Carlos scours Avacyn Restored for some potential Commander sleepers, then walks us through a budget version of Balthor the Defiled.

I love doing my financial recaps of older sets where I mine the expensive cards, but going back further is a little harder in two ways. First, there are just so few good cards in older sets. Second, the good ones don’t often turn over, so it’s hard to establish prices. Luckily, Mirage Block was the first “modern” block and it brought in some great spells that wizards still sling today. Let’s take a walk through time as we re-acquaint ourselves with the block. Below is a list of some of the choice picks from the block; I left out the cards worth under two dollars, leaving only the prime cards on the list. There are some cards in here that I guarantee will surprise you.

Carlos continues the theme of expanding on other people’s Commander decks, this time bringing us some flashback action with Dralnu, Lich Lord.

As a rule Carlos isn’t a fan of countermagic, but this weeks he goes off the deep end with a deck that tries to counter all the spells! Check out Ertai, the Corrupted and his horde of Merfolk minions!

This week Carlos Gutierrez takes a turn toward the macabre. Dead creatures are everywhere, and Kresh and Company are right in the middle of the Morbid mess!

Carl’s financial insights this week are of a meditative variety. How do we know when it’s right to tap into our “just in case” blue-chip cards? And how do we justify selling those precious, sentimental cards if it is?

A new style where you make the calls! Join Carl’s interactive learning and get involved in deciding which end of a trade you’d want to be on.

Who lives in some value inside your deck? Cromat! Cromat! Who’s Carlos commanding this week for us? Cromat! Cromat!

This is the pilot for “How I Met My Variance” and you can catch it right here!

Breaking up is hard to do. Breaking things in Commander is easy. Carlos is back with a Gifts Ungiven deck, minus the Gifts. Really!

Neale lines up a howling good time without laying a finger on a Werewolf. It’s new-school Commander all the way!

The Devil’s come to collect his due: everything you own for the next six cards.

Mike responds to the SCG and Wizards announcements, offers praise to the joy of playing Legacy’s Valakut Lands and makes calls for the upcoming SCG Legacy Open.