In a week where it seems as if more than half the Magic playing world has come down with some great illness, This Week in Magic comes to the rescue, to save us from the not-knowing-what-was-written. A blessing even Trick can appreciate this week.

News and Tournament Coverage

• 2010 Player of the Year—Brad Nelson was triumphant in the best-of-seven showdown and became the first American player to hold the POY title in a decade.
• The Future—Mike Flores puts GP Paris in a historical perspective.  WoTC’s official coverage can be found here.
• Game Day Previews—Wizards keeps players guessing about the Mirrodin storyline and the name of the next expansion.
• Magic Makes Guinness Gamer Edition—Magic gets recognized for the series of video games based around a Trading Card Game.

Standard and Block

• Processing Paris—Darwin Kastle provides a concise write-up of the Paris metagame and how it should help shape Standard.
• The Deck for PT Paris—Josh Silvestri discusses the metagame matchups facing the UW Squadron Hawk deck.
• From Paris with Love—Josh Silvestri shares five fearless predictions he had made for PT Paris and compares them to what turned out to be wild weekend that shook-up Standard.
• Titanless—Nick Spagnolo is brewing around one of the most important dynamics in the new standard environment—aggro decks that are killing before Titans can get on board.
• The Top Ten Cards in Standard Updated— $ Mike Flores gets to the heart of Type Two with this lists of Standard’s greatest hits.

Limited

• Limited with Mirrodin Besieged—Frank Karsten has you covered if you are headed to the Mile High City this weekend to crack packs at GP Denver.

Extended

• PTQing in Orlando with Wargate—$ Gerry Thompson compares Wargate to Dark Depths before sharing his tournament report.
• Cryptic Command: Three or Four? –Shuhei Nakamura is back with another one of his excellent single-card decision articles.
• Revitalizing Elves with Green Sun’s Zenith—Todd Anderson shares his vision for an Extended GW Elves build boosted by the Green Zenith.

Vintage and Legacy

• Taking Counterbalance to the Top—Ben Weinberg on how he tightened both his RUG list and his game for his run to the top in Indy.
• Eight Decks that you should Probably Play in Legacy but Won’t—Ari Lax looks at Legacy from the perspective of the decks on the fringe of the format.
• Kansas City and San Jose Legacy—Glenn Jones charts the archetypal successes from recent SCG Legacy tournies.

Casual and Variant Formats

• You Can’t Get Mad Redux—Sheldon Menery adds another twenty-five cards to the infamous list of cards that should be destroyed on sight.  My poor Mirari’s Wakes!
• Path of Blight—Ertai’s Lament reviews the newest infect preconstructed deck in the unexpected color combination of Green and White.
• Precon Recon—Brad Wojceshonek reviews the four new intro decks, so that readers can vote on the one he should give an extreme make-over.
• Top Ten Pieces of Equipment—Abe Sargent weighs in with his list of the top ten equipment cards for kitchen table format.  Amongst the notables purposely excluded—Jitte.
• Gleaming the Cube—Adam Barnello takes on the dual challenge of Winston drafting a cube.  Talk about a skill intensive format!
• MoJhoSto Cube—Thea Steele builds a cube around MtGO’s latest digital hit format.
• Conquerer and Commander: Combo—Mike Morales discusses the combo archetype in Commander that covers four popular generals spanning several color combinations.

Finance

• A Lesson in Bankroll Management—The Regular Gangster from PureMtGO continues his series on going infinite with a key lesson managing that stack of  virtual tix.
• The Importance of Card Evaluation—Corbin Hosler reflects on his hits and misses and speculation homeruns.
• Kuldotha Red, Pimping, and Tezzeret’s Ceiling— $ Jonathon Medina on the two of the hottest topics in the Magic Marketplace and a list of suggested pickups.

Theory and Miscellany

• How I Drew the Player of the Year Battle—Justin Treadway on the artistic process that brought about the iconic artwork for the epic sudden-death showdown.
• Coruscant Boarding School—Alaric Stein talks bluffing, serenity, and the one-and-only time it’s ok to concede.
• The Danger of Scary Things—Matt Nass discusses the magical equivalents of going “all-in” and when to go for the gusto.
• The Ultimate Standard Tournament—Chingsung Chang sets the parameters for his own version of the bracketology designed to crown the all-time type-two king.
• Examining Suture Priest—Mike Linnemann delves deep into the artwork featured on this “creepy” cleric.
• GDS2: And then there were Three—Jay Kirkman’s comprehensive look at the Designer Search’s precon  challenge demonstrates the community interest in the dream-job contest.