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Modern Musings: GP Vegas Tournament Report

Michael Shapiro
June 19, 2017
Modern Musings
Hey guys, welcome to another Modern Musings, this week I'm going to give you my GP Vegas tournament report for Modern. First things first, I ended up playing Todd Steven's list of Eldrazi Tron which you can ... Read More...

Modern Musings: Alcatraz

Michael Shapiro
June 11, 2017
Modern Musings
Hey guys, This week on Modern musings, I’m going to be introducing you to the last couple of prison decks that I’m going do be doing for a while, starting with the one I teased last week, Alcatraz.   What is... Read More...

Modern Musings: Trouble with Trinisphere

Michael Shapiro
June 4, 2017
Modern Musings
This week on Modern musings I’m going to walk you through my journey to try and brew a competitively viable Trinisphere deck and the lessons I learned while trying to do it. What does Trinisphere do? ... Read More...

Modern Musings: Top 5 Underutilized Hate Cards in Modern

Michael Shapiro
May 28, 2017
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What would modern be without its hate cards?  They can define and sometimes even warp the meta game.  This week we are going to be looking at some modern hate cards that I think see less play than they should. ... Read More...

Modern Musings: Forgotten Eldrazi Archetypes

Michael Shapiro
May 15, 2017
Modern Musings
Welcome to Modern Musings, this week we are going to explore two different archetypes of eldrazi.  The first is an archetype that saw quite a bit of play when the new wave of eldrazi were released in Battle for... Read More...

Modern Musings: Amonkhet Brews

Michael Shapiro
May 7, 2017
Modern Musings
Welcome to another Modern Musings, this week we are going to look at some decks that utilize some of the spicy new Amonkhet cards that we talked about last week.   Since last week I had a chance to brew up s... Read More...

Modern Musings: Exciting Cards From Amonkhet

Michael Shapiro
May 1, 2017
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Amonkhet is here, and that means it’s brewing season!  In this article I’m going to go over what I think are the some of the key new cards for modern, what decks they might slot into, and how big of an impact I... Read More...
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