGNY and beyond!