Wanting to give the newest and mono-Blackiest cards a chance to shine, Gregory Marques walks us through his current project.

With the exception of Splinter-Twin, however, the new metagame is very similar to the metagame before rotation.  Edgar Flores won the first SCG Open with NPH legal with a UW CawBlade list that looked very similar to the pre-rotation lists. In this metagame there are a number of cards that are being underplayed, in my opinion, and here are the top 5.

Arthur’s first article for Quiet Speculation is a great and thought provoking look at the next expansion, Mirrodin Besieged. His inventive and sensible evaluations of the cards and potential interactions will serve every reader well in the coming days and months events.

Corbin Hosler keeps you up-to-the-minute on Besieged spoilers and provides a guide on what cards to trade for this weekend!

Again this week Kellen Huber goes into the extended format with a darker side to the format with a new BR deck.

This week, Josh Lalo takes a preliminary look at Extended and discusses some potential shakeups in the Eternal formats.

This week Stephen takes a look at news from the 2011 World Championship, and breaks down how each formats prices will be affected by the results, and even shows one of the new Mirrodin Besieged cards for us!