News

• New Trademarks—Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas, Elspeth Tirel, and Commander are the most recent trademarks to hint at the future of the game.
• The End of Deckcheck.net—Christopher Walton considers what the loss of the beloved resource means to the community going forward.
• An Affected Independent TO Speaks Out—Bruce Richard’s editorial on the recent WPN changes is an up-close and personal look at the restrictions to the Play Network.
• Aleski Book Reveals Tezzerret 2.0?—There’s the calling card etherium arm and a dark and fiery background. Is this the next chase planeswalker?

Tournament Coverage

• GP Toronto—Jon Smithers took down the Limited Grand Prix in his home-country.
• Decks of the Week—TheMothership’s decklists and results from last week’s biggest real-life and virtual tournies.

Standard

• Your Standard Gauntlet for SCG Open: Charlotte—Todd Anderson runs down the big five decks currently dominating the format and lets you decide to beat them or join them.
• The State of Standard—Josh Silvestri talks Jace wars, ramp strategy, and Gaea’s Revenge.
• Cards to Build Around—Conley Woods provides a top-five list of powerful Standard cards begging for a rogue deck to be built around them.
• Brain Drain—Gavin Verhey updates a Runeflare Trap deck and ends up with an interesting combo deck for Standard.
• Turboland Again—Mike Flores built a Pyromancer’s Ascension deck without Time Warp, and now he sets his sights on revamping Turboland.
• Tuning a Standard Deck—Antoine Ruel tunes a UB deck after taking inspiration from the Great White North.
• On Trinkets and their Mages—Dylan Lerch examines the potential of Elixir of Immortality when paired with Trinket Mage.

Limited

• This and That — Sam Black discusses SoM draft archetypes and Brad Nelson’s freaky level of play skill.
• Scars Sealed Metagame—Ari Lax theorizes on the importance of dealing with bombs in large tournaments.
• Power Drafting Red/White—Darwin Kastle begins his look at color combinations with his top-ranked archetype, RW.
• Scars of Mirrodin Draft #2—David Ochoa grasps at the darkness in this walkthrough of a recent BG infect deck.
• A Long Time Coming—Jonathan Smither’s tournament report for his gold-medal run in this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix.
• GP Toronto Report  4^th—Ben Stark ran his black and red build all the way to a top-four finish in Toronto.

Legacy and Vintage

• Sideboard Strategies — Brian DeMars advocates building decks with the sideboard in mind, which is an important concept for eternal and non-eternal players alike.

Casual and Variant Formats

• Erayo in EDH—Dr. Jeebus’ Erayo deck is the perfect way to play role of heel in your EDH playgroup, provided they let you keep playing.
• Assembling the Fun Machine—David Lee experiments with Kraj as an example of a build-around general.
• Divine vs. Demonic—Ertai’s Lament has a demon on shoulder and an Akroma on the other this week.
• Ablaze of Glory—Dave Meeson continues crushing on Chandra Ablaze and shares his latest list.
• Tibor and Lumina—Mike Morales examines the alternative Izzet general.

Finance

• Using Pricing  to your Advantage—Matt Sedlak responds to the  recent financial takes by Jahn and Reid.
• Let’s Hit the Tables — Jon Medina returns to his trade-table format popularized by his “Pack to Power” days and shows you what he’s trading for now.
• Pimp my Deck—Brain Grewe explains the various levels of pimpage and how this can help you flip a profit at the trade tables.

Theory and Miscellany

• Mana Rules Everything around Me — Patrick Chapin knows that it all starts with the manabase, and so he takes us on a tour of psychographics and economic metaphors to drive that point home.
• Why Magic Writing Matters—The Ferrett weighs the importance of tech against personality and entertainment value for aspiring Magic writers.
• The Circle of Predation—Chingsung Chang delves into “the meta-game wheel.”
• 18 Ways to Improve Magic Online—In his quest to improve Magic Online Gordie Tait begins with proxies and ends with Power Nine.