This week Adam takes a step back and examines the fundamentals to designing and tuning your own deck’s sideboard, including the type of cards to keep in mind when analyzing the meta and deciding on your own 15.
Duress
This week Paul shares a list that exploits the synergy between Courser of Kruphix and Underworld Connections before putting the game away with Rakdos’s Return. Is this the best of the BGx options in Standard? Paul thinks so.
Mike Lanigan breaks down the Modern Event Deck, discussing what’s financially relevant and the modifications that will be required to make it playable in Modern tournaments.
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!
Mike Lanigan is equipped with a brand new Standard brew, G/W Constellation. He shares his thought process building it and the final result.
Magic Online’s Player of the Year and 24th place finisher at PT:Atlanta brews up a Midrange Gifts deck that puts up good results. The list could be tweaked in a dozen different directions–can you find a good improvement to it?
Mike Lanigan provides his recent thoughts on G/B Dredge, before recounting his rounds at a TCG Player tournament with Mono-Blue Devotion.
When it comes to the topic of sideboarding, you have to prepare for almost anything. Ryan highlights some strange scenarios and offers insight into the question “What do I do when…?”
Mike Lanigan covers a variety of topics in today’s article, including an update of Standard Dredge with the new Journey cards.
While Journey Into Nyx is unlikely to unseat the top decks in Standard, it does enable a few new strategies. Mike Lanigan investigates.
Ryan launches into another round of spoilers, focusing on a few key cards, including one innocuous-looking 2-drop you might have overlooked.
Ryan examines the first waves of spoilers for potential gems.