Welcome to the third week of the new Modern. For many of us this is probably the most significant week simply because now is when the new IQ season really kicks off. Yes, there were a few IQ’s last week concurrent with the Baltimore Open, but this is the week that stores nationally really started to host tournaments, allowing Modern […]

Congratulations to Jeff Case for being the first Volunteer Contributor on Modern Nexus! If you’d like to submit your own work, just head over to the Contribute Articles page to get started. This weekend was sunny, warm, and, here in the Northeast, the first real weekend of spring. The weather seemed to be an indicator […]

Mike Lanigan runs back his Aristocrats 3.0 deck from last week for a TCG Bronze event and makes finals again. Read on for the report.

Mike Lanigan took his “Aristocrats 3.0” build to the Platinum TCQ in Ohio last weekend and rode it all the way to 2nd place. Read on for his tournament report.

Mike Lanigan analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of a version of The Aristocrats he played at a recent PTQ, and suggests a few alterations.

Last week Mike described how he choose a deck for a full weekend of Standard tournaments, including the WMCQ and a PTQ. Today he describes the games in detail and tells us how he fared.

Mike regales us with another tale from the world of the PTQ circuit. This time he waxes philosophical about handling loss before describing his recent updates to Wolf Run Blue.

Join Mike as he relates his experiences this PTQ season. In the first PTQ he narrowly misses top eight with an innovative list that aims to ramp into Frost Titan.

Mike Hawthorne places 34th place in SCG’s Open Legacy tournament in Indianapolis, piloting New Horizons. Recap his nine rounds, learn a bit on sideboarding, and see the tweaks he’d make to the deck.