Pro Tour Champion Shaun McLaren almost got himself another Pro Tour top 8! How did he do it? By being the bad guy! See the improvements Shaun made to everyone’s favorite hated Standard archetype before you hit #SCGNY’s Classic!
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!
Want a definitive breakdown of the decks that rocked the Pro Tour? Cedric Phillips is granting your wish! Check out his detailed study of what he likes, loves, and loathes from the decks that were all over the stage on Sunday!
Michael Majors has been banging the emerge drum since spoiler season, and he’s finally getting his due! The Pro Tour metagame showed a variety of ways to get the strategy into the top tables of Standard, and Michael Majors is ready to outline the future of this very controversial mechanic! #SCGNY’s Standard Classic is on the horizon!
The new big Standard target is the largest target of them all: Emrakul, the Promised End! How will the metagame react to the first lady of Magic destruction? Ross Merriam thinks you’ve got to throw her off her game before she gets anywhere near the battlefield, and he’s evaluating the best ways to do so for the #SCGNY Standard Classic!
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?
A truly diverse Pro Tour Top 8 means the format is perfectly reasonable, right? Pro Tour Champion Ari Lax isn’t so sure. He learned a lot about the format in his team’s testing, and he’s convinced we’re seeing the beginning of what will end up being a historically dangerous environment! Read his analysis here!
Does anything shake up the Magic market quite like a bunch of breakout Pro Tour cards? Fortunately for us, Chas Andres has followed the ups and downs throughout the big weekend, and he’s giving you all the trends and more in his latest column!
The Innovator has been studying the results of the Pro tour with extreme focus, and he has a lot of verdicts about where the format is going toward #SCGNY’s Standard Classic! Will Bant Company come back to the top of the mountain? Will B/W Control pick up in popularity? Is Emrakul consistently beatable? The answers are here!
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!
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!
Todd Anderson is keeping it simple this week: Mono-Red to make his opponent mono-dead. His foe? Brad Nelson, packing the dynamic duo of Collected Company and Thalia’s Lieutenant. Who will win this clash of speed against power ahead of #SCGRegionals?
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!
The SCG Players’ Champion is not about to just bow down to the deck he helped make so popular! #SCGRegionals is this weekend, the Pro Tour is this weekend, and Jim Davis is ready to help you in your quest to take down public enemy number one!
Todd Anderson and Ross Merriam have spent a lot of time on the VS Series, but never one on one! And they are making it count! These two decks will help define the Pro Tour and the #SCGRegionals metagame this weekend, and you need to be ready!
