Mike Lanigan presents a swath of interesting and powerful decks in Tiny Leaders as an introduction to the format. You’ll have to be prepared to face these staple generals.
Tidehollow Sculler
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.
Mike Lanigan reviews Journey Into Nyx with his pick for the top ten cards most likely to impact Standard.
Ryan shares the heartbreaking story of a friend who placed 2nd in PTQ’s on back-to-back weekends, and springboards from there into a conversation on special invites and the current ratings structure.
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.
Corbin Hosler offers a detailed breakdown of the Top 8 results from the Modern GP: Yokohama, and identifies several excellent opportunities for traders!
Mike Lanigan breaks down his deck choice for a local modern tourney and gives a tournament report on his first foray into modern.
Dissension, the third (and chronically-misspelled) set in Ravnica, showcased the remaining three guilds. We were introduced to the hellbent Rakdos, the gene-splicing Simic and the board-stalling Azorius guilds. Ravnica block is good for a couple money rares, but it didn’t go as casually deep as I thought it would when I first thought about the block. Dissension has a few nice tournament staples aside from the obvious shocklands – let’s take a look at the set!
Continuing our exploration of Legacy and the Color Wheel, we’ll move onto the series’ second installment. You’ll find all the White cards you can comfortably prepare to see in Legacy alongside the most prominent decklists harnessing the color.
Ian Ellis gives us a second opinion of a card that may be more Hype than Hope, offering a bit of a shield to those who do not follow the popular thought and illuminates the risks for those who support it.