This year’s Modern season departs with one last huzzah, GP San Diego. Mike Lanigan looks over decklists and discusses the last-minute developments.

Lots of discussion has surfaced recently about price spikes in the MTG market. Jared Elick explains the important role speculators play in stabilizing artificially inflated prices.

Gyre Sage has tripled in price this past week. How often does this happen on Wall Street? Sigmund describes why the two differ in this regard and provides some insights into how the market can behave.

Mike Lanigan ranks the top ten cards to come out of Gatecrash, to see how the set will impact Constructed formats.

David Schumann continues his series on Modern and Legacy staples, this time looking at commons and uncommons to see which are likely to get reprinted.

Mike battled in the Modern GP in Chicago this weekend with Naya Pod. Read on to hear about his matches, and how a couple spicy singleton inclusions fared.

This week Ryan reveals the most important rule when attempting to build a new deck.

Corbin Hosler offers a detailed breakdown of the Top 8 results from the Modern GP: Yokohama, and identifies several excellent opportunities for traders!

Grand Prix: Yokohama was this past weekend, attended by over 1,500 players battling for prizes and glory. Importantly, they did battle with Modern decks, which is good for Insiders. Modern is popular enough on the tournament level to drive prices and many of the cards in the set are old enough that it’s hard to track them down. They get expensive or hard to find. Ergo, it’s a good field to get action on, especially because many of the lower-tier decks still have good money rares in them that you can trade into. This week, we’ll look at the Grand Prix results and analyze them for Modern play and speculation.

Mike relates the tale of his exciting journey into the world of Legacy. Read on if you’ve ever wanted to break in to Eternal but didn’t know how.

This week, we dig into Ravnica! The City of Guilds brings a huge pile of big monsters, expensive lands and power uncommons. Join me and find out what cards are secretly worth money, what chase rare has been losing value, and what card pushed big design challenges!