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The first two of four Players Tour events, held on MTG Arena, kick off this weekend. With $600,000 in prizes across two weekends—June 13-14 and June 19-21—and a new Standard metagame to explore, the next two weekends of broadcasts will create…

It’s been several days since the Standard and Historic bans have taken place on MTG Arena, and we’ve tried our best to keep you up to date on the new metagame as it evolves. Last weekend, we saw Temur Reclamation…

Hello Planeswalkers from across the globe! The M21 spoiler season is still in progress, and it looks like this Core Set will impact Standard in a huge way. Many of the cards revealed so far appear to have at least…

Hello Planeswalkers from across the globe! As we wait for the complete M21 spoiler to be released, let’s continue our analysis of the cards already revealed. This Core Set is looking to be one of, if not the most, powerful…

Throughout my career, I’ve had a lot of success with tribal decks. I qualified for my first PT playing Merfolk in Modern, and I wrote a 6000 word primer on Humans a couple years back. Most importantly, I restarted my…

Hello Planeswalkers from all around the globe! It’s that time again: new set, new abilities, new cards, and a brand new Standard environment to explore. M21 is just around the corner, and I cannot be more excited to try some…

On Monday, the banned and restricted announcement impacted both the Standard and Historic formats, alongside changing the way the companion mechanic works (You pay 3 generic mana to put your companion into your hand from exile). The bans themselves did…

268 players have registered for the Red Bull Untapped Online Qualifier Spain, which will be our first look at the post-ban Standard metagame. After 8 rounds of Swiss, the top 16 players advanced to the second day of the tournament,…

On Monday, Wizards of the Coast hit us with the banned and restricted announcement. Fires of Invention and Agent of Treachery have been banned in Standard, while the companions have been nerfed pretty heavily (you now have to pay 3…

In consideration of current situations, Wizards of the Coast have decided to postpone their debut live stream of Core Set 2021 scheduled for 7 AM Pacific Time today, until tomorrow – Friday June 5, at 7 AM Pacific Time. Release…

Hello, all you wizards out there! On Monday, WOTC made an announcement in which they banned Fires of Invention and Agent of Treachery from Standard, alongside a fundamental Companion rules change: “Once per game, any time you could cast a…

It has finally happened. After a month and a half of one of the most controversial Standard formats we’ve ever had, Wizards of the Coast has decided to pull the trigger and take action. Permanents have been stolen and changed…

The June 2020 Ranked Season starts May 31, 12:05 PT (20:05 UTC), ends June 30 at 12:00 PT (19:00 UTC). Finishing in the top 1200 Mythic at the end of the season qualifies you to participate in an upcoming qualifier…

In just a few days (May 30, to be precise), The Arena Open tournament will be live on MTG Arena, promising cash prizes of up to $2000 USD to the top players. The first day of the tournament will be…

Wizards of the Coast will be making a banned and restricted announcement on Monday June 1st (where there’s still an ongoing discussion roaring about what the companion change will be!), and they’ve indicated that there’ll be a change to the…

Best-of-one (BO1) Standard gives you access to a powerful untapped resource in your Sideboard, and this article is here to tell you how to make best use of it! These are only really used for Companions unless you’re running one…

It only seems like yesterday when Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths was released, and things have been complicated when we consider the surrounding world events that led to the delay of tabletop release of Ikoria as well as cancellation of important…

Historic Anthology 3 is the latest set of 27 cards from Magic: The Gathering’s past that has been added to the Historic card pool along with MTG Arena’s latest patch on May 21, 2020. In this article, we will be featuring…

Welcome back! We’re now five weeks into Ikoria but I’ve decided to skip my usual metagame update this week, as this is the first week where the top decks didn’t change so radically that I could write about mostly new…

MTG Arena is hosting its first cash tournament ever with up to $2000 USD up for grabs for the top scorer on the 30th and 31st of this month. As with other premier events, such as the Mythic Qualifiers, you…

An update to MTG Arena should have just gone live to everyone, and all players will need to download a huge 3.5 GB hotfix to address the “black card” issue. Some players were experiencing missing game asset files, which meant…

Hi folks! I recommend you read my Set Review (linked above) before you begin this, as it gives some much-needed context for the decks I’m about to present. Please note that as the title states, decks are pure theorycrafts! I…

Welcome back! We’re now four weeks into Ikoria, and the trend of every week leaving us on the edges of our seats shows no signs of slowing; the Standard metagame is evolving so fast that the best decks are being…