As San Diego Comic Con, SCG Seattle, and various National Events loomed, the Magic writers continued to churn out awesome content for you to read. Check out this week's list below!

News

• Disqualifications at Japanese Nationals—Two of the top twenty Japanese players, Mitamura and Takahashi, were DQed for unsportsmanlike conduct.
• Three More Spoiled from FTV: Legends—Three more popular Commanders get the From the Vault treatment and this week’s spoilers features some new artwork.

Standard and Block

• Resurrecting the Boogey Man—Tim Pskowski brought home the gold with a post-ban version of Caw-blade. See also, Part Two.
• Cincinnati Standard—Glenn Jones brings the heat with this statistical analysis of the current Standard format.
• The Japanese Nationals Top 8—PVD shares his thoughts on what he believes to be the most significant post-banning Standard tournament to date.
• Two Weeks—Alexander Shearer challenges conventional wisdom and provides a whole new set of predictions in this entertaining and informative piece.
• The New and Old of Standard—Reid Duke considers the top decks from Cincinnati including the revamped Caw-Blade build.
• Homicides and Drive Bys (SCG$) — Mike Flores looks to get the most out of this Birthing Pod triggers with 187 effects.
• The New Kid on the Standard Block—Adam Koska is hanging tough with Tempered Steel.
• Going Aggro in Standard—Josh Silvestri lays out the options for the aggressors in Type Two.
• Soul Food—Harrison Greenberg serves up several flavors of the Soul Sisters combo.
• Eldrazi Green for Today’s Standard—Francis Toussaint returns to the powerful ramp strategy in a seemingly wide-open format.

Limited

• M12 Limited—Darwin Kastle has an early entry on the new core-set environment.
• M12 Limited—Kyle Boggemes hated to say goodbye to Scars draft, but he’s found some solace in the current core set.
• Building in M12 Sealed—Carrie Oliver examines the format through the prism of a three-color build.
• Draft Season (QS$) — Chad Havas suggests having a plan even in core-set draft now that set design has clearly taken a step forward.
• First Impressions on Limited Experience—Matteo Orsini Jones shares his thoughts on the new forty-card metagames.
• Gimmick Decks—Matt Nass discusses rogue strategies available to the players who aren’t afraid to get a little gimmicky.

Legacy, Vintage, and Over-Extended

• Cincinnati with Athens Blue—Reuben Bresler takes a “do nothing” mono-blue deck all the way to the top eight thanks in large part to Mental Misstep.
• When to Play Bad Cards Like Blood Moon (SCG$) — Drew Levin explains how to capitalize on the ever-evolving format with a well-timed curveball.

Casual and Variant Formats

• New Commanders Week—Sheldon Menery takes Riku and Animar out for a test drive.
• Unpacking Devour for Power—Bennie Smith supercharges his Mimeoplasm list.
• Man in the Mirror—Jack LaCroix shares two lists built for two tiers of Commander investments.
• Warping Commanders World—Christopher Walton has a Sliver Queen list that aims to play Warp World rather than an invincible army of slivers.
• Building the Better Intro Pack—Jay Kirkman’s overview of the new Intro decks also provides a retrospective of recent core-set offerings.

Financial

• Dissecting Cincinnati—JR Wade brings a speculators eye to the results in the first major Standard showdown since the bannings.
• Next Level Spec (SCG$) — Ted Knutson turns to MtGO as a potential profit center.

Miscellaneous and Theory

• Trading with Apps—Michael Evans provides an etiquette guide for smart phones at the trading tables.
• The Magic World Cup—Matt Sperling looks to promote the game by garnering some national pride.