News

• Innistrad Spoilers—Check out the constantly updating list of spoilers as we count down to the release of the horror classics expansion.
• GP San Diego Now Innstrad Sealed—The format change is most likely the final nail in Extended’s coffin.
• October FNM Promo—Contagion Clasp is still Standard legal and playable.

Standard and Block

• States and Innistrad Standard—($) Brad Nelson gazes into the near future and sees a format dominated by…Cawblade 4.0?
• The Big, the Bad, and the Blue—Conley Woods sleeves up his set of Grand Architects in this mono-blue build.
• Staples of the Post-Rotation Standard—Todd Anderson places JAC3 above Tempered Steel and Birthing Pod.
• Innistrad Goodies for Standard—Adam Koska on the cards he expects will make a big splash in Type Two right out of the box.
• Innistrad in Modern and Post-Rotation Standard—Craig Wescoe checks out the spoiler lists and considers the possibilities for the popular formats.
• Puresteel Mentor—Mike Cannon brews up a post-rotation deck around everyone’s favorite paladin.
• 52 FNMS #5—Jon Corpora can’t believe he’s sleeving up an Illusion deck. Can you?

Limited

• Preparing You for GP Montreal—Reid Duke explains how understanding card tiers plays heavily into M12 signaling.
• Draft M12 like a Pro—Darwin Kastle provides his tips and tricks for the core-set draft and explains his decision to force blue.

Vintage, Legacy, and Modern

• My Three Weeks of Modern and Modern Championships—Naoto Watabe goes deep into Modern in pursuit of a fourth digital ‘Goyf.
• Control is Alive in Modern—Kyle Boggemes on how Cryptic Command decks can regain some control in the combo-dominated Modern meta.
• Best Control deck in Modern—Jared Maquire hypes his 4 Color Greater Good list.
• All in for Modern—($) Ari Lax is one of the few writers who doesn’t think there is enough combo in the Modern format.  Which viable lists might still catch your opponent off guard?
• Breaking through the Breach at PT Philly—Travis Woo gives credit where credit is due when it comes the BreachPost brew.
• UB Reanimator—Frank LePore dredges up a popular archetype and sets it in motion against the Modern metagame.
• The Modern Threat—Caleb Durward speaks for other eternal players as he considers the new format as WoTC’s workaround for the banlist and card scarcity.
• Choose your Weapon— ($) Drew Levin encourages Legacy players to grind on with these tuned-up lists for the tightened Legacy meta.
• Fatalism—Adam Barnello continues his excellent series on the history of Legacy as he makes it all the way to ROE.

Casual and Variant Formats

• Ten Enchantments you Should Play—Abe Sargent on the cream of the crop from the much maligned card-type, Enchantment. 
• To the Pain—Benny Smith gets Izzet with it and creates a Commander deck around Nin, the Pain Artist. 
• Ajani vs Nicol Bolas—Ertai’s Lament begins the breakdown of Ajani’s cat-centric deck. 

Finance

• Stinky, Homeless Fetchlands—($) Mike Hawthorne considers investing in some rotating real estate.
• Rotation is Coming, Rotation is Coming—Robby Rothe looks for long-term value in M11 and Zendikar block.
• Introducing Arbitage—Chas Andres exploits the variance between several markets and explains this key financial concept.

Theory and Miscellany

• Reading the Script of  a Magic Game—Matt Sperling delves deeply into the Magic equivalent of “game film”
• Paint it Black—MJ Scott shares her entertaining list of cards that should have been black.
• Why aren’t there Fat Vampires?—Mike Linneman provides his take on the waifs in the vampire tribe.