News

• Answers about Magic Weekend—Trick Jarrett interviews Brand Manager Paul Levy about the Magic Weekend mega-events.
• The Promised Land—Tom LaPille looks back on recent cycles of dual lands and spoils Scars’ aggressive new duals.
• Version 2.0—The Flores spoiler for Scars of Mirrodin is Ratchet Bomb, an updated version of Powder Keg.

Tournament Coverage

• Grand Prix Portland—The Northwest’s largest-ever Grand Prix was won by Martin Juza casting a Conundrum Sphinx.
• Amsterdam in Review—Wizard’s retrospective on Amerstadam comes complete with video highlights and a metagame breakdown.

Standard

• Jund at US Nationals—Aaron Wilburn piloted Jund to a 9^th place Nationals finish with a little help from Lotus Cobra and Grave Titan.
• Requiem for a Theme—Dave Meeson shares a B/R burn deck and bids adieu to a few personal favorites from Alara block and M10.
• Predicting the New Standard—Seth Allison uses his speculative talents to discern which decks will survive rotation and which archetypes are dead in the water.

Limited

• Making Top 9 at GP Gothenburg—Conley Woods makes the best of a bad sealed pool by side-boarding into an entirely new build.
• Temptations—Darwin Kastle explains why one of the keys of building a successful sealed pool is avoiding the Red Herring color.
• Power Drafting Red/White—Darwin Kastle shares his tips for building a better Boros deck when drafting M11.

Extended

• White Weenie?—Gabriel Nassif shares several decklists including the new weenie build.   Additionally, he looks back on his HOF career.
• Grixis in Amsterdam—Patrick Chapin continues his love affair with Preordain and the Mind-Sculptor.  He also shares his thoughts about the New Extended format, Spikey fun, and Gunslinging.
• Junding in Amsterdam—Thomas  Ma recounts his run to the top eight in his first-ever Pro Tour event.  Bennie Smith interviews Ma here.

Legacy

• Survival Madness Tips—Doug Linn shares his tips for effectively piloting  Legacy’s hot new creature-based combo deck.
• Examining the Legacy Banned List—Christopher Walton looks at the logic behind Legacy’s ban list and speculates about possible changes.

Casual and Variant Formats

• EDH General Reviews—99 Problems considers the possibilities for Geth, Lord of the Vault and Skithiryx as EDH generals.
• Social Contract, Politics, and other Goodies—Aaron Duvall discusses the strategy inherent in the social contract and shares a useful collection of relevant links.
• Pauper Recap: Team America take a Bow—As if Mike Mullins’ extremely detailed metagame analysis there is also a discussion of the financial value of Yavimaya Elder.
• The Cube: Balance—Adam Styborski considers the barriers to cubical balance including efficiency, mana curve, and comparative effects.
• The Mad Machinist’s Mashup—Ertai’s Lament begins a six-part series wherein several recent artifact-themed pre-cons are combined into the ultimate artificer’s theme deck.

Finance

• Supply, Demand, and Spoilers—Jonathan Medina discusses the hype of Mirrodin’s planeswalkers, Magic Reward Cards, and his current hot pickups.
• Five Ways to Kill a Trade—Corbin Hosler talks trade etiquette and strategy.
• The Ethics of Power Trading—Matt Becker considers the ramifications of the Pack-to-Power trading mindset.

Theory and Miscellany

• Building a Better Manabase—Chingsung Chang has collected the essential information on building the perfect manabase in this one concise article.  An automatic bookmark.
• The Mythical Four Mana Mark—Alexander Shearer tests out the conventional wisdom planeswalker playability.
• Beating Blue—Michael Flores provides strategies for beating blue-based strategies including The Fortress and Draw-Go.  He shared additional thoughts on the subject here.