After featuring it in yesterday’s Daily Digest, GerryT felt compelled to work on Legacy this week and puts Monastery Mentor through its paces in the Gitaxian Probe/Cabal Therapy/Brainstorm format to see how crazy it really is.
Pro Tour Champion Shaun McLaren has just started streaming Magic Online matches, and has some thoughts to share about what it will take to make Magic more watchable and accessible to a broader audience.
A few new key spoilers today, as well as an announcement from WotC adjusting the number of rares and mythics printed in Magic Origins!
In his last article before a brief hiatus to go get married, Chas Andres takes an in-depth look at what we know about Magic Origins so far and what can be expected of its rares and mythics.
While all five of the flip-Planeswalkers from Magic Origins are exciting, Patrick “The Innovator” Chapin is particularly intrigued by the deeper potential to be found in Nissa, Vastwood Seer.
Todd and BBD begin battling with Magic Origins, showcasing the power of a few new cards as they update key archetypes from the last Standard format in search of the new best deck!
We’re just a few days away from (probably) having the full Magic Origins spoiler, but as of today’s update we know all but one Mythic and all but twenty Rares – check out Ben’s analysis of everything we learned over this weekend!
Magic Origins is proving to be both a flavorful and powerful set, and there are even a few potent Dragons for the Dragonmaster himself. Check inside for Brian’s first thoughts about the set and its iconic Planeswalkers!
Sam Black is well-known for his synergistic small-creature decks that generate incremental advantage, and this four-color Ghostway deck is right up his alley. Try it out this weekend at #SCGBALT’s $5,000 Modern Premier IQ!
There has been a huge surge in G/R decks in recent weeks, but as powerful as they are, all of them tend to have Abzan Aggro as a potential bad matchup. Brian beats down to prepare for #SCGBALT, check it out and give Abzan Aggro a try!
An intriguing new take on Abzan just won an MTGO PTQ, and to figure out how good it is, Brad Nelson and Tom “The Boss” Ross set it up in the Abzan mirror against a more dedicated control build. Is this the deck you should be playing at #SCGBALT? Find out inside!
Goblin Piledriver! We get three months of Piledriver + Rabblemaster in Standard, and forever in Modern. That shakes things up considerably for Magic Origins, don’t you think?
Being right is hard, and it is not something you can always control. Bias is just a natural fact of life, and it can get in the way of success. If you want to do well at Magic, don’t try to become more right – try to become less wrong.
With only middling results playing Jeskai Aggro at Grand Prix Providence, Todd updates the deck to take a more midrange stance and tests it out as he prepares for the main event at #SCGBALT!
Nourishing Shoal has recently made the Griselbrand/Goryo’s Vengeance archetype in Modern far more interesting, and in today’s video Ari puts Jacob Wilson’s 11th-place decklist from Grand Prix Copenhagen through its paces to prepare you for the $5,000 Modern Premier IQ at #SCGBALT.
