News       

• Dark Ascension Prerelease Primer—WotC’s official primer for this weekend’s festivities. 
• Dark Ascension Spoiler—Gathering Magic’s spoiler is printer-friendly, user-friendly, and completely sortable.
• Dark Ascension Intro Packs Fully Spoiled—Use WotC’s official deck lists to help you pick your weapon for the Prerelease side events.

Standard and Block

• 1^st and Standard with Dark Ascension—Even after a big win Todd Anderson still can’t help brewing with mono-green monsters.
• Tempered Township—Conley Woods set the world on fire with Wolf Run Rock, but this list was his first choice.
• Dark Standard—PVDR looks peers into the darkness to see what’s next in Standard.
• Gravecrawler, Gerlaf’s Messenger,  and the Mono-Black Dream—($SCG) Patrick  Chapin thinks it might be time for mono-black mages to get their hopes up.
• Talking Tokens with Sorin and Garruk—Michael Martin brews up several variations on W/x tokens.
• About this Tokens Thing—($SCG) Ari Lax on whether Sorin, Lord of Innistrad and Lingering Souls can truly push tokens into the tier-one stratosphere.
• A Look at the Top Five Decks in Standard—Owen Turtenwald breaks down UB Control, Desperate Ravings Control, and Conley’s latest brew.
• Controlling Orlando—Ben Stark gets behind UB Control.

Limited

• Dark Ascension Review—Conley Woods rates the new cards for both Limited and Constructed applications.

Vintage, Legacy, and Modern

• Winning with Affinity—Melissa DeTora shares her first-place PTQ report.
• Rainbow in the Dark—Adam Barnello discusses the obvious standouts and potentially overpowered cards like Ghoultree and Tragic Slip.
• Dark Ascension in Eternal and the Best EDH General—Jonas Walther reviews Dark Ascension, with a bonus Zur Commander list too.
• Creatures, Creatures Everywhere—Brian DeMars hands out the syllabus to his Vintage Master’s Class.
• The Gaff of Dark Ascension—Caleb Durward explains why the Cage will impact more than just Dredge strategies.

Casual and Variant Formats

• Do Werewolves Rise in Dark Ascension?—Bruce Richard’s casual review of Dark Ascension rares.
• The Dark  Night Returns—Daryl Bockett discusses three cards from each rarity he feels will soon be making waves for in casual circles.
• Commanding the Darkness—Adam Styborski shares his Commander-centric wish list to obtain at the prerelease. 
• Apocalyptic Vision—Mike Cannon’s found a new use for Tunnel Vision. 
• Unique Effects—Usman Jamil loves color shifted effects in his cube an warns against taking up space to shoe-horn possible archetypes.
• Isperia the Inscrutable—Sheldon Menery breaks down Matt Newnam’s sphinxtastic Commander deck that showcases many of the format’s blue and white staples.

Finance

• The Financial Value of Dark Ascension—($SCG) Read Ben Bleiweiss's financial review here.  And don’t miss his list of Ten Cards that have Risen this Month.
• Financial Prediction for DKA—Craig Wescoe looks into the financial future for the newest expansion and sees a slew of bulk rares.
• Box to Extended: Investing for the Modern Man—Ryan Bushard hits the trade tables after considering how the emergence of tokens might shake up card values.
• Better Double Tap, Those Zombies aren’t Dead Yet—Austin Clough doubles down on the Grimgrin deck.

Theory and Miscellany

• Altered Reality #5—Adam Styborski announces the Valentine’s Day themed challenge, as well as the esteemed judges.
• The Magic of Mistakes—Natasha Lewis Harrington on the difference between mastery-orientation and performance-orientation and learning from mistakes.
• How to Write a Magic Article—Abe Sargent’s advice: sweat the small stuff, consider new players, and save the rants for your blog.
• Deckbuilding the Easy Way—Karsten Cotter slots new cards into old archetypes.
• The Cost of Drawing Cards—Chingsung Chang might cause you take reconsider your evaluations of cards like Think Twice.