News and Tournament Coverage

• Winning Worlds—Guillame Matignon details his run to the top of Worlds and shares some dramatic moments that happened behind the scenes.
• Mirrodin Besieged Promo Box—This unique deck box—thought to be a top-eight prize for Game Day—allows players to choose a faction.
• Posters for Mirrodin Besieged—A set of ten flavorful posters has been issued to promote the upcoming set.

Standard

• Card Advantage—Darwin Kastle examines the various ways to gain card advantage in today’s Standard environment.
• Vamping the SCG Invitational—Caleb Durward has been running hot with Bloodghast and company.
• Wanting It—Kyle Boggemes shares his latest UW list and argues that cost is not the central issue with Jace, the Mind Sculptor.

Limited

• On the Case—Geordie Tate catches his readers up on what he’s been up to including winning a sealed PTQ online.
• Solving the Sealed Deck Debate with Science: the Results—Gabe Carleton-Barnes posts his results as he attempts to quantify the importance of playskill in sealed.
• TSE Draft—Marin Barbara walks through a recent Tempest block draft, a format which is being hailed as both fun and profitable.

Extended

• Salt, Sweat, and Scapeshift—Josh Silvestri’s look at the current Extended metagame focuses on the potential inherent in Scapeshift and Wargate.
• That Deck is Bad and you Should Feel Bad—Max McCall lends a caustic tone to this Extended overview.
• Extended Valakut Decks—Matt Nass brews up several possible Valakut decks for players who love powerful combos.
• Decks of my Week—LSV’s new feature spans several formats, but this week’s main focus is a pair of Extended builds.
• Extended Testing #1—Brad Nelson has begun his testing trials for the new Extended and shares his process and promising results.

Legacy and Vintage

• Time Spiral, Entomb, Glimpse of Nature, and Vengevine in Legacy—Patrick Chapin is feeling innovative now that Survival has been banned.
• Time Spiral Storm—Drew Levin shares his latest build of UG Time Spiral Storm.

Casual and Variant Formats

• A Fearless Casual Inventory—Adam Styborski faces up to some personal truths in an attempt to improve his playskill.
• Cobra Commander—Adam Barnello runs down his list of red, white, and multi-color Commander staples.
• Snapshot on Singleton Manabases—Marcus Rehnberg has provided a valuable resource for Commander and Singleton players alike.
• If I’m Not Back This Time Tomorrow Carry On, Carry On—Robby Rothe weighs in on Commander’s new banned list.
• Commanders from Three Kingdoms—Abe Sargent examines each of the forty legends from Three Kingdoms with an eye toward their Commander viability.
• More Other People’s Decks Again—Sheldon Menery takes Thelon of Havenwood a whirl now that color identity has made him a legal general.
• Garruk Infected and Elspeth Equipped—Eric Saeger builds his own duel decks based on popular recent themes.
• Garruk vs Liliana—Ertai’s Lament reviews the popular duel deck and continues with an overview of Liliana’s deck here.

Finance

• The Myth(ics) of Preorders—Kelly Reid charts the massive losses suffered by players buying pre-order mythics.
• Cleaning House—Brian Grewe discusses the best ways to shed bulk and provides two handy lists of the most valuable commons and uncommons.

Theory and Miscellany

• Revisiting Marginal Mana—Chingsung Chang provides some projections and practical applications of his unifying theory.
• So you Want to Win a PTQ—Gavin Verhey goes beyond the cliché “get a good night’s sleep” article and provides five insights on how to take your game to the next level.
• One Life—Conley Woods discusses the dark side of perfectionism and how method acting helped him overcome tilt.