Mike Lanigan surveys the last huzzah of Standard brewing before rotation, the decks to come out of Worlds weekend. He also updates Aristocrats 3.0 to address the latest changes.
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The full M14 spoiler is out, and David Schumann pores through it for Eternal playables and cards likely to impact Eternal markets.
Jason Alt recounts the events from a week of shop crawls, record-breaking Grands Prix and a spotlight on WoTC’s official coverage.
Mike Lanigan takes two popular Standard decks and mashes them together, peanut-butter-and-chocolate-like. Read on for the resulting brew.
Mike Lanigan brews up a Varolz Jund deck that aims to take advantage of the new legendary scavenger. With cards like Vexing Devil and Diregraf Ghoul, it doesn’t take much to make him a monster.
Mike Lanigan brings us his regularly scheduled top ten article with his pick for Constructed hits out of Dragon’s Maze.
Mike Lanigan analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of a version of The Aristocrats he played at a recent PTQ, and suggests a few alterations.
When we’re in a Magic slump, it can be helpful to go back to the drawing board. Mike Lanigan explains how to challenge your own assumptions about a metagame or deck.
Mike Lanigan surveys the recent field of tier-one Standard decks and suggests Gruul Midrange as a possible contender.
Mike Lanigan examines some interesting tweaks of Standard decks built to attack the metagame from a different position.
Ryan checks in with some initial thoughts on the directions Modern, Pauper, and Standard are heading.
The Legacy metagame continues to turn in on itself and Ryan’s had enough of it. Just get ’em dead!
David Schumann overviews the major staples of the Legacy format, and discusses the likelihood of reprints and price changes for each.