Dragons of Tarkir enters its second week of Standard play with a strong showing for the set at SCG: Syracuse. While we haven’t seen all-out epic dragonlord battles in the sky, several staples are already emerging in the set. This week we’ll dig into the trends and highlight your trading steps for this week.

Danny Brown has been using PucaTrade a lot since his last article on the subject. He explains how it can be an essential complement to buylisting, and covers the major benefits and concerns.

The Standard metagame is one of the most diverse we’ve seen in a long time. Mike Lanigan pores over the seemingly infinite viable archetypes right now, highlighting some interesting ones that appeared at SCG DC.

Considering the ideal opening of a new deck can lead you down different paths in deckbuilding. Mike Lanigan breaks down the major Standard contenders according to their opening plan, and explains what that says about their strategy.

Yuuya Watanabe’s Jeskai Tokens deck is an amazing innovation in Standard. Find out where Ryan thinks the deck might have room to improve and the direction he thinks the archetype should go!

Crafting an aggressive deck can be hard in a world full of Siege Rhinos, but several strategies have proven successful. Mike Lanigan looks over recent contenders and suggests his own Mono-Black Abzan build.

Adam scoured the internet for the news you can’t afford to miss. See what he learned about Standard and Legacy movements!

Today Corbin digs through the Pro Tour coverage to see which decks were flying under the radar, and comments on where he sees price hikes from the weekend settling.

With the upcoming release of Khans of Tarkir, Standard will lose the bulk of its current card pool. Adam outlines which strategies are expected to stick around, what cards may see a rise in popular, and how you can prepare and profit from the rotation.

Mike Lanigan surveys the new decks to come from the Pro Tour, as well as the price changes in key cards as we near rotation.

Legion Loyalist beats the crap out of Pack Rat. and Obelisk is not a fair card. That’s all you need to know!

While Journey Into Nyx is unlikely to unseat the top decks in Standard, it does enable a few new strategies. Mike Lanigan investigates.

Danny details the ways he is able to use every part of the animal, when it comes to drafting with a mind for value.