The biggest news from this week came on Monday with the announcement of Innistrad as the fall set for Magic.

News

• Wizards announces Innistrad—The overview of the next big-set expansion has been announced.
• GP Kobe Postponed—Tragic events in Japan have pushed GP Kobe back to April 23.
• No Changes to Commander Banned List—Nothing to see here at least until the new EDH products are released.

Standard and Block

• Tezzeret in Block—Russell Tassicker brews up a flavorful deck—Tezzeret in Mirrodin Block—and puts up favorable results.
• Fauna Aggro vs. Caw-Blade—Josh Silvestri sizes up three iterations of Shaman-based Aggressive decks in an attempt to take down public enemy number one.
• Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Standard—James Dykes has your meta-game right here.
• GW Tokens—Frank Lepore’s scraps plans to build around Consecrated Sphinx and opts for White Sun’s Zenith in this revamped token-centric build.  His deck-tech videos feature matches against UW and Cawblade.
• Running the Gauntlet: Tezzeret—LSV kicks off a new series by running Tezzeret up against the best decks in standard.
• The Color of Titan—Valeriy Shunkov tracks the titans through their eras in standard.  Which Titan towered above the rest?
• Three Potential answers to Caw-Blade—Jon Agley feels that standard is still a format in flux and takes a couple of swings at the current heavyweight champion.
• That Kind of Jund in Standard ($$) -- Patrick Chapin brews up an answer to the current meta in the form of this tri-color card advantage machine.
• Block Constructed Queues and two PTQ’s—Jonathan Randle talks Mirrodin Block Constructed and Extended Faeries.
• Your Mom and I—Vincent Thibeault is bringing  Venge-y back with this updated Naya Vengevine build.
• Tezzeret, The Mind Hammer—Smitty is back with a new brew that just may live up to the amazingly awesome name.
• Watch Out Valakut, Control is Back—Shaheen Soorani feels the time has come for a control deck to finally step up and knock out the aggro and combo decks that have defined the Early Extended tournaments.

Limited

• MBS Draft Analysis and Walkthrough—Adam Yurchick does a nice job with his draft walkthrough, but the real value of this article is the archetype-based metagame analysis.
• Moneyball in Mirrodin Limited—Conrad Kolos alludes to one of my all-time favorite books and suggests ways to find gems where others aren’t even bothering to look.
• MSS#1—Tom Reeve winds up in Red/White and takes down an 8-4.  Find out how this archetype has evolved.

Extended

• Throwback Combo, My Favorite—Ben McDole reminisces about classic combo decks and then considers which ones might translate to Over-Extended.
• Bant Warp and Lone Missionary in Extended—Travis Woo removes the veil from the secret deck hailed last week as “the most ridiculous Sword of Feast and Famine deck you will see.”  Behold.

Vintage and Legacy

• 7 Tips for Legacy—Adam Barnello offers up seven insights for players looking to delve deeper into Legacy including “Don’t over-complicate.”
• The Black Caw-Blade and Legacy RUG—Gerry Thompson has been brewing up a storm for the SCG Open Series.
• Enlightened Land Tutor—Michael Caffrey’s complete primer on the uniquely positioned Legacy deck.
• Dealing with Disruption—Carsten Kotter does his best to keep fellow Legacy players from getting Dazed and Confused.

Casual and Variant Formats

• Commandingly Green—Adam Styborski’s budget commander deck explodes on turn five with a little help from his multiplayer friends, including the infamous Jay Boosh.
• MBC in Commander—Abe Sargent considers the possibilities for Mono-Black Control in Commander and builds a deck around Drana.
• A Format for Everyone—PVD with an encyclopedic list of his favorite variant formats.

Finance

• Candelabra of Oh-No’s—$ Johnathan Medina talks the potential value for Candelabra of Tawnos and the concept of price memory.
• The Black Caw-Blade and Legacy RUG—Gerry Thompson has been brewing up a storm for the SCG Open Series.
• Vampires and Speculation—$ Corbin Hosler on cards you should be picking up with the incoming set Innistrad and the explosion of interest in Legacy.
• Investing in Innistrad—Kelly Reid peers into a vampire-filled future and ponders possible pickups.
• Eternal Stock Market—Brian DeMars discusses why eternal formats don’t equate to stagnant card markets.

Theory and Miscellany

• Joey Pasco might be Right—Riki Hayashi weighs in on a 59 card deck.
• Cast through Time: #MoreMedina—Luke Sonnier’s weekly podcast run-down is #Legit.
• Examining the Fundamental Turn—Chingsung Chang explores one of Zvi’s key contributions to magic theory and explains why he feel Vengevine should have gotten the ban hammer.
• Women and Magic: The Game’s Lost Tribe—Titus Chalk delves much deeper into this subject than many recent writers on this perennially popular topic.
• Pro Tour from Start to Finish: 1^st—Kyle Boggemes follows up on his PTQ article with a second installment that is part visualization and part practical advice.
• Building a Deep Mana Base—Alexander Shearer has never been one to accept “the world may never know” as an answer to anything and this time he tackles why some tri-color mana-bases hum along, while others crash and burn.
• Bluffs, Reads, Tells, and Leveling-What’s the Point—Matteo Orsini Jones proposes that Constructed is like poker while Limited is like chess.