Mike Lanigan discusses the impact of the cards of New Phyrexia on Standard’s Vampire archetype.

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.

New Phyrexia just hit Magic Online! If you’re gearing up for a Pauper Daily take-down, Geoff Matteson has the scoop on the 10 best Pauper commons in the set!

We get back to the Hunt with a all new GR aggro list developed by Kellen’s new mtg team. Fast kills are the name of the game in this deck feature.

Jesse Onland discusses the explosiveness of Mono-Green Infect in Pauper online, a tuned sideboard and its future with New Phyrexia.

Gotta love the bad guys, this week Kellen goes into the ichor oiled waters and tries an assortment of standard deck lists involving infect. Who says your opponent’s at 20?

Alan had also brought along the shell for Summoning Trap, which is a deck I had seen and liked initially. After looking at the deck laid out – I figured an audible was in order. Why? I simply wasn’t going to win the tournament with Faeries, so my best chance was to change decks.

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

This week Gregory takes his first stab at a new extended deck, but soon discovers there are some important things you should think about when approaching this format.

In a special holiday-timed post, Usman breaks down two of the latest presents from our glorious Wizards overlords and shares some of the key steps he takes in making the most of every look at cards for cubes!

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