News

• Community Cup Coverage—The annual showdown pits WoTC employees against familiar faces from the Magic Community as the teams compete for the Erik Friborg Memorial Trophy.
• Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012—Trick Jarrett takes a trip to the Big Apple and reviews the sequel to WotC’s popular video game.
• Magic Celebration Details Unveiled—Pack Wars, Toolkit Sealed, and DoTP Code Cards will make for a unique event September 10^th.
• World Gorger Dragon Unbanned in Commander—The infinite combo dragon has been unleashed on the format just in time for Commander launch parties.

Standard and Block

• Know your Enemy—($) Gerry Thompson pulls out his brewing notebook and shares his thoughts on a Mind-Sculptorless Standard.
• 5^th at The Invitational with UG Vengevine and Fish—Dan Jordan’s fifth place finish was due in large part to this fresh take on Vengevine.
• UB Metalcraft—Frank Lapore sleeves up his Tezzerets after some strong finishes from the artifact-centric archetype.
• Sick of CawBoring?  Beef it Up!—Mike Lanigan suggests you throw your opponents a curveball by dusting off your Prime-time Titans.
• Standard of Elves and Lessons from Nagoya—Adam Koska considers Elves and Big Red for Standard and reflects on the success of WW in Block.
• Playing WW and Loving It—If PVD is playing WW it must be well-positioned in the meta-game.
• Block Constructed, Post Nagoya—Russell Tassicker looks at the format shaping up around Hero of Bladehold, Koth, and Consecrated Sphinx.
• My Tale of Top 32—Adam Yurchick ran Big Red in Nagoya and shares his tournament report including how he acquired a playset of mirror tech, Vulshock Refugee.
• A Look at Block Constructed—Darwin Kastle’s examination of Scars Block provides a few hints about the future of Standard once Stoneforge rotates.

Limited

• PBS Draft Thoughts—Josh Silvestri on the currently viable draft archetypes and what to do when you’re not in Blue.

Vintage, Legacy, and Modern

• Friends in High Places--Ben Hayes found himself in the top 8 of this weekend’s SCG Invitational after piloting Caw-Blade and an UW Control deck designed by Chapin, Thompson, and Levin.
• Merfolk: The Fun Police—Christopher Walton traces the history of the competitive Merfolk deck back to its Root(water Thief).
• Winning The SCG Invitational with Wild Nacatl—($) Pat Cox’s winning primer on Zoo and part two of his golden tournament report.
• Tight Technical Play and Commander in Legacy—($) Patrick Chapin goes beyond Flusterstorm and considers the Commander Cards that could impact the eternal format.
• One Year of Gaming with Pattern of Rebirth—Felix Lapan has taken his 75 on a journey for 365 and has helped lead the crusade to revive the Hulk-Flash deck without Flash.
• Chinks in the Armor—Caleb Durward looks at Zoo lists in Legacy and Birthing Pod brews in Type Two.
• What is the Least Restricable Card in Vintage?—Stephen Menendian plays a game of hypothetical Jenga with the Vintage restricted list.

Casual and Variant Formats

• Commander Deck Check—Jeremy Blair discusses Commander Staples that should slide right into the new Commander pre-cons.
• The Gift of Commander—Robby Rothe’s reviews the new Commander cards and concludes that Wizards did the right thing by printing cards like Command Tower in favor of reprinting Force of Will.
• Commander Decks you Shouldn’t Play—Abe Sargent clues in the newly minted Commander players on the annoying archetypes we’ve already come to know and hate.  Abe also shares his Tor Wauki build in My Pauper Commander Deck.
• The Community Cube: Set List—Adam Styborski shares the color-pie outlines for the all-commons cube and continues his reader polling.  Cast your votes now!
• Decktagon—Brandon Isleib introduces this handy multiplayer deck visual and charts some popular archetypes.
• Event Decks: Painted into a Corner—Jay Kirkman wonders if Wizards will be able to work out a viable Combo or Control build under the Event Deck model.
• New Phyrexia infects Type 4—Ritchie Tiongson reviews the new set from the Stack-builders perspective.

Finance

• Commanding the Right Price—Chas Andres weighs in on the Commander decks and the unique market restraints of trading with EDH players.
• Setting yourself up for Success—($) Chad Havas speculates on the right cards for after rotation.
• Mispricing Damnation—JR Wade shares his buy and sell lists in light of shifts in Standard, Legacy, and Commander.

Theory and Miscellany

• How to Fill a Toolbox—Gavin Verhey explains why the powerful toolbox strategy is often misbuilt and how archetype basics and help you improve your brews.
• A Mulligan is Worth Three Cards—Taking a mulligan is tough, but is there anyone you’d rather have crunching the numbers and charting the results more than Alexander Shearer?
• Waiting for the Ban Hammer—Luke Sonnier highlights the best Magic podcasters, many of whom discussed the possibility of Type Two bannings.
• Alterations: May Review—Jeremy Froggatt shares all kinds of alteration gems from around the web from a Samurai Sword of Body and Mind, to a hilarious Hymn to Tourach, to a #winning Warlock Sheen that has to be seen to be believed.