Brad VS. Todd: U/B Control VS. Abzan Aggro
With a big weekend ahead of us for Standard, Brad and Todd battle with two decks that are both well-positioned to handle G/R Devotion to see how well they can handle each other.
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Modern After Charlotte And Standard Moving Forward
Grand Prix Charlotte showcased some interesting and powerful new decks, and have helped to further convince Brian to just go broken in the format as long as they’ll let him. Now, what to play in Standard this weekend?
Collected Thoughts
Brian looks back on his performance at Grand Prix Charlotte and what led him to his Bant Company deck when a Wild Nacatl/Collected Company deck ended up tied for Top Eight.
Video: G/R Devotion In Standard
Pro Tour Champion Ari Lax takes G/R Devotion out for an intensive test session to prepare for Grand Prix Providence this weekend!
Video: Temur Artifacts In Standard
With the Standard metagame seeming to be very well-defined, Gerry wanted to try out a new archetype to see how good it is – check out this unusual Temur deck based around powerful artifact interactions.
Building A Battleship: Heroic In Standard
In search of a few clutch Pro Points at Grand Prix Providence, Todd has been honing his weapon of choice – Bant Heroic – building in more power and finding the right sideboard plans to earn him the wins he needs.
Coming Full Circle In Modern
The Boss has had some Modern adventures over the past two weeks, and he recounts the Season Two Invitational Weekend and Grand Prix Charlotte and the variety of decks he played across multiple events.
Brad VS. BBD: G/R Devotion VS. Abzan Control
Brad and BBD gear up for a big Standard weekend by playing through one of the format’s most important matchups, battling format-boogeyman G/R Devotion against the tried-and-true Abzan Control.
Video: Naya Company In Modern
Brian Kibler may be the Dragonmaster, but in Modern these days he’s been mastering Collected Company instead. In today’s video, he tries that out in an aggressive shell along with some of his favorite beatdown creatures!
Modern Aftermath
With Grand Prix Charlotte in the books, Gerry takes a look back at his deck for the event, the other directions he was thinking about trying out, and what the results from that tournament mean for the metagame as a whole.
Video: W/U Heroic In Standard
Heroic decks are always floating around the Standard metagame, usually without very much attention paid to them. Todd takes W/U Heroic out for a spin in preparation for Grand Prix Providence!
9th At GP Charlotte With Grixis: Home At Last!
After finishing 13-2 at Grand Prix Charlotte and only missing the Top Eight on tiebreakers, Patrick Chapin looks under the hood of the Grixis Control deck that brought him so close.
Video: Modern Lantern Mill
With an unusual-looking artifact-based Prison deck making it to the top sixteen at Grand Prix Charlotte this weekend, Sam just had to take it out for a test drive and see how it works.
Welcome To The Magic Optimization Matrix
Meet MOM, your friendly computer-based happiness optimization matrix that knows you well enough to tell you not to abandon Jeskai in order to play Splinter Twin, and unfortunately knows you’re too stubborn to take good advice when it’s given to you, Shaun.
Standards Past, Standard Present And Standard’s Future
Ari takes a look at the things that truly matter in our present Standard format and how they evolved to this point in order to divine the likely future developments and get out ahead of them.