News and Tournament Coverage

• WotC Makes Top 10 Hobby Events of 2010—The revamping of the Wizards Play Network made enough of a splash to garner wider attention.
• Big GP Changes of 2011—The updated calendar includes an all-out cancellation of GP Hamburg.
• Nelson vs. Matignon, a Playoff Preview—Antoine Ruel weighs in on the highly-anticipated showdown.

Standard

• State of the Format—Josh Silvestri shares his picks for well-positioned decks in both Extended and Standard.
• Ancient Steel: Evolution—Mike Cannon builds a budget deck around Tempered Steel and shares his results against some of Standard’s most powerful decks.
• Hodgepodge—Dan Eckstein brews a series of decks inspired by lifegain and several of his recent draft decks.

Limited

• Going Green—Darwin Kastle ventures beyond his power-drafting comfort zone and gives green metalcraft a test drive.
• Season of the Digital Witch—Nina Illingworth blogs about her return to MtGO drafts and takes a crack at BG Infect.

Extended

• Playing Fae from A to Z—PVD offers up his comprehensive guide to  Extended Faeries by compiling and updating his insights from the past few years.
• Jund Another Bitterblossom Deck—Dylan Lerch has been delving deeply into Extended Jund and here he considers a  possible slot for Bitterblossom.
• Fauna Shaman in Extended—Adam Koska shares two possible builds designed to maximize Shaman in Extended.
• Infinite Brew—$ Mike Flores updates mono-cascade for Extended and discusses how a deck’s design can cause opponents to go on tilt.

Legacy and Vintage

• Your Legacy Rough Guide—Alexander Shearer has written an introduction to Legacy that is sure to add to the format’s momentum.
• The Q4 Vintage Metagame Report—Matt Elias looks at Vintage results and the dominance of Workshop decks over the past three months.
• Hidden Gems—Adam Barnello brews up a trio of decks built around previously-buried treasure.
• 2010 Vintage Year in Review—Steven Menendian looks at how the new sets have impacted Vintage and runs down the milestones in the metagame.

Casual and Variant Formats

• Archvanchase—Abe Sargent adds Vanguard cards to the popular combination of Archenemy and Planechase.
• Spicing up a Stale Marriage—Jay Kirkman breathes new life into old pre-cons  with the Eternities Map, Royal Rumble, and Tribal warfare.
• Xira Arien—Mike Morales upgrades the Insect Wizard’s Pre-constructed Commander deck.

Finance

• Sideboarding for Sharks—$ Jon Medina discusses what to do  in the  shark-on-shark mirror match at the trade tables.
• A Wave of Changes—Corbin Hosler brings strategy and finance together in this QS article that may prove profitable on several levels.
• Trade Secrets—Brian Grewe takes notes on how large dealers do business and considers how these techniques  translate to the trade tables.

Theory and Miscellany

• Winning a PTQ, Not Violating the Prime Directive—$ Patrick Chapin has surfaced with another one of his central maxims, “Don’t play a bad something else.”
• Good Players and Bad Habits—Adam Prosak chooses respected players to serve as case studies in the kind of mistakes that impede good players.
• Covering the Coverage—Russell Tassicker discusses the current state of event coverage and MTG media in general.
• Powercreep: The Results—Chingsung Chang crunches the numbers and finds that Planeswalkers and efficient mid-range creatures have drastically impacted our current environment.