Todd Anderson spent the weekend amassing his record sixth Open Series victory! Coupled with his incredible 23 Open Series top 8s, you couldn’t ask for a better guide for poisoning #SCGWOR’s $5,000 Modern Premier IQ this weekend!
Sometimes a deck is so brilliant that even GerryT can’t figure out what to make of it. Today’s Daily Digest is one of a kind, and if you want to hunt a trophy at #SCGWOR’s $5,000 Modern Premier IQ, you can’t do it with a sweeter weapon than this one!
GerryT pays tribute to the tribe and the man of the moment! Don’t be caught offguard by this dangerous brood at the $5,000 Modern Premier IQ this weekend at #SCGWOR!
With the World Championships in the books, Adrian Sullivan pores over the data in order to figure out where the Standard metagame is going next… and examines recent Modern trends in order to figure out what to play at #SCGCIN this weekend!
While we may have a month still to wait before Battle for Zendikar arrives on shelves, it’s not too soon to “gather your Allies” and battle in Modern.
Magic Origins has quietly shaken up the settled Modern metagame, so Todd Anderson and Tom “The Boss” Ross explore some of the format’s new vistas to prepare for Modern’s return to the Open Series this weekend at #SCGCIN!
Want to get aggressive for #SCGCIN this weekend? Pro Tour Champion Ari Lax runs an unusual deck he uncovered in his #MTGChamps testing through its paces for the consideration of Modern aficionados everywhere!
The World Championships is Magic’s largest stage and its hardest tournament. Even getting into the event is a serious accomplishment, but Brad Nelson didn’t want to rest on his laurels when there were twenty-three other mages standing between him and the title.
With the StarCityGames Open returning to the Modern format this weekend in Cincinnati, BBD and Tom Ross playtest some of the format’s more intriguing decks by exploring the Merfolk versus Grixis Control matchup!
With Grixis decks of various stripes constituting several of Modern’s best decks, GerryT takes Grixis Control out for a spin to see how powerful Jace, Vryn’s Prodigy is in the format!
Experimenting with different cards in different formats is how we find new decks. As important as it is to remember to polish your experiments into fully-crafted decks before taking them to a major competition, remember this as well: nothing ventured, nothing gained.
It’s been quite a while since we’ve seen U/W Control at the top of the standings in Modern, but this weekend saw not one but two strong finishes for the archetype as it begins making its resurgence.
While Anthony had high hopes for the Season Three Invitational and took some big risks in order to try and capitalize on the state of the Legacy format, there are lessons to be learned even when things don’t quite go your way – and those lessons can thankfully be shared.
Jace, Vryn’s Prodigy has proven itself to be very strong in Standard, but the big question will be whether he can break out into older formats. Michael Majors’s Grixis Control deck may have just proven he can have a home in Modern!
Modern has been shifting steadily ever since Magic Origins entered the format, but one thing we didn’t expect to see was the return of a super-fast Elves combo deck. CVM shares his build from #SCGCHAR and his thoughts on how to improve it for future events.
