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September ’20 Brew Report, Pt. 1: Future Flavors

Jordan Boisvert — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 16:00:21 +0000

New sets always inspire brewing and changes of pace, but this month, I was pleased to see that some of the ideas I've had about future metagame developments seem to be more realistic than I'd thought! If these decks have legs now, imagine what they'll look like when Zendikar Rising drops... maybe quite similar, and […]

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Modern Horizons: Preliminary Metagame Impacts

David Ernenwein — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 17:00:36 +0000

It's been an interesting week for Modern players. Not only has an entire supplemental product targeted at us been revealed, but there was also a Modern Grand Prix, with SCG Regionals and a three-GP month coming up. It's a good time to be invested in and covering Magic's best format. Today, we'll see how the spoiled […]

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A Complicated Metagame: Invitational Weekend Update

David Ernenwein — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 17:00:18 +0000

Once again, it's time to update my paper metagame table! Magic's had a busy weekend---between the SCG Invitational and the World Magic Cup, it was easy to miss the Roanoke Open. Which feels very odd to say, considering how popular and pervasive Opens are, but it's the truth. Not that it matters; the data it […]

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Where Is My Mind: Brewing BW Shadow Pox

Jordan Boisvert — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 16:38:41 +0000

Confession time: one of my pet cards is Smallpox. That might seem weird coming from an attacks-loving aggro-control enthusiast such as myself, but Smallpox has a lot of the elements I prize in a card: its symmetry makes it innocuous; its floor is low, and its ceiling miles high; its conditions ask pilots to build […]

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Midrange Languishes: Analyzing SCG Orlando

Trevor Holmes — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 16:45:47 +0000

This week, I want to focus on SCG Orlando. While it’s true that Kaladesh will be out shortly, bringing with it a possible shift in Modern, discounting a whole high-level event’s worth of data due to the fact that the format might change soon sounds a little foolhardy to me. I plan on discussing Kaladesh spoilers […]

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