News
- Changes to 2012 Tournament and Event Structure—WotC’s big announcement sent shockwaves through the pro community.
- Player Responses to OP Changes --PVDDR, Robby Rothe, Jeph Foster, Matthias Hunt, Conley Woods, Brian Kibler ($SCG).
Standard and Block
- Running with Wolves—Conley Woods charts the evolution of the Wolf Run Green Deck.
- Eighteen or Nineteen—Shuhei Nakamura maximizes his forest count to take full advantage of Dungrove Elder in his “Outback Dunny” list.
- Of Stripmines and Snapcasters—Michael Martin discusses the state of WW, the power of RUG, and shares and explosive elf-centric build.
- White: The New Red—Darwin Castle has surveyed the Plains and has liked what he’s seen.
- GW ROFLstomp—Daniel Unwin teamed Blade Splicers with Overruns and it paid off in Brisbane.
- Delving into the Unreal—Todd Anderson encourages you to use your illusions.
Limited
- U/B Self Mill—($SCG) Brad Nelson on the delicate balancing act involved in drafting the graveyard dependant strategy.
- Innistrad Sealed—Nassim Ketita settles on a Boros build of his virtual sealed pool.
Vintage, Legacy, and Modern
- Control in Modern—Adam Koska looks for ways to use his Remands and he also has a 5c Control list ready for the Modern meta.
- Delving Around—Caleb Durward considers the relative importance of Delver of Secrets and Brainstorm in the recent resurgence of Blue.
- How to Beat Everything Using Savannah—($SCG) Drew Levin goes Maverick just in time for elections season.
- Broken Crutch—Adam Barnello challenges eternal players to think outside the box and push past X-3.
- Learning Legacy—Carrie Oliver pilots a Zoo deck in her first Legacy tournament and discusses the value of a lending system.
- How to Stifle for Value—Michael Caffrey’s examination of one of the most polarizing cards in Legacy.
Casual and Variant Formats
- Powering up My Commander Deck—Bennie Smith overhauls his Glissa deck and takes the well-oiled machine out for a drive.
- Oh, Livia!—Sheldon Menery breaks down a League-mates Olivia deck which he deems competitive, but sporting.
- Beating Down with the Bandit Warlord—Sean McKeown updates a reader’s Godo deck with Innistrad cards, classic equipments, and a split-second favorite.
- So You Sphinx You Can Win—Nathan Wizenbaum has a one-on-one Commander puzzle where you need to pilot a Sharuum Sphinx deck to victory.
- Filth Casserole Magic—Inkwell Looter proposes new singleton format utilizing the Modern card pool.
- The Equinaut Primer—Abe Sargent gets freaky with equilibrium and a pack of death kitties.
- The Community Cube: Innistrad—Adam Styborski provides the breakdown and ballots for Innistrad updates to the on-going project.
- Deathfed Review—Last week’s review of Hold the Line talked me into picking up a copy of the event deck for my girlfriend. See what Ertai’s Lament has to say about the three-color counterpart.
Finance
- TCG Player Market Watch—Kelly Reid searches high and low for a true “hot pickup” in type two.
- Friends Don’t Let Friends 4-3-2-2—($SCG) Ted Knutson helps you get more out of your MODO-drafting dollar.
- Your Manabase and You— ($QS) Chad Havas suggests investing in prime real estate in this volatile Standard marketplace.
- Making your Margins—Ryan Bushard helps traders profit from varying values created by players and websites alike.
- Where to Speculate Next?—Sigmund Ausfresser considers investing in boxes now that the market has become relatively stagnant.
- Pinching Pennies—Dan Eckstein has a high-octane tip about four-pack sealed.
Theory and Miscellany
- Three Models for Evaluating a Game State—Craig Wescoe applies card advantage, tempo, and the philosophy of fire to some actual board states.
- The Llanowar Sentinal, 11--Debbie Freeland lampoons everything from Innistrad Zombies to Magic Podcasts.