News       

• Avacyn Restored Spoiler—It’s spoiler season, and Gathering Magic has you covered!
• Planeswalker’s Guide to Avacyn Restored, Part 2—Magic’s Creative Team provides a guided tour of our current plane.
• World Magic Cup Qualifiers—John Dale Beety quantifies the enormity of the World Magic Cup qualifiers.
• Miracles and More— Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa on the miracle mechanic that’s been met with mixed reviews.

Standard and Block

• This Week in Standard—With all the hype around spoiler season, Kyle Boggemes needs to remind some of us that there was still Standard being played in Phoenix and online.
• Lighthouse—Jesse Smith is all over the new looting land that opens up a possibility for U/R Delver and provides Red Deck Wins with a stronger late game.
• Brewing with Avacyn Restored—($SCG) Gerry Thompson emerges from the laboratory with a stack of proxies and brand new brews.
• From Hopa With Love—Daniel Pham has been red hot, thanks in part to this Naya deck featuring Huntsmaster of the Fells.
• Restoring Momentum or Breaking the Game—Alexander Shearer recently wrote about the shift that third sets often bring to a metagame, but to date he hasn’t seen much that doesn’t add to existing archetypes.
• Brewing with Planeswalkers—Carrie Oliver has found possible homes for Tomiyo, Tibalt, and, as a bonus, a certain hexproof Angel.
• Ramp in Standard—Ramp got a nice boost from Cavern of Souls, which was what Jarvis Yu looked at the current iteration.

Limited

• Undying: Back for More—Marcus Hensing is excited for flickering effects, three packs worth of undying picks, and an emerging Limited archetype.
• DII #5—Nassim Ketita takes down a draft with a B/R deck. Watch him assemble it pick by pick.

• DII #1—Melissa Detora cobbled together a W/U deck that she was able to pilot to a final game in round three.

Vintage, Legacy, and Modern

• The Opportunity Cost of Cool Things—($SCG) Drew Levin scouted the spoiler with Legacy in mind. Read his thoughts on Cavern of Souls, Temporal Mastery, and the possibility of banning Brainstorm.
• Spring Decks you Might have Missed—Brian De Mars feels that Gush is well-positioned, and he examines deck lists ranging from Mono-White Hate Bears to Grixis Control.
• Legacy’s Best Combo Deck—Matt Elias on how Faithless Looting has solved a conundrum for Dredge players.
• Breaking into Legacy—Mike Lanigan explains how he got invested into the eternal format, and why he likes the looks of Maverick.

Casual and Variant Formats

• The Many Have Spoken—Sean McKeown gives works with a Rafiq deck that takes a friendlier—and less obvious—approach for the multi-player tables.
• Mayel the Animazing—Avacyn Restored’s angels have sparked Cassidy Silver’s in Mayel, one of the most popular Commanders in the format.
• Pentachomacy—Brandon Islieb talks about multiplayer matchups, and likens a good game to a narrative with a satisfying ending.
• Momir Basic—Bruce Richard sets up a real-life game of Momir Basic, and highlights a few lessons he learned along the way.

Theory and Miscellany

• Women in Magic, the 2012 Edition—Jackie Lee provides her take on the state of sexism in the community and suggests actions players can take to create a more welcoming environment.
• Mastering Formats—Conley Woods considers how Wizards support and rotation schedule yield varied results for masters of individual formats.
• Alter Review—Eric Klug reflects on some of his alters including a series of super-hero planeswalkers, and another series inspired by painter Alphonse Mucha.
• March Review—Jeremy Froggatt documents the best alteration in the community. I’m partial to Masuli’s Rosheen and Blackwing’s ‘Walkers.
• Whitewater Rafting—Jules Robins his readers have begun fleshing out the design skeleton with white commons. You can read about the start of the series here.