News       

• Missed Triggers: The DVD Commentary— Toby Elliot on the reasoning behind DCI’s continued tinkering with triggers.
• Pro Tour Avacyn Restored— Wizards releases all the details on the path to the upcoming Pro Tour, as well as its coverage.
• Magic Online Cubed— Cube is the McRib of Magic. Ryan Spain explains how to get your fill before it’s gone!

Standard and Block

• Standardized Metagame — Owen Turtenwald on how Tokens, Zombies, and Burn stack up in the current environment
• I’ll Take Winning for 100 — Darwin Kastle builds a Standard deck capable of winning for less than a C-note.
• Delver — Jarvis Yu helps you get to know this dominate archetype on a first-name basis.
• Delver Fever! — ($SCG) Even Blue Oyster Cult won’t cure Brad Nelson’s not-so-secret obsession.
• Sideboarding with Delver — Todd Anderson considers the finer points of the fifteen bench players for both the mirror and the rest of the meta.
• Second Place with BW Tokens in Salt Lake City — Craig Wescoe proves there are other decks in the format with his silver medal finish Salt Lake.
• Of Standard, Of Block — Josh Silvestri discusses the dominance of WR Humans and considers some more controlling options available in Block.

Limited

• Herberholz’s Revenge— Paul Rietzl’s poor pool had just enough early heat to take down GP Mexico City.
• DDI #4 — Kyle Boggemes planned to go WG, but ended up with a Werewolf deck that struggled against a deck packed full of rares.

Vintage, Legacy, and Modern

• The Storm is Over — Noah Long stormed the gate for Barcelona and broke on through to the other side.
• Mostly About Melira Pod — John Penick tunes the toolbox for the current meta.
• The 100 Worst Cards in Modern — Brandon Isleib points to some of the narrowest and most conditional cards available to the Modern mage.
• It’s a Trap! — Adam Barnello qualified for the Pro Tour on the strength of his Summoning Trap list.
• Modern PTQ Report — Nassim Ketita took to the Kitchener PTQ by Storm.
• The Logic behind Jank Countertop— Caleb Durward details the reasoning behind playing Jank in Iowa.
• Zombies—($SCG) Sam Black made a big splash in Legacy with his army of the undead.

Casual and Variant Formats

• Snakes on a Plane — Some Commander decks are worth building based solely on their name alone. Sean McKeowan revamps a Seshiro deck.
• Ten Things Casual Players do that Irk Me — Abe Sargent, king of the kitchen table, makes a royal decree.
• The Every Deck Project — Sheldon Menery lays out his plans to explore the possibilities for Commander in this comprehensive project.
• Cube Building 101 — Bradley Steele starts with square one in this introduction to cube design.
• Nicol Bolas — Mike Morales finds a unique deck list billed as a Grixis Group Hug.

Finance

• Lions and Margins and Rares — Ryan Bushard on the card futures that may soon be impacted by reprints.
• It’s that Time Again — Kelly Reid gets the speculators set for spoiler season.

Theory and Miscellany

• Female Players of Magic — The Daily Dot features Jackie Lee, her success, and the reaction from the misogynistic element of the Magic community.
• The New IPG and You — Chris Mascioli gets down to brass tacks with his concise overview of the most recent rules revision.
• Tastes Like Salt — John Dale Beety discusses the void created by the hiatus of Doug Beyer’s Flavor column and then shares his tourney report from Salt Lake.