Mike Lanigan reports on his day-two tournament finish last weekend at the GP in his hometown of Pittsburgh, covering both Gatecrash Sealed and Draft.

David Schumann describes criteria for evaluating long-term specs based on Commander playability, then looks to Gatecrash to see what may qualify.

Gameplan and gamestate are two sides to the same coin. Neale breaks down all the best options among flexible spells, pulling a chaotic gamestate towards a clear gameplan! Find out how inside!

Mike Lanigan discusses the impact of the cards of New Phyrexia on Standard’s Vampire archetype.

We get back to the Hunt with a all new GR aggro list developed by Kellen’s new mtg team. Fast kills are the name of the game in this deck feature.

The next few short weeks, this CawBlade deck continued to dominate tournaments from local FNM’s to large Star City Games hosted events everywhere. The young mage, Mike Lanigan, read articles, built decks, and tried his best to build a comparable strategy that could take down this “Jund-like” beast (or “Faerie-like” if you prefer).

Preconstructed deck expert and Quiet Speculation’s own Jay Kirkman was asked by the four Great Designer Search 2 finalists to put their intro decks through the paces, and today he begins presenting the results.

I am an Aggro player at heart. Since this is my first article, I thought I’d start things off with an Aggro deck that seems like it can float under the radar with your current meta. It’s a Green and Red Aggro deck… I was working on a similar list, but since that was put on the shelf for now, I will work within what I call a “development list phase.”