News

• Wizards Announces Magic Weekend: Philly—WotC’s takes its show on the road to the city of brotherly love.
• New Garruk Art Revealed—Liliana’s cast a spell over the green ‘Walker and he’s sporting some hardcore leathers.

Standard and Block

• Standard Gauntlet for Nationals—Owen Turtenwald provides updated lists of the heavy hitters
• The Way things Work (SCG$) — Ari Lax takes a big picture look at the current Standard metagame.
• Fourth in Seattle with Mono Red—Charles Wong pays homage to a classic Sullivan red deck from 2005 with this top-four finisher.
• Night Shift—Jonathan Sukenik is a strong proponent of playing Gravitational Shift.
• Standard Metagame Breakdown and Updated WW Lists—Craig Wescoe won 182 boosters online with White Weenie, so it might pay to listen to his advice on the deck.
• Don’t Draw into 9^th, Kids—Adam Prosack has useful advice on Pyromancer Ascension and tie-breakers.
• Doubling up on Exarch—Ken Bearl throws boring overboard with this UR Twin report as he battles the hate and poor air conditioning.
• B2B—Smitty goes Back to Basics with a mono-green build featuring Skin Shifter and Dungrove Elder.
• Colorless Control—Frank Lepore tries out a colorless deck that recently 4-0’d an online event thanks to a critical mass of artifacts and Phyrexian mana.
• Mono-Black Infect—Mike Cannon shares his list featuring Plague Stingers and Phyrexian Vatmothers.

Limited

• Guide to M12 Limited (Part 2)—Francis Toussaint brings his core set limited guide to completion.
• Another Look at M12 Draft—Kyle Boggemes’ draft of BR Bloodthirst broke down last week prompting him to look at the finer points of the archetype.
• Understanding Draft Signals—Carrie Oliver helps players understand the difference between being indecisive and keeping their antennae up for signals.
• A Slice of Standard and M12 Draft—Josh Silvestri breaks down colors in the core set and provides a list of card to avoid like Smallpox.

Vintage, Legacy, and Modern

• Pre-Gen Con Hodgepodge—Christopher Walton isn’t a big fan of either the Doomsday deck or the oversized Force of Will trophy.
• MOCS and Nationals—Todd Anderson lost a heartbreaker final match, but still musters up the strength to share his lists for Stoneblade and NO Bant.
• Vintage Championship Survival Guide—Brian DeMars offers up some quick tips to surviving in Indy.

Casual and Variant Formats

• Sometimes All you Need is a Little Draw—Robby Rothe has to dig deep to improve the card-drawing power of his Brion Stoutarm deck.
• Gen Con and the New Phelddagrif—Sheldon has recently overhauled his general-damage build and shares his D&D playlist.  
• Cooking by the Book and Deck building—Jack LaCroix talks about his Glissa Commander list and takes a step towards becoming the Martha Stewart of the magic community. 
• The Top Ten Auras of all Time--Abe Sargent explores the standout auras from Power Artifact, to Prison Term, to Pattern of Rebirth.
• Politics and the Fun Police in Commander—Jeremy Blair suggests that that playgroups build a “perfect” EDH deck to lend to newcomers in order to articulate unwritten rules and assist those who can’t pick up on social cues. 
• How to Build your First Cube—Jay Kirkman helps would-be Cube Designers with color definitions and number crunches. 
• Post-banning Pauper and Tortured Existence Decks—Alex Ullman’s coverage of the first Premier event since the banning of Frantic Search showcases an exciting and varied format. 
• Dance of the Decks—Adam Styborski offers up five mono-colored decks he designed with introducing new players in mind. 

Finance

• Back in Black (QS$) — Stephen Moss highlights the Black and Artifact cards players should be picking up for the Modern format.
• Modern and the Safer Path (SCG$) — Jonathan Medina didn’t speculate on Modern until the window was actually open, but now he’s engaged his targets.
• New Trends and GenCon—JR Wade points out trending planeswalkers and hot uncommons.
• You Must be Jokin’—Chas Andres reminds traders that there is, in fact, value to be found in rare tokens.  Additionally, Chas has assembled an interesting virtual token museum.

Theory and Miscellany

• Five to Watch—Alexander Shearer’s insights into these five games combine with video original video coverage combine to create an important resource.
• The Question—Nick Spagnolo takes lessons on Inevitability and Punting and applies them to current metas.
• Top Deck Builders of All Time (SCG$) — Patrick Chapin began his countdown of brewers on Monday with Herberholz and Flores.  Don’t miss this mini-series.
• The Real Cost of Art—Mike Linneman’s in-depth guide to buying and collecting magic artwork.
• 3D Kiki Jiki—Andrew Sitte serves up an eye-popping version of the popular Commander and shares his techniques.