News and Tournament Coverage

• 2010 World Championships—The mothership’s coverage of the game’s biggest stage and an exciting look at the new Extended.

  Magic Online Championship Series—WotC’s coverage of MOCS wherein Carlos Romao was crowned king of MtGO.

• Commander Rules Changes Announced—Emrakul gets the ban hammer, while Bosh, Memnarch, and Rhys—amongst others—are now legal generals.
• Great Designer Search—In the latest round the remaining six contestants are challenged to design several cards for another designer’s world.
• Trick Talks M:TG Tactics—Trick Jarrett was one of several Magic Media members who spent a day in Denver providing feedback to Sony about their upcoming video game title.
• Mirrodin Besieged Intro Packs and Booster Boxes—ManaNation reveals the names and artwork of the five cards featured in Besieged’s Intro Packs.

Standard

• Worlds Review—Ari Lax delves into the World’s formats and shares his three big takeaways from the weekend.
• Worlds Impact—Darwin Kastle breaks down the Standard metagame and brews a mono-black deck designed to take down Valakut and Blue Control variants in game one.
• Topping the SCG Invitational with B/R Vampires—Keith McLaughlin provides a primer and tournament report on this top-tier agro deck.

Limited

• Tales from Nashville—Ben Stark, a big proponent of Infect in draft, finished just outside the top eight in Nashville and shares his current insights on limited format.
• A Breath of Life for SOM Limited—Justin Vizaro is bored with Metalcraft and Infect, so he turns to Flameborn Hellion to spice things up at the draft tables.
• The Mythical 40 Person PTQ—Lauren Lee reflects on her PTQ experience.

Extended

• Just a Slime or Twooze—Conley Woods sprang his Necrotic Ooze deck to capitalize on the Devoted Druid and Quillspike combo.
• World Championships, Constructed PTQs, and Being Evil ($)— Patrick Chapin loves wide-open, deckbuilder’s formats and he shares some of the Extended decks that caught his eye.
• Do you know Thoughtseize?—Ari Lax proclaims Thoughtseize the most important card in the emerging meta.
• Worlds—Nick Spagnolo discusses the RUG Scapeshift deck he ran last weekend.
• A Rant about Magic Online and a Level-Headed look at Faeries—Todd Anderson feels that the Fae might be unbeatable now that Punishing Fires has rotated. He also makes a case for increasing prize payout online.

Legacy and Vintage

• This is Madness—Vintage is a mad, mad world and Andy Probasco is gushing about a deck that has topped some recent Euro-tournies.
• A Look at Some Non-Standard Formats—Josh Lalo talks Extended and Eternal formats.

Casual and Variant Formats

• December 20^th Announcments (Commander)—Sheldon Menery explains the Emrakul ban and the concept of color identity.
• An EDH Reboot—Bennie Smith gives his take on the format changes and the upcoming infusion of new cards created especially for Commander.
• Cobra Commander—Adam Barnello provides a concise list of Staples and shares a Vorosh list.
• Finding Duplicates for your EDH/Commander Deck—Abe Sargent ramps up the redundancy in the highlander format.
• Homura, Human Ascendant—Mike Morales builds around a mono-red monk.
• Five Reasons Why Intro Packs Matter—Jay Kirkland spreads his love for pre-constructed decks in this core-value article. His pre-con championships continue here.
• Quentin Tarentino’s Cube Picks—Adam Styborski talks about the importance of creating tension through Cube Design.

Finance

• The Financial Impact of Worlds—Brian Grewe picks five potential movers for both Standard and Extended.
• Post-Worlds Tracking—Kelly Reid checks the progress of his Extended portfolio and points to a few of his favorite hot pick-ups. Reid talks about a possible MtGO portfolio here.
• Thinking Long Term—Chas Andres talks about one of the worst trades he’s ever made and then peers into his crystal ball.

Theory and Miscellany

• Worlds Draft (Cheering Against Phil Napoli)—Mike Flores blogged about the star-studded Worlds fantasy draft and the results of a few friendly wagers.
• Making the Call—Jeremy Neeman conjures chessmaster Kotov in this piece about thinking through lines of play and decision trees.
• Gift Ideas—Dave Meeson suggests several great gift ideas for the players in your group.