Of tournaments, results, articles and news, these are the best articles across the Magic metaspace. Make sure you didn't miss anything important!
News
- DCI OKs Mobile Devices for Matches—Those smart phone apps are now officially legal.
- Knights vs Dragons Decklists—WotC has revealed their selection for the knights gallant enough to ride into the dragon fire.
Standard and Block
- BUG—Frank Lepore avoids playing Caw Blade by resurrecting the BUG archetype.
- A Real Deck—Nick Spagnolo caves in and plays Caw Blade, but he’s bringing some edgy tech to the table. His hawks are ready to take on all comers.
- Introduction to Scars Block Constructed—Joshua Justice won a Block Premier Event last week and shares his insights into his winning list and the emerging metagame.
- Do the Wave ($$) - Brad Nelson has a Genesis Wave deck ready to make a splash in Type Two.
- Nationals Qualifier Begin—Dan Barrett takes his Tezzeret build to a game day and gets ready to tweak it for the big show.
- Running the Gauntlet, RUG—LSV runs the powerful three-color deck up against Standard’s top-tier.
Limited
- Mirrodin Besieged Draft #5—David Ochoa drafts a black and blue deck he feels had potential despite an early-round knockout.
Extended
- Dirty Deeds and Clean Living—Todd Anderson’s latest article stirred up strong reactions on Twitter, but it wasn’t the Extended deck list that got people talking.
Vintage and Legacy
- Legacy Revolution and the Cheapest Deck in the Format ($$) - Jon Medina feels there’s still time to cash in on the growing popularity of Legacy.
- Legacy , Too Expensive—Dave Meeson wonders what could be done to make Legacy more approachable and less expensive.
- The Legacy Cookbook: 2011—Dave Elias has been brewing up all kinds of Legacy craziness in his kitchen, and has a neatly alphabetized list of these decks.
- Why I was Right—Drew Levin explains how the Legacy metagame has shifted away from Counterbalance toward stifle.
Casual and Variant Formats
- Under-the-Radar Cards for Commander—Abe Sargent shares a list of underdogs and the underplayed cards.
- Ob Nixilis vs the World—Sean McKeown gives a detailed, card-by-card breakdown of his demonically good commander deck.
- Psycho Crawler—Brad Wojceshonek delves into his retooling of the Doom Inevitable precon.
- Enabling Blueggro in your Cube—Matt Kranstube talks spell-to-creature ratio and the role of tempo in building blue-based into the cube.
- Putting White Back on the Map—Andrew Cooperfaus comes up with a rebellious solution to improving white weenie’s viability in cube.
- Playing with House Rules in Type 4—Ritchie Tongson break down common variations on the wild alternate Type 4 format.
Finance
- Revisiting the New Power 9 in Magic—Corbin Hosler tracks down the Over-Extended gems as picked by Kelly Reid shortly after the rumor first broke.
- Why Sharks are a Good Thing—Just when you thought it was safe to go into the water Sean Morgan comes to the defense of those guys circling the trade tables.
- How to Win on a Budget—Gavin Verhey explains why you should be looking for undervalued cards rather than trying to find replacements for pricier strategies.
Theory and Miscellany
- Card Selection in Deck Building—Chingsung Chang boils card-selection down to one key concept, efficiency.
- Dark Confidant—Erik Klug juxtaposes some sick Joker artwork with Confidant’s “Greatness, at any cost” flavor text.
- Until it’s Gone—Jeff Froggatt alters the ever-popular Angel of Despair.
- Alloy Myr—Mike Linnemann examines both Alloy Myr and Expansion symbols through the lens of the Vorthos.
- Change the Game—Kyle Boggemes and his roundtable of interviewees weigh in with tweaks they’d like to see made to the game which run the gamut from doing away with foils to instituting a player dress code.
- Connect-R—Raul Porojan charts his deck-building process and arrives at a three-step process Listen, Understand, Connect.
- The Most Dominant Deck of All Time ($$) - Zvi Mowshowitz puts the best of the best in historical perspective.