Wizards has shown a willingness to take risks unbanning powerful cards in Modern. David asks which cards on the banned list may be the next candidate for release.
Modern
You may have noticed the lack of a new article for today. We’re still in the process of rearranging and organizing things, so I hope you’ll forgive us as we get situated. The rest of this week is slated for an update each day as normal, and next week you can expect the usual Monday […]
Shadows over Innistrad has already made huge waves in Standard. Today Sheridan investigates its impact in Modern so far and the early financial indications.
Some play Magic to win, and others play to have fun. Most players move up and down the spike scale depending on context—the casual nature of certain tournaments provides a perfect backdrop to test wacky ideas. With this principle in mind, I good-naturedly brought a neutered Eldrazi deck to FNM last week that splashed blue and green for playsets of Tarmogoyf, […]
Today I will be focusing on Grixis Control. Where it came from, the challenges it faces, how it can respond to the new Modern landscape we find ourselves in, and what role it will play moving forward. For those unfamiliar with my opinions on this deck, you can brush up here, here, and here. While […]
Can you believe it was only a month ago when we were picking through the scattered debris of our once beloved format? Or declaring one deck the first true Tier 0 overlord in Modern history? Following the April 4 banlist update, and the subsequent Modern events from April 8 until today, the horrors of Eldrazi […]
Welcome to the second week of the new Modern era! If the chatter in discussion threads and the various articles from the past week are any indication, everyone is happily brewing away with the new toys from Wizards. Control mages are eagerly waiting for Ancestral Vision to tick down and aggro players are happily ruining it by […]
David covers the Stock Watch for this month, influenced heavily by big changes to the Standard and Modern formats. He presents the biggest gainers and explains their rise.
Standard and Modern alike experienced a recent shake-up, to the benefit of the prepared. Brian scours both formats for the well- and poorly-positioned cards to be aware of.
Greetings, Nexites! Hopefully by now you’ve seen Sheridan’s announcement last week of the new partnership Modern Nexus is starting with Quiet Speculation. My name is Jason Schousboe and I’ll be taking over as Editor in Chief. A little about myself. My Magic career started about 10 years ago, and has seen me travel for a few […]
Ryan made the finals of an 84 person Modern tournament this weekend with Delver, and has a tournament report and thoughts on the format to share.
The April 4 unbans have all eyes on the new toys for control archetypes, but Sheridan is here to remind you to stay aggressive, proactive, and linear in Modern.
By now, we’ve all rejoiced at the Eye of Ugin banning and rejoiced even harder at Wizards’ reparations. It seems the banlist moderators understand that actions speak louder than words, so instead of issuing a plodding “we messed up!”, they actually gave us some new toys. Apology accepted! Readers know I’ve spent some fine afternoons […]
