News

• Faction Packs Confirmed—Get the scoop on exactly how the Mirrodin Besieged prerelease events will incorporate these novel boosters.
• Knights vs Dragons—WotC has announced the next duel deck which will pit Holy Paladins against their Hellkite foes.
• Promotion for DotP on PS3—Lilliana Vess is rumored to be the promo card for the Playstation version of Duels of the Planeswalkers.

Tournament Coverage

• Grand Prix Sydney—The mothership’s coverage of the limited Grand Prix features Neeman and LSV at the final table.
• The Big Winners—Mike Flores discusses several of the more interesting decks to take down a state title last weekend.

Standard

• Analyzing the Post-States Metagame—Antoine Ruel surveys the new Standard landscape now that the dust has settled.
• Standard Metagame Analysis—Bas Melis crunches the numbers and provides us with the vital statistics for the new Standard.
• States Aftermath—Brad Nelson talks sibling rivalry and a powerful RUG strategy.
• Winning NY States with U/B Control—Nick Spagnolo combined a couple of titans, both Jaces, Trinket Mage, and Doom Blade in a powerful control strategy.
• UW Control at Champs—Justin Richardson took home the title in Quebec with this Blue White build.
• Designing Control for States—Chingsung Chang examines the new meta-game from the control player’s perspective.
• Someday I Will Win it All--KYT reflects on the UR build he piloted to the top four and discusses Flores Mill as well.

Limited

• Scars of Mirrodin Draft Archetype—Josh Silvestri enumerates the wide variety of archetypes in this artifact-based draft format.
• The First Draft—Matteo Orsini Jones looks at the synergies that push your SoM draft decks over the top.
• GP Sydney—Brian Kibler’s tournament report from Down Under.
• Exploring Infect in Scars in Limited—Sam Stoddard goes in-depth on the signal dependent archetype.
• Scars Packs—Darwin Kastle cracks a couple of SoM packs and ranks his probable picks from one to fourteen.
• Heavy Metal—Dan Eckstein delves deeply into the value of metalcraft cards and arrives at some surprising conclusions.

Legacy and Vintage

• I Will Survive—Adam Barnello forgoes Force of Will for a Survival of the Fittest build.

Casual and Variant Formats

• Scars of Mirrodin Top Uncommons—Dave Meeson is back with a run-down of the uncommonly good standouts in the new set.
• Will you be my Archenemy—Abe Sargent revisits the Archenemy format.  His introspective classic Revelations of a Magic Writer from 2004 also got a lot of love recently from MaRo, Chapin, and the Twitterverse.
• Metalcraft Review—Ertai’s Lament begins his review of this artifact-heavy, U/R neo-Affinity.
• Hidden Gems, Part 2—Sheldon Menery finishes his list of underplayed EDH cards.
• Brion Stoutarm—Mike Morales discusses his Commander build for the popular Giant legend.

Finance

• Trends from States—Brian Grewe provides the trader’s perspective on last weekend’s States results.  He also has begun detailing his Mountain for Power journey on his personal blog.
• Buy Lists—Chris McNutt offer s up the latest buy lists and financial breakdowns.  Excellent information from Quiet Speculation.
• Rags to Riches—Marin Baraba reaches back into his bag of virtual tricks and explains the danger of holding chase mythics.

Theory and Miscellany

• Finding Ways to Fix your Draws—Gavin Verhey reflects on one of the Great Designer Essay questions and comes away with some insights into deck-building.
• The Workflow of Your Turn—Kelly Reid reveals that a magic turn is just another engineer’s challenge in disguise.
• A Screen Full of Win—Adam Styborski explains why picking up the pen can drastically improve your game.