Taking a look at what’s been leaked so far, Stephen Moss gives his first assessment of the new cards from Innistrad.

Jules shares the chorus in his head as he covers a deck around Chorus of the Conclave.

If you give a man a fish, he eats for a day. If you teach a man to build a budget fish deck, he wins Commander games for the rest of his life. You know Carlos is bringing the heat with Sygg!

We’ve had 2 weeks of Opens to see the impact New Phyrexia has had on the Standard and Legacy tournament scenes. I’m going to focus on Standard, since the Grand Prix this weekend is Legacy, and will almost certainly have more players than the SCG Open series gets. Waiting on that will give us a bit of a better view on the format. However, for Standard, there’s no reason to wait, especially since the format hasn’t really undergone much of a change.

Neale takes a reader’s Rafiq deck from common to commanding for head’s up play, and challenges you to do it better. Think you can handle the firepower?

Who needs the biggest guns and baddest creatures? Neale takes you through why the pen is mightier than the sword. (It’s winning.)

In the final Cube SWOT article Usman shatters notions around Artifacts, levying ruin to the everyday average.

Who doesn’t love attacking with creatures in Commander? This week, David explores a Legend who will certainly help you do just that!

Part summary, part style, all hot Cube theory. Usman shares a SWOT on pure gold.

This week, Usman begins a series on performing a SWOT analysis on each color in cubes, analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of each color and what it brings to aligned multicolor pairs, starting with an analysis of white.