Vintage Champs is right around the corner, and it’s never been a better time to build a gauntlet. Scott Fielder covers the essential decks to test against to prepare for the current meta.
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Scott Fielder provides a deck primer and sideboarding guide for RUG Delver in Vintage. This deck has been tearing it up on MTGO, and is certainly one that should be on your radar.
Today Mike Lanigan looks at underplayed Modern cards. These cards are undeniably powerful, but for whatever reason have yet to catch on. Mike makes the case for jamming them in decks and picking some up as specs.
Ryan shores up some new revisions to his Vintage Grixis Keeper deck. With a format full of blue decks, Ryan’s list can competitively fit any metagame with only a few tweaks.
Adam goes over results from the first Magic Online Vintage Premier Event, noting a few interesting Vintage card choices.
Adam explains the art and science behind transformational sideboards using two historic combo decks, and discusses how the strategy applies today. Don’t miss this article!
Scott Fielder follows up his first article with a more in-depth look at strategy with Dredge. If you want to master the nuances of the deck, this is an excellent place to start.
Vintage is an exciting format, but sometimes daunting to newcomers. Join new writer Scott Fielder as he guides you through one of Vintage’s marquee decks, Dredge.
The Modern sideboard has a lot of room for flex. Adam outlines his favorite overlooked options for the format and identifies a few you may want to consider.
This year’s Modern season departs with one last huzzah, GP San Diego. Mike Lanigan looks over decklists and discusses the last-minute developments.
Deathrite Shaman has already splashed down hard in Standard and even more so in Modern. This week Ryan crafts a BUG Legacy deck around the powerful one-drop, a list featuring some very interesting inclusions and omissions.
Grand Prix: Chicago was this past weekend and the format was Modern. How good for us! Modern moves a lot of card prices, even though it doesn’t get played that much. It’s the reason that Remand and Kitchen Finks are worth so much; why Path to Exile pushes $5. The PTQ season is coming up and Modern cards are going to be in demand for awhile. With continued WOTC support, with Modern Masters, with shocklands being reprinted, this format is coming together… if it can deal with Jund.
Jason follows up on the Jon Elden story with an invitation for him to tell his story, reviews the usual reddit shenanigans and waxes poetic over Sam Black’s new Legacy brew.