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One Ring to stall them all - Tron for RC DenverBy Noah Huizinga - Team SwishHello everyone! With RC Denver right around the corner, I have been playing a lot of modern to prepare and am sticking with the deck I’ve played for years: Tron. While I considered other familiar decks, such as Amulet Titan or Living End, I decided to stick with the deck I have the most experience with by far. Tron is in an interesting position in Modern right now. There are not a ton of truly bad matchups for the deck, …

UW Control Going Forwardby Kyle MontgomeryUW control was one of the breakout decks from the regional championship in Atlanta. It had a good matchup into what was the supposed best decks in Pioneer, being Amalia, phoenix, and RB midrange. I’ve had an idea kicking around my head for a while for how to build the deck in a different way than what is the stock way. This innovation mainly comes from a land printed in LCI being Sunken Citadel. Sunken Citadel is a land that minimally fixes your col …

Eternal Weekend NA 2023 Recap - Jeremy PinterEternal Weekend has come and gone and I did not do a lot of winning; at least not on the battlefield. The saving grace for me was meeting nice opponents, getting to see old friends I haven’t seen in years, and spending nights going out for great dinners. Opportunities to play high stakes Legacy and Vintage are few and far between, so falling short is disheartening. However, I know I didn’t put in enough effort this time around so my result is not surp …

Last weekend in Atlanta, I played Amalia Combo at the RC, finishing 10-4, barely missing top 48 at 54th. Here's the list I played:It's basically a stock list that I grabbed from Mauro Sasso on Twitter (@MauroSasso2). I'm going to discuss this list, the match-ups, what I changed for the RC and what I'd change going forward.The deck feels favored against most of the top tier meta decks, the exceptions being UW Control and Enigmatic Fires, which are very difficult. Against RB Midrange and UR Phoeni …

WHY I REGISTERED HAZORET RAKDOS AT THE RC Hello everyone! As you may know, last weekend was the American Regional Championship in Atlanta. It was an event my teammates and I had been preparing for diligently over the past few months, but much of that preparation was thrown into disarray with the recent banned and restricted announcements. Karn the Great Creator being eliminated from the format all but killed the already unpopular mono green archetype, and the unbanning of Smuggler's Copter reall …