News

• 2011 Grand Prix Schedule Announced—Start making your travel arrangements now for the Grand Prix tourneys feeding PT Nagoya and Philadelphia.
• WPN Changes—A new store-affiliation requirement sparked several impassioned responses including those from Gavin Verhey and Riki Hayashi.
• Pack Order in Booster Drafts to Change—WotC announces that packs from the newest set will now be drafted first.  Sam Stoddard reacts here.
• Deckcheck.net Shutting Down—The beloved resource has called it quits and though the site is now officially down you can still read their final announcement on ManaNation.
• Mirrodin Besieged Announcements —The latest news includes the name of the Buy-a-Box promo and Fat Pack changes.

Tournament Coverage

• This Weekend’s Results—A look at the final table from three of last weekend’s biggest tournaments.

Standard

• Power Rankings—William Spaniel runs the numbers on the strongest decks in the Standard field.
• Exploring Sideboards in an Age of Pyroclasms—Alexander Shearer looks to adapt to a newly burn-heavy environment.
• Valakut After States: the Ultimate Primer—Vincent Thibeault provides his road map for playing this powerful strategy now that the Primeval is officially a Primetime Player.
• Fade to Black—Ian Baker just missed top eight at his provincial tournament with this Black Blue control list.
• Blue White Control—Chingsung Chang, Christopher Walton were amongst the writers to tackle the popular archetype that continues to captivate control players.
• Feelin’ Green—Chris Jobin goes Green now that the Elves deck is really taking shape.
• RDW Top 8 in Boston—Darwin Kastle’s tournament report for his return to mono-red.
• Lessons from States—Seth Allison examines the role of card evaluation at these first-look tournaments.

Limited

• Limited Lectures—Brad Nelson categorizes your opponent’s possible sealed pools for the purpose of making your side-boarding more purposeful.
• The Scars Ahead — Gabriel Nassif has been grinding through SoM sealed and is ready to share his notes and insights.
• The Sacrifice Theme—James Gray discusses the road less traveled in SoM draft—Sacrificial Red.

Legacy and Vintage

• The Survival of the Fittest Problem and How to Fight It—Max McCall takes two angles on taking down the new enemy in Legacy.

Casual and Variant Formats

• Commander SoM Set Review—Aaron Duvall singles out the cards that might impact Commander and EDH.
• Other People’s Decks—Sheldon Menery breaks down Aaron Fortino’s EDH build for Teneb, the Harvester.
• The Evil Dead EDH—Bennie Smith appoints Geth, Lord of the Vault as his general overseeing an entire undead army.
• Relic Breaker—Ertai’s Lament reviews risky RG precon that rewards players for mulliganing aggressively in an artifact heavy environment
• Myr, There, Everywhere—Dylan Lerch outlines the possibilities for Myr Tribal in Standard and Block.
• $30 Red Deck Wins — Nina Illingworth builds a budget-conscious deck around Kiln Fiend and Assault Strobe.

Finance

• The Puck Stops Here—Gordie Tait’s expansive article on the affordability of the game covers lit up both Twitter and the forums.  He had me at “Baseball Stars.”
• Trading and a Response to Mountain to Power—Brian Grewe explains how to exponentially grow your trade binder and then lists highly moveable cards of interest for both EDH and eternal players.
• Pack to Power or How to Steal a Thousand Dollars—Peter Jahn discusses the underbelly of the Pack to Power phenomenon.
• Standing Behind my Trades—Kelly Reid’s rebuttal to Jahn’s article starts with the premise that the only rules for trading are those set by the marketplace.
• Momentum —  Jonathan Medina on the value of “Momentum” and provides a case study in recent Twitter activity as evidence.

Theory and Miscellany

• How to Think about Magic—Mike Flores on building for a single tournament and staying focused on results can help you break through your barriers.
• Exploring Mirrodin—Billy Moreno discusses the card-filtering process he uses when coming to terms with a new set.
• Learning to Fail—Conley Woods considers the importance of constructive losses and how they can improve your deckbuilding and playskill.