With two rotations and a Modern PPTQ season on the horizon, 2016 will present different challenges than 2015. Ryan explains his investment strategy for the coming year.

Chaz provides a brief recap of Pro Tour BFZ to draw conclusions about Standard specs, and looks forward to the approaching Modern season.

For those that have been reading my column for the past few months, you might have heard mention of “context” a few times. I’ve become thoroughly convinced that context is the single most important factor that goes into determining everything we see, from decklists to sideboards to tournament winning lists to archetype tier changes and […]

Hey guys! Welcome to Episode 4 of our Modern Nexus Video Series, where we pick a sweet list and run it through some matches on Magic Online. This week we have our very own Retreat to Coralhelm/Knight of the Reliquary combo deck; Knightfall! We talked about this list and gave a walkthrough and some strategy […]

Modern can generate some insane hype around new decks or technology. Today Sheridan looks at two decks that were conspicuously absent from SCG States and evaluates their future prospects.

Hello once again Nexites, it is I your resident editor stepping out from behind the curtain to enlighten you while Trevor recovers from a whirlwind road trip and finishes recording his video series (going up tomorrow). To that end, let’s talk about SCG States. First of all, I was a little surprised SCG held two State […]

My love affair with Tarmogoyf began while I wasn’t playing Magic at all. But “you never really quit,” and as winter ebbed in 2009, I found myself pouring over Legacy decklists to see how the game had changed since I’d begun my hiatus triggered by Kamigawa block (specifically Umezawa’s Jitte) leaving Standard. Anyone who played a […]

Battle For Zendikar is finally live on Magic Online, which means two things. 1) I’m out of tickets, and 2) we can finally grind some matches with new updates! I’ve got a lot of things in the works, and expect some B/W Tokens and Bring to Light articles and videos coming soon, but for now […]

The new Jace is the hottest breakout card on the MTG market, but it’s not all Standard hype. Jace is just realizing his Modern potential and the ceiling is high on this powerful planeswalker.

Greetings Modern Nexites! I have seen most of you before, but unless you pay attention to the comments you have no idea who I am. I am David Ernenwein and for the past several months I have been the content editor of this illustrious site. Normally I stay behind the scenes but today I have […]

Sometimes it’s worth remembering where you came from and seeking knowledge and tech from the past. The 2015 World Championship brought unexpected decks to the forefront with Living End and Bogles making waves almost out of nowhere. While those decks appear to have had their moment and then quietly vanished Yuuya Watanabe’s UW Control shell […]

Just because we’re in a Modern off-season doesn’t mean we can’t be excited about weekend tournaments. SCG Atlanta came and went, and while Jeskai Black and Abzan Megamorph clogged up Standard’s top tables, the Modern field looked far more open. Gruul Zoo! Allies! UR Storm! Restore frikkin Balance! I’m always hesitant to extrapolate too much […]

In “High Water Fire Mark,” Mike Flores pays respects to the great unsung quality of quality creatures: toughness. He identifies toughness as supremely important to successful deckbuilding designs, writing, “In many constructed formats, we can point to a particular number, say two or three, with the knowledge that that number represents the amount of damage done […]