News and Set Reviews

• Innistrad Pre-release Record—Innistrad’s classic horror themes combined with events being held at local game stores to smash attendance records.
• MtGO Pre-release—Events have been scheduled and QP tables are set.  Hopefully, the virtual tournaments won’t be turning players away.

Standard and Block

• The Top Six Decks in Standard—Alexander Shearer counts down his six picks in the emerging meta-game.
• Innistrad Gauntlet—Zach Krizan  overviews the deck in heavy rotation in his play-test group.
• The Verdict is Inn—Reuben Bresler reconsiders Scars block and M12 cards in the context of Innistrad’s arrival.
• Red Deck Winnistrad—Adam Yurchick on the lightning fast red deck off to a strong start in the brand-spanking new format.
• Esper Control (SCG$) — Brad Nelson pushes the controlling elements of the  Solar Flare archetype  with this powerful brew.
• The Return of Solar Flare—Gavin Verhey on the mysterious origin of the archetype’s name and why the current version is worth sleeving up.
• The Guide to Smashing with Giant Artifacts in Standard—Travis Woo is psyched about Colossus Brown.
• Dredging in Standard (SCG$) — Sam Black gets the graveyard engine started in type two.
• Building with Innistrad—Darwin Kastle gets back to brewing and shares four powerful and relatively affordable lists.
• I like to Pod—Carrie Oliver updates her Bant Pod list for the post-rotation metagame.

Limited

• Innistrad Prerelease—Dan Barrett provides his tournament report and a Sealed deck widget so you can build along at home.
• Exploring Standard and Limited with Innistrad—Ashley Morway on key elements of the limited environment including a more reasonable role for bombs.
• Set Review Conclusion—LSV lists his favorite cards for both Constructed and Limited after he rounds out his set review with the back end of the set.
• Innnistrad Limited Review—Kenji Egashira picks up where he left off last week with his review of Black and Red in Innistrad limited.

Vintage, Legacy, and Modern

• Breaking the Curse—Christopher Walton took down a top-four finish in Indy with his Re-animator.
• Mind your Misstep—Adrian Posoiu ventures into a brave new world.
• Junk  in Legacy (SCG$) — Brian Kibler posts a series of videos against a gauntlet without Mental Misstep.

Casual and Variant Formats

• Innistrad’s Impact on Commander—Jeremy Blair is flying high post-rotation with Zendikar prices dropping and Innistrad’s exciting new cards. 
• The Commander Box: Lay of the Land—Adam Styborksi’s series continues with a look at the real estate that powers those epic Commander plays. 
• War Stories—Jack LaCroix discusses his four pillars of a Commander playgroup. 
• Horde Magic—Peter Knudson’s introduction to a new format with 60% creature tokens that plays out a bit like Archenemy. 
• Deathly Dominion—Ertai’s Lament reviews the most Morbid of Innistrad’s precons. 

Finance

• ISD Rockers and Sleepers—Ryan Bushard shares the highlights from his acquire and dump lists and updates his Box to Extended journey.
• The Immediate Impact of Innistrad—Chas Andres considers if Liliana of the Veil is the next Jace or the next Tezzeret.

Theory and Miscellany

• Altered Reality Challenge #3—Andrew Sitte’s 3-D Squee takes the gold of the Innistrad-themed Commander challenge.
• Asian Magic Communities—Daniel Pham details the unique elements of Magic communities in Japan including their system of sempais and kohais.
• The Llanowar Sentinel—Debbie Freeland’s bi-weekly lampoon details a Judge’s system based on Planeswalker Points.