News and Tournament Coverage

• Announcing Magic the Gathering: Commander—EDH has been officially branded as Commander and a product line including fifty-one brand new cards that will be legal in Eternal formats.  Read more about this exciting announcement here.
• Pierluigi Poisons them All—WoTC coverage of Grand Prix Florence showcased Poison  counters and an  Italian champion.
• Saito DQ and Suspension—HOF nominee Tomoharu Saito was disqualified from Grand Prix Florence for stalling a match, and this later lead to an eighteen month suspension.  Channelfireball and Saito have issued statements that can be found here.
• GDS2: Designer’s Submissions—Check out the submissions from the Elite Eight who were challenged to submit eighteen commons from a single color.

Standard

• Worlds Roundup and Testing—Brad Nelson shares some of Team CFB’s insights into the current Standard environment.
• Pushing the Pace of the Game ($) — Alex  Shearer leaves no stone unturned or result uncharted in this meticulous metagame analysis.
• Last Minute Standard Preparation—Josh Silvestri surveys the standard environment and explains the litmus tests your type two deck must pass if you plan on succeeding.
• Preparing for Worlds—Nick Spagnolo points out the cards he feels are well-positioned for standard’s evolving metagame.  He also shares his insights into a Faeries list.
• I Would Play RUG in the SCG Invitational ($) — Patrick Chapin is a big fan of Michael Jacobs’ suggestions for the RUG deck and advocates these upgrades for RUG.
• Examining UG/X Control—Dylan Lerch takes a closer look at the BUG’s (and RUG’s) currently infesting Standard.
• Real Vampires don’t Glitter—Todd  Anderson takes a run at a BR version of the tribal aggro deck.
• Angels and G-Waves ($) — Ted Knutson spurns Valakut for this Genesis Wave build.  His closing rant also sparked some good debate amongst players.

Limited

• Snippets from the Grind ($) — Sam Black has been drafting like a mad man with his nose to the grindstone.   He shares his hard-earned insights here.
• Style Matters—Darwin Kastle’s drafting strategies and styles often make for some interesting debates.  Here, he explains the method behind his not-picking-Myr-Battlesphere madness.
• Going to the Sky Eel School—LSV has continually found himself drafting blue in SoM because it is always open, but there’s nothing like an LSV article to get drafters fighting over an archetype.
• Roundtable #1—Mathhias Hunt sits down with Adam McConnaughey and Kyle Stoll to respond to player questions concerning the current limited formats.

Legacy and Vintage

• Two Months of Data—Jared Sylva crunches the numbers and finds a disparity between results and popularity.
• Death and Taxes Primer—MtGO’s Blazelix adds another items to the list of life’s certainties—that you’ll see him  slinging this mono-white Legacy  deck.
• One Game Remix—Max  McCall  follows up his Tendrils primer  with this close analysis of a game one against UG Survival.

Casual and Variant Formats

• The Artifact Cube and the Art of Theme Cubes - Kranny's intro to his Article cube is an excellent and in depth look at both his physical cube and how he came up with it.
• EDH Proliferation—Bennie Smith builds around the Proliferate mechanic and lets the theme pick the general.
• Cute without the “E”—Robby Rothe discusses the importance of revising the 100 card list in EDH by weeding out the thematically cute cards that don’t make the cut.
• Relic Breaker—Jay Kirkman meddles with this anti-artifact pre-con and winds up with two different builds.
• Arts and (Metal)crafts—Brad Wojcheshonek gives the Metalcraft pre-con an extreme makeover before testing it online.
• Confessions of a Johnny—Abe Sargent builds a variety of Myr decks before turning to other offbeat cards like Sylvok Lifestaff and Scandalmonger.
• Med or Meh?—Pete Jahn reviews Master Edition IV and tries to muster some enthusiasm for the set.
• Ulasht, the Hate Seed—Sheldon Menery takes Toby Elliot’s EDH build for a test drive.

Finance

• Extended Season Portfolio Tracking—Kelly Reid builds a balanced portfolio from cards his projects to trend upward with the New Extended season.
• Trading my Accounts—Kelly Reid enumerates the cards he’s currently picking up for both Standard and Extended.
• What Matters Most?—Brian Grewe reveals the hidden costs involved in selling cards.

Theory and Miscellany

• Building off Mistakes—Christopher Walton warns players away from various dead-end trails writers about the dangers of liquids near their keyboards.
• Establishing  an Identity—Chingsung Chang continues his identification of control fundamentals.