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Fact Or Fiction: Banning Nothing In Modern Was Correct

Join BBD and The Dragonmaster, Brian Kibler, for our latest installment of SCG’s latest debate series! They discuss the #MTGHOF, yesterday’s Banned and Restricted announcements, Magic Origins and more!

Fact Or Fiction: Banning Nothing In Modern Was Correct

Join Michael Majors and Ross Merriam for our latest installment of SCG’s latest debate series! They discuss the #MTGHOF, yesterday’s Banned and Restricted announcements, Magic Origins and more!

Daily Digest: Kutting Up The Competition

In today’s Daily Digest, Gerry looks at a few efforts to focus more on Primeval Titan instead of Scapeshift.

Video: Merfolk In Modern

After making fun of it for a very long time, Ari has seen just enough success for the Modern Merfolk archetype to pique his curiosity. He takes the deck out for a spin in order to figure out whether or not it’s improved and form a new opinion.

Origins Brew Review

Carsten Kotter is here to share his multi-format look at Magic Origins, going through the set for playable cards in Modern, Vintage, and Legacy as well as intriguing cards for Standard.

Daily Digest: Behold, The Tribrid

Mashing two decks together gets you a hybrid – so mashing three decks together deserves its own special name too, right? And speaking of special, the number of different ways this deck pressures you and might just kill you is pretty darn special.

Video: Dredgevine In Modern

Sam Black wants to explore some more of the Modern format, and today he gives Golgari Grave-Troll a visit since he’s had such great results with the card in the past. Check out his latest video as he takes Dredgevine out for a spin!

Daily Digest: Next Level Tron

Tron is one of those Modern archetypes that doesn’t shift very much, and it’s hard to find a new angle of attack either with it or against it. Today’s deck of note has managed to find a compelling argument for a different build – check it out!

8-Rack In Modern

8-Rack is an often-underestimated deck archetype in Modern, and those are exactly the sorts of decks Tom “The Boss” Ross likes to pick up and beat you with. Check out his thoughts on the archetype and how it fits into the format and give it a try yourself!

Video: Grixis Control In Modern

While we all wait for Magic Origins to make its way to Magic Online, Todd takes the opportunity to test out a few tweaks to Patrick Chapin’s Grixis Control deck from Grand Prix Charlotte.

Video: Esper Gifts In Modern

Modern is a surprisingly wide-open format right now, and Gerry takes a powerful deck from that second or third tier of archetypes, Gifts Control, to test out in today’s video!

Daily Digest: The Aristocrats, Act VIII

We’ve seen all sorts of powerful and popular Standard decks make their way into Modern, and now it’s The Aristocrats’s turn. Check out one clever mage’s plan to sacrifice things for fun and profit!

I’m Kiki For CoCo-Twin!

It’s amazing how complicated a Modern deck can be if you let it, and Anthony’s new favorite deck in the format is a complex mix of nested dependencies and hidden opportunity costs that is just a real deckbuilder’s paradise to work on.

Video: Abzan Aggro In Modern

Brian continues his quest to build a strong Modern deck around honest green creatures, and today’s video showcases an aggressive take on Abzan that really puts Siege Rhino to work as well as take advantage of the power of Wilt-Leaf Liege!

Daily Digest: Black Zoo

Zoo decks have always been assumed to be green, for whatever reason, but if the metric you’re shooting for is not “raw size” but instead favors a different characteristic, another color might rise to prominence. Check out this unusual take at Tribal Zoo!