News       

• Dark Ascension Event Deck Lists—Monty Ashley previews Gleeful Flames and Spiraling Doom.
• Pro Tour Dark Ascension Coverage—Live video streaming begins at 2 PM Eastern, continuing through the finals on Sunday!

Standard and Block

•  Blinding Sunrise, Dark Ascension—Mike Flores on the state of Standard as the pros head to Hawaii.
• Strangling Standard—Josh Silvestri has a mono-green Strangleroot Geist list that brings the beatdown.
• Standard Dungrove Aggro for Cincinnati—Todd Anderson’s 24 Forests powers a rather intimidating Bellowing Tanglewurm.
• Bruises—Justin Vizaro, well-acquainted with U/B, shares his take on Standard Zombies.
• Looking at Dark Ascension, Part 2—Chingsung Chang has already dealt with Delver of Secrets, and now he’s on to Birthing Pod.
• 52 FNMs—Jon Corpora continues his Friday Night Magic series by slinging Deathfed, the Innistrad Event Deck, at his local store.  How competitive was the preconstructed deck?

Limited

• A Look at DKA Draft Archetypes—Melissa DeTora on how G/U Self-Mill, G/W Travel Preparations, and U/R Control are drafted with the new set.
• Killing Creatures in Dark Ascension Limited—($SCG) Jeremy Neeman attempts to make sense of a plane where removal spells are seemingly all situational.
• MTGOAcademy’s Ravnica Drafts—Drafts by Limited Resources, ShipitHolla, and PlanetWalls.

Vintage, Legacy, and Model

• The Land Continues to Burn—Adam Barnello on how not to get beat by Eternal Burn.
• Legacy 2012: Is the Tide  Turning? —($SCG) Patrick Chapin looks at the ground gained by non-blue decks in Legacy.
• Nic Fit (GB) vs. Reanimator—Caleb Durward on a matchup that gives G/B fits.

Casual and Variant Formats

• So I hear you Like Elves—Sean McKeown reworks an Ezuri deck and extols Gaea's Cradle. 
• The Isperia Challenge—Sheldon Menery takes a second stab at Isperia and attempts to limit Commander staples. 
• Feeding Time—Mike Cannon brings a couple of feeding frenzy themed decks to the kitchen table.
• Going Mental—Nathan Weizenbaum’s weekly puzzle features Mental Magic, a popular format that makes a rare article appearance. 
• Grave Power Review—ErtaisLament on a intro pack that doesn’t stray from its theme. 

Finance

• The Battle of the Specs—($SCG) Ted Knutson is looking for four financial apprentices and provides the blueprint for the contest-based series.
• Dark Ascension Set Review—Brian Grewe sifts through the Dark Ascension bulk rares in search of speculative earnings.
• Following the Coverage—($SCG) Chad Havas’s results-oriented analysis reveals financial futures for cards like Vorapede.
• Learn the Most, Earn the Most—Kelly Reid demonstrates how he’s used various sites to cobble together the Magic-equivalent of the Wall Street Journal.

Theory and Miscellany

• History is Written by the Literate—Brandon Isleib discusses how Magic writers skew Blue, coloring our perception of viable decks.
• Open Ears—Jesse Smith on how being open to constructive criticism helped him grow as a brewer.
• Sideboarding Strategy—Owen Turtenwald on the final fifteen.