When players build new decks, they often skip straight to playtesting. David E. explains why that’s like skipping from concept design to full product release.

Joe AKA Beardy takes a look at the current Commander ban list and the rationale for determining bannings. Is there anything that is safe to unban?

Emotions. Whether we’re speculating on Magic cards or stocks, we all have to handle emotions in order to make optimal choices. This week Sig explores examples where emotion led to poor investments to help avoid these pitfalls in the future.

The banning of Deathrite Shaman may be the most significant in Legacy history. How will this impact the marketplace – and which cards should we be buying?

Amonkhet and Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons has spawned a new Commander deck that has sent many cards spiking…

We’re seeing a clear rock-paper-scissors metagame develop in Standard, which means the staples are unlikely to change. Brian looks at some cards to pick up if you haven’t already.

Speculation and market investment in Magic is in its Golden Era right now. We have access to information at a speed that we never had before in Magic. If you’re spying for new tech, you don’t have to wait for a tournament report on the Dojo or read about it a month later in Inquest – you can hustle over to GGSlive and watch Kibler cast Huntmaster of the Fells in real-time. This article is about Magic speculation and price bubbles in what I am calling the “early modern” era.

Dissension, the third (and chronically-misspelled) set in Ravnica, showcased the remaining three guilds. We were introduced to the hellbent Rakdos, the gene-splicing Simic and the board-stalling Azorius guilds. Ravnica block is good for a couple money rares, but it didn’t go as casually deep as I thought it would when I first thought about the block. Dissension has a few nice tournament staples aside from the obvious shocklands – let’s take a look at the set!