News       

• Cube Draft comes to MtGO—See the online cube in its entirety and play some virtual cube while it’s available.
• Getting a Job at Wizards—Doug Beyer on landing one of the dream jobs recently posted by WotC. See the list here.  

Standard and Block

• Junk Tokens—Frank LePore charges into battle with the WBG tokens deck that’s been gaining popularity in the format.
• Standard Trending—($SCG) Gerry Thompson a ways down the road to predict the coming shifts in Standard.
• Maybe You Should Drive—Jon Copora ran “R/G Beatz” at his FNM and discusses the futility of Mirrodin Besieged.
• Lingering and Gathering in ISD Block—Craig Cameron Weir on the dominance of Lingering Souls in Innistrad Block.

Limited

• Grand Prix Seattle Report—Alexander West shares his recipe for success in both Sealed and Draft so you can heat things up in Nashville!
•  Gambling on Dark Ascension—($SCG) Jackie Lee has been on a roll, and even the randomness of Sealed couldn’t slow her down!
•  DII #1—Nassim Ketita starts off with three pieces of black removal and winds up in B/R Vampires.
•  DKA/INN/INN—Kyle Boggemes loves it when signals are so black and white.

Vintage, Legacy, and Modern

• Richmond Modern PTQ Winner—Jarvis Yu rocked the Eldrazi all the way to the winner’s circle.
•  PTQ Win with Melira—John Guttermuth pushes the Pod to its limits and takes home the gold.
•  PTQ Richmond Top 4—Joshua Cho was running hot with U/r Tron last weekend in Richmond.
•  The Modern Outlook—Carrie Oliver thoroughly charts the modern meta-game and divides the pie for each category.
• A Look at Legacy and a List of Modern—LSV debuts his new column “Luck, Skill, and Victory” and shares his exciting new Tron brew.
• Lands, the Littlest Eldrazi of All—Alexander Shearer on the standout landscapes and manabases of modern.
• Soul Searching in Legacy—Todd Anderson closes in on the ultimate GW Maverick list.
• Five Wrongly Evaluated Cards in Classic—Naoto Watabe on how the Grafdigger's Cage, Mental Mistep, and three other cards are not fully understood in the mysterious metagame.

Casual and Variant Formats

• Cards that have Impressed Me—Abe Sargent’s kitchen table sleepers might be flying under your radar too.
•  Hidden Gems, Redux—Sheldon Menery continues his search for Commander cards you won’t find on a staples list.
•  Bear Hug—Adam Styborski discusses the Group Hug decks that can really do some damage.
• Singing Souls for my Supper—Sean McKeown overhauls a Rubinia Soulsinger for Commander’s Bant addicts.
• I Command You—Nafiz Erman’s Oros deck runs the three Kaldra equipments and Distorting Lens in order to maximize the general’s damage-based ability.
• Precon Championships—Ertai’s Lament pre-constructed brackets are on to round two. Catch some throwback action from ‘05-‘07.

Finance

• Pack to Prowess—Ryan Bushard details the cyclical nature of up-trading and puts his quest for a set of Extended on hiatus.

• MtG and Taxes—($QS) Chad Havas’ two-part series discusses hobby taxes and business expenses.

Theory and Miscellany

• How to Never Lose a Game of Magic—Craig Wescoe provides tactical advice for improving your preparation in order to improve your play.
• Distorting Reality—PVD provides instructions on several tactical tricks designed to misinform your opponent including the “pen trick” and “the sideboarding trick.”
• Veloctiy—Chingsung Chang breaks down the powerful forces of velocity, momentum, and inertia as they apply to Magic theory.
• Don’t be that Guy—Darwin Kastle’s list of pet peeves might cause you to reflect on your across-the-table manners.
• 3-D Zur, the Enchanter—Andrew Sitte is even more spectacular when you realize he destroyed seven copies of the card to create his eye-popping construction.