Sometimes, decks have a pretty solid theme and plan. When you’re building the Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician deck you know it’s going to be both a burning blade of doom and gooey pile of in-your-own-face explosions. See what Carlos has been cooking with for for weeks!

Corbin Hosler evaluates the impact Magic 2012 will have on the market, and provides the weekly update on the Prediction Tracker!

Last week I played in a standard tournament for four [card]Jace, the Mind Sculptor[/card]s. I played SparkBlade, a list very similar to the one in my last article.

Two weeks ago we covered the essentials of a called shot and went in depth on the topic of small gains. This article will go further into the belly of the beast on another type of called shot, the “wild call”.

Neale’s back with a new deck to tune! He starts with a controlling Korlash build and ends fawning over Dralnu and Jin-Gitaxias. You’ll have to read to find out why!

What do Richard Garfield, the Unhinged set, and the Social Contract of the Commander format have in common? Jules breaks breaks down some Mental Magic and social interactions!

Corbin Hosler explains how to get the most information out of the Prediction Tracker and looks in on the Tracker in its second week!

It was not until the entire top eight had four copies of Jace the Mind Sculptor in their main deck that the talks became serious. We all knew nothing would happen then because New Phyrexia was yet to be released, in printed form at least. But now, the release has come and gone, players have adopted some new cards into their decks, and a new deck or two have made tournament appearances. So, what’s changed since then?

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.

Corbin Hosler launches the Quiet Speculation Prediction Tracker, a one-stop shop for all your card pricing questions. Available for one week without charge to non-Insiders!

Chad revisits Standard to maximize value during PTQ season.

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?

In a singleton format, why does everyone’s deck look the same? This HAS to be fixed.