With Battle for Zendikar hitting tournaments in October, it’s important that Modern players invest in the old staples that are sure to rise with BFZ’s release. This article gives you the five pickups you need to check out.

Doug Linn tries to get a bead on the new format by examining the outgoing class. What can we learn from this last week of Standard?

David Schumann covers the MTG Stock Watch, with an analysis of the biggest gainers and losers in the recent weeks.

Adam identifies trends behind the upward movement of some MTGO Modern cards, and discusses what that might mean for their paper versions.

With the proliferation in recent years of casual-targeted products like Commander 2014, Corbin Hosler believes the rules about safe investments have changed. He explains what our new guidelines should be.

Sylvain Lehoux goes down the list of cards he’s acquiring or watching this week, with the accompanying rationale for each.

Carlos finally shares his all-time favorite Commander deck: Kemba, Kha Regent. Read on to see how this idiosyncratic and time-tested deck functions.

This week Carlos delves into some of the more obscure or “unplayable” Commanders in the format in order to see what they have to offer! What kind of tricksy things can Yomiji do? Let’s find out!

In the last segment of his artifact extravaganza, Carlos is looking at Dark Ascension and Kataki, War’s Wage. This guy has typically been considered unplayable for Commander; but when you build around his effect, he can be pretty nasty.

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

Sometimes you find the most wonderful treasures in the bargain bin of forgotten Commanders!

Carlos has his Child of Alara deck back, this time covering some sample hands and gameplay! It’s Legacy-lite, Commander style, with everyone’s favorite nuclear infant!