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Lessons From The Magic Online Championship Sidelines

Dom Harvey found plenty of note at the Magic Online Championship. Get his impressions of Vintage Cube, Pioneer, and Modern.

Jacob Wins 2019 Magic Online Championship

Longtime Magic Online grinder comes out on top of tri-format event.

Making Lives Difficult With Azorius Death & Taxes (Yorion) In Modern

“Somehow, adding a color and twenty cards to Death & Taxes made it better.” Get Ari Lax’s insights into the surprising Azorius Death & Taxes (Yorion).

How Cleansing Wildfire Turbocharged Jeskai Control In Modern

Predicting Cleansing Wildfire as a Modern hit is among Ben Friedman’s best calls. How did he do it, and what does it tell us about future cards?

Is Modern Magic’s Most Wide-Open Competitive Format?

Modern offers a wide-open field this week, with our SCG creators recommending everything from aggressive decks to ramp and combo.

VS Live! Four-Color Ramp Faces The Modern Gauntlet

It’s a Modern Gauntlet as Corey Baumeister pilots Four-Color Ramp against Ross Merriam and three of the format’s top challengers.

Avoiding The Modern Deck Selection Trap

What’s the best way to use a powerful card or mechanic in Modern? Ross Merriam tells you which decks stand out from their peers.

Modern Has Never Been This Fun And Diverse Before

Michael Majors is marveling at how wide-open Modern is. He surveys the metagame’s spiciest lists to go 5-0 in Magic Online Leagues last week.

Everything I Know About Selesnya Company In Modern

Ari Lax offers an extensive primer on Selesnya Company in Modern, including card choices, mulligan decisions, and sideboarding plans.

VS Live! Modern Roulette

After some minor technical difficulties, VS Live! returns with six top-finishing Modern decks and three matchups chosen by the spin of a wheel.

Four-Color Copy Cat Is Ready To Take Over Modern

Four-Color Copy Cat is a powerful midrange deck with the threat of a combo finish. Ben Friedman highlights a build with Jegantha, the Wellspring.

Why Four-Color Control Is Now Modern’s Best Control Deck

Shaheen Soorani makes the most of Omnath, Locus of Creation with his latest build of Four-Color Control for a changing Modern metagame.

Are Uro And Omnath Modern’s New Destructive Duo?

Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath and Omnath, Locus of Creation are a deadly Modern duo, but other options abound. Seven SCG creators say what they’d play.

Evaluating The Options For Skyclave Apparition In Modern

Skyclave Apparition gives white decks in Modern a key option. But which decks use it the best? Ari Lax reviews the early lists putting up results.

Droppin’ Baums: Four-Color Copy Cat (Yorion) In Modern

Corey Baumeister pilots Four-Color Copy Cat (Yorion) in Modern on Magic Online.