News

• Changes to Premier Play and the Banned and Restricted List—Read commentary by Matt Sperling Justin Turner Conley  Woods

Standard and Block

• Back to  Brewing—($SCG) Patrick Chapin is brewing up a storm of interesting Standard  decks.
• Hate—Mike Flores runs down a few of the interesting directions being taken in Standard including packing hate such as Torpor Orb.
• BUG Tezzeret—Frank Lepore shares yet another deck.
• Esper Gauntlet—LSV bashes through Birthing Pod with his Esper build to kick off this week’s gauntlet.  Josh Silvestri shares his thoughts on the deck here.
• Proliferate  Red—Darwin Kastle’s twisted take on RDW includes Tezzeret’s Gambit.

Limited

• Drafting Innistrad for Dummies—Marc Anderson’s excellent run-down of Innistrad archetypes and the cards gain value once you are on point.
• Milling yourself to Victory—Melissa Detora on how Spiders and Burning Vengeance can help you deck your opponent.
• An Uncommon Synergy—Noah Weil learns a format by playing with its commons, but feels he’s mastered it when he’s embraced its uncommons.
• ISD#5—Mike Nass starts off down a spiritual UW path, but then jumps into Red after it appears to be wide open.
• Masque Block Pulls into Port—Enderfall of Mtgoacademy provides a  strategy guide for drafting Masques.
• ‘Tis the Season—Zach Whitten tries his hand at drafting Mercadian Masques.

Vintage, Legacy, and Modern

• Welcome to the Format, A Legacy Bloodbath—Michael Martin plays five rounds with One-drop Zoo.
• Maverick with Punishing Fire—($SCG) Gerry Thompson reminds us that Punishing Grove is still legal in Legacy.
• Picking your Best Frankenstein—($SCG) Drew Levin considers the best reanimation targets available to Legacy players.
• The Restricted  Delver Primer—Marius Van Zundert advocates a novel idea—attacking with creatures  in Vintage.
• Modern Gifts are Given—Valeriy Shunkov emerges from some extended Modern brewing sessions now that Punishing Fire and Wild Nacatl
• Smaller Zoo, More Animals—Deckbuilders like Conley Woods tend to thrive in newly-shaken environments.  Here’s Conley’s take on Modern without the oppressive kitty.

Casual and Variant Format

• State of the Format and What’s Next for Me—Sheldon Menery’s Christmas-time Inventory of Commander includes his thoughts of possible bannings of Primeval Titan, Consecrated Sphinx, and Trade Secrets.
• X Marks the Spot—X-mas has Mike Cannon in mood for X spells like Devil’s Play and Comet Storm.
• 100 Combo decks in 20 Weeks—Abe Sargent ponders the very nature of “combo” as he kicks off this casual series.
• Zedruu the Greathearted—Carlos Guiterrez’ Voltron has a heart of a Minotaur.

Miscellaneous and Theory

• My Penultimate Step—Mike Linnemann is taking a full time job at Fantasy Flight Games, he looks at the status of ten of his long-term projects.
• Mortal Combat—PVDdR gets theoretical about the red zone on the battlefield.
• 3-D Dragons—Andrew Sitte loves how dragon artwork translates into three dimensions. Today  he shares his Scion.